FFH area Bergwiesen near Winterberg
The FFH area mountain meadows at Winterberg is a 501 ha large FFH area with the number 4717 to 305 in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Winterberg . The area was reported to the EU by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2000. The FFH area consists of six separate areas around Winterberg, Altastenberg , Lenneplätze , Neuastenberg and Mollseifen . The six sub-areas are partially cut through by federal, country and district roads.
Information on partial areas
The areas of several nature reserves and landscape protection areas belong to the FFH area with the entire area or partial areas. To Winterberg include the conservation areas nature reserve mountain meadows in Winterberg , nature reserve Nameless-valley system , nature reserve Upper Ruhr Valley and the conservation area stallion head to FFH area. Around Altastenberg the nature reserve Bergwiesen bei Altastenberg , nature reserve Brandtenberg and landscape reserve Westfalenhang belong to it. The nature reserve Bergwiesen bei Neuastenberg (Winterberg) , the nature reserve Odeborn valley system and the landscape reserve Postwiese and lean grassland near Neuastenberg are located around Neuastenberg .
description
In the FFH area, there are contiguous, supra-regionally significant grassland areas in valley systems and on slopes and mountain tops around the town of Winterberg on the Winterberg plateau with a biotope mosaic of extensive, species-rich wet, wet and lean grassland and grassy grassland, as well as sometimes rare forest communities. The grassland areas are used extensively as meadow and pasture grasslands.
Description in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia: “The northernmost of the total of six individual areas is a section of the Ruhr valley . The Ruhr presents itself in this area as a near-natural, richly structured low mountain range, which flows through a grassland-shaped valley of species-rich meadows and pastures. The Nameless, which is also near-natural, flows south of the Ruhr. Just like the Ruhr, this brook is also lined with near-natural meadows and pastures, some of which are wet. In some places there are moist high perennials on the banks. The remaining areas comprise biotope mosaics made up of extensively used hay meadows, pastures and nebulas on slopes and hilltops. On the north slope of the Brandtenberg near Altastenberg montane Hinsimsen beech forests and pioneer trees grow, which merge into montane tall herbaceous fields on the lower slope. These are characterized by one of the few locations of the alpine milk lettuce in North Rhine-Westphalia. "
Only the meadow pipit has significant occurrences of bird species in the area .
Protective measures
Some areas are owned by the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and are extensively managed in accordance with the requirements of the culture-landscape-maintenance program of the Hochsauerlandkreis.
From 2011 to 2016, the Biological Station Hochsauerlandkreis carried out the LIFE project Mountain Meadows near Winterberg to restore diverse grassland habitats.
See also
literature
- Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority: Landscape plan Winterberg (PDF; 1.4 MB). Meschede 2008, pp. 204-206.
Web links
- FFH area Bergwiesen near Winterberg
- Bergwiesen nature reserve near Altastenberg , part of the FFH area, on the natural treasures side of South Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ↑ FFH area Bergwiesen near Winterberg. (PDF; 1.9 MB) In: naturschutzinformationen.nrw.de. Retrieved on June 17, 2020 (update status 2019).
- ↑ LIFE project mountain meadows near Winterberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 49.4 ″ E