FFH area of the Stodthagen natural forest and adjacent raised bogs
The FFH area Naturwald Stodthagen and adjacent raised bogs is a NATURA 2000 protected area in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein . The Kaltenhofer Moor and the Stodthagen Forest are important local recreation areas. They are accessed through a network of trails created by the Nature Conservation Foundation. The Felmer Moor has no paths; a paved path runs through the Stauner Moor sub-area, which is used by walkers.
Geographical location and natural space
The FFH area consists of three spatially separated areas. Overall, it is 3.21 square kilometers and is located about 10 kilometers north of Kiel in parts of the municipalities of Felm , Dänischenhagen and Osdorf in the center of the " Danish welfare ".
The three sub-areas are the Stodthagen forest with the immediately adjacent Kaltenhofer Moor and the Felmer and Stauner Moor with adjacent grassland.
The natural area is part of the hilly, young moraine landscape of the Schleswig-Holstein hill country. It is characterized by flat peaks and numerous depressions without drainage, which favored the post-Ice Age moor development. The loamy, waterlogged soils consist mainly of pseudogleye and parabrown soils from boulder clay to marl .
The Kaltenhofer Moor
The Kaltenhofer Moor was created by wetting a soft ice age dead ice hole. The peatland began to grow there about 5000 years ago during the Atlantic , a post-glacial warm period. To date, the peat layers and the lake and swamp sediments below have reached a thickness of nine meters.
The Stodthagen forest
The area of the Stodthagen forest has remained unchanged in size since around 1780. A clearing spreads out on the eastern edge of the forest during the Bronze Age , while the center has consisted of forest for around 11,000 years. According to the state of Schleswig-Holstein, this is particularly noteworthy, as Schleswig-Holstein was almost completely deforested except for around 3 percent of residual forests. The Stodthagen forest estate has been managing the forest for almost 100 years. During the time of National Socialism, the Reich Labor Service and later prisoners of war and inmates dug up to two meters deep drainage ditches. The Nature Conservation Foundation , a foundation under public law established in 1978 by the State of Schleswig-Holstein to promote nature conservation by securing land and based in Molfsee near Kiel, acquired land from the Stodthagen forest estate in 2000. In the same year, the foundation had the formerly drained boggy depressions of the forest again waterlogged by dams.
The Felmer Moor
The partial area of the Felmer Moor consists of the eponymous Felmer Moor and adjacent forest and grassland areas. It is about 66 acres. It mainly consists of degenerated raised bogs and swamp forests. It continues to be drained, which is why bog and bog forests are mostly in poor condition. The grassland areas on the edge of the moor are predominantly heavily drained and intensively cultivated.
The Stauner Moor
The partial area of the Stauner Moor is about 31 hectares. It consists largely of grassland, hedgerows and conifers, which together cover an area of 20 hectares. there are also around 1.2 hectares of alder and willow quarries and 6.2 hectares of broken birch forest. Around 3.4 hectares of the area were developed as a habitat type at the time of mapping .
Flora and fauna
Because of the large number of habitat types that occur and its high value, the area is considered a habitat for rare, strictly protected species. The natural forest consists primarily of grove beech and woodruff beech forests, some of which are more than 100 years old , in which there are numerous moist, partly muddy depressions and areas overgrown with conifers. The drained by the draining peatlands is afforested with Sitka spruce and later with red spruce up. Chance were larch and Douglas fir planted. Since the purchase of the forest property by the Nature Conservation Foundation, the deciduous forests have no longer been used for forestry purposes, while the conifers are to be removed gradually by 2020. Without human influence, blackberry bushes and elderberries as well as pioneer forests with peat birch and mountain ash as well as stands of beech and oak develop on the open spaces.
The area of silted bogs is dominated by rewetted and renatured hand peat cuttings , particularly in the area of the “ Kaltenhofer Moor ” nature reserve and the Felmer Moor . At the edge of the near-natural and open raised bogs and in extensive, older peat cuttings, a bog forest has developed in the form of peat moss- rich birch quarry forests.
In the area of the Stauner Moor, alder and birch forests dominate due to the strong drainage. The grassland areas are severely impaired by the drainage, so that a pipe grass meadow was only preserved in a small section.
The moors and forests of the FFH area are the habitat of protected species such as crested newt , bog frog and tree frog , fire-bellied toad and the dragonfly species great moss damsel . Birds such as the honey buzzard and crane have also been spotted in the area .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Management plan for the fauna-flora-habitat area DE-1526-353 “Natural forest of Stodthagen and adjacent raised bogs”. (PDF) In: http://www.umweltdaten.landsh.de/ . Ministry for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, December 30, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Stodthagen natural forest and adjacent raised bogs. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b State of Schleswig-Holstein: Stodthagen natural forest and adjacent raised bogs (FFH DE 1526-353). (PDF) In: http://www.umweltdaten.landsh.de/ . State of Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 25 ′ 22.6 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 14.8" E