Fischbeker Heide

NSG Fischbeker Heide IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Fischbeker Heide
location	Hamburg , Germany
surface	7.73 km²
WDPA ID	4384
FFH area	7.63 km²
Geographical location	53 ° 27 '  N , 9 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '18 "  N , 9 ° 50' 18"  E
Setup date	July 29, 1958

Pine trees in a heather in the NSG

The Fischbeker Heide is a 773 hectare nature conservation and FFH area in the southwest of Hamburg in the districts of Neugraben-Fischbek and Hausbruch . It comprises a heather and forest landscape which, including the Neugrabener Heide, which is part of the protected area, is the second largest cultural landscape of its kind in Germany after the Lüneburg Heath . Located on the edge of a ridge, in the south is the highest point in Hamburg at 116 meters , the Hasselbrack . A number of preserved archaeological monuments testify to the early settlement of the area.

location

The nature reserve is located in the Harburg district of Hamburg , south of federal highway 73 . In addition to the actual Fischbeker Heide in the Neugraben-Fischbek district ( Fischbek district), it also includes the Neugrabener Heide area in Hausbruch (Neugraben district), with which it is connected in the south. The nature reserve is located in the northern part, or the northern foothills of the Harburg Mountains , also called Black Mountains here , which continue to the south in the area of Lower Saxony . The south and south-west border to the municipalities of Rosengarten and Neu Wulmstorf also forms the border of the nature reserve.

Natural allocation

The Fischbeker Heide belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Lüneburg Heath (No. 64), the main unit Hohe Heide (640) and the sub-unit Wilseder terminal moraine (640.0) to the natural area Black Mountains (640.00).

General

The Schafstall Nature Conservation Information House is located in the heath (coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 12.3 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 1.3 ″  E ), a converted old stable next to a stable building still used for sheep. In the information center run by the Loki Schmidt Foundation and the exhibition there, you can find out everything you need to know about the protected heathland. The sheepfold is also the starting point for the archaeological hiking trail created by the Archaeological Museum Hamburg and maintained as its branch office , which leads to the numerous prehistoric and early historical monuments in the Fischbeker Heide.

The Hamburg Environment Authority made since the late 1980s years by large-scale land clearing for the preservation of the heath in its current form as a cultural landscape . There is also a herd of Heidschnucken in the Fischbeker Heide , without which the Heide would not be able to survive. In addition, it is necessary that it is regularly "decussed", that is, freed from tree shoots, which school classes also take part in.

The Fischbek glider club flies here from its Fischbek glider airfield, which was first used in 1910, and through its activities in its area also contributes to the fact that the heath does not become a forest area.

The bed of the Fischbek, a stream that dried up around 1900 when drinking water was taken, runs through the nature reserve.

Until 2005, the Fischbeker Heide (in Lower Saxony ) was bordered by an extensive military training area, some of which was bought by the City of Hamburg and declared a nature reserve to compensate for other interventions in nature. These extensions of the nature reserve were partially cleared in the spring of 2009 in order to preserve larger heather areas and the open sand areas caused by the use of heavy tanks.

history

Fischbeker dry valley

Originally there were oak and birch forests in the Fischbeker Heide area. The heathland was created by overgrazing between the Stone Age and the Middle Ages.

There are archaeological finds that show that the area was settled as early as the Neolithic Age . Archaeological monuments such as grave and megalithic complexes from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age can still be found there today. These are under monument protection and form the largest contiguous inventory of aboveground monuments in the Hamburg area. These have been made accessible since 1975 via the archaeological hiking trail managed by the Hamburg Archaeological Museum (Helms Museum) . Its restoration was completed in 2002, during which the prehistoric and early tombs were restored and the hiking trail with its 11 stations was signposted up to date.

See also

• Archaeological hiking trail in the Fischbeker Heide

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile Fischbeker Heide (FFH area) ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BfN, area number 2525-301  
2. ^ Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg from Altona to Zollenspieker. The Haspa manual for all districts of the Hanseatic city. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-11333-8 , p. 725.
3. ↑ Nature Conservation Information House Schafstall ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Chronicle of the Fischbek glider club
5. ↑ Monument Protection Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on hamburg.de: Archaeological Finds 6, 25–42, 44–53, 67 and 71–72 in Fischbek ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Fischbeker Heide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city of Hamburg
• Hamburg Nature Conservation Foundation and Loki Schmidt Foundation - Nature Conservation Information House "Schafstall"
• Archaeological Museum Hamburg. Branch office: Archaeological trail
• Monument Protection Office FHH: Archaeological sites in Fischbek
• Page about the Fischbeker Heide with photos
• Fischbeker Heide at NABU