Flachstal
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 The Flachstal in May 2008 |
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| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 15 '26 " N , 10 ° 29' 21" E | |
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| Type | Dry valley | |
| length | 4 km | |
The Flachstal is a four kilometer long dry valley in the north of the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia .
Location and course
The Flachstal begins not far north of Kaisershagen at around ( 355 m above sea level ), initially runs from north-west to south-east and after a kilometer and a half makes a bend to the south-south-west. It ends west of the railway underpass on the eastern flank of the Unstrut valley at the south-eastern exit of Reiser . In this area of the northwest Thuringian Muschelkalkplatten runs an episodic brook that has sunk about 50 m into the undulating Muschelkalk plateau.
description
The Steingraben in the Flachstal valley drains periodically after the snow has melted in spring and after periods of rain or heavy rain events. It flows into the Unstrut on the left . Most of the year it lies dry and has a stony, blocky stream bed made of rounded limestone rubble. Corresponding fossils are sometimes found . On the slopes of the valley, the rock layers of the Upper and Middle Muschelkalks are cut. The Flachstal is also an important cold air drainage path for the surrounding, intensely arable plateaus.
The steep valley flanks have been grazed with sheep for many years. Already the measuring table shows the typical wasteland signature for sheep drifts. The grazing with herds of sheep , to which goats were always mixed, also took place when the Flachstal was used by the National People's Army and later by the Bundeswehr as a military training area. At the time of the military training area, the Flachstal was traversed with several herds in order to keep the shooting lanes free from emerging woody growth. The areas were also burned down every year.
vegetation
Characteristic of the Flachstal are extensive gentian-schiller grass lawns on the valley slopes, which are strongly structured by privet-sloe bushes on the valley flanks and elderberry-sloe bushes on the valley floor. There occur along the stone trench small areas and riparian forest galleries and willows on. The steep eastern slopes were used at the time of the military training area. Sometimes planted with forest and black pine, which are atypical for the Flachstal. The rear Thalholz is a near-natural forest barley -beech forest with a species-rich herb layer and transitions to red beech dry forest in the steep slope areas.
natural reserve
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Flachstal
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 Flachstal in April 1996 |
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| location | Thuringia , Germany |
| surface | 18.7 ha |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 16 ' N , 10 ° 29' E |
| Setup date | May 25, 1999 |
Due to the occurrence of rare flora and fauna in need of protection, the Flachstal has been designated as a nature reserve since May 25, 1999 on an area of 187.6 hectares .
Since then it has also been one of the Thuringian FFH areas of the European Natura 2000 protected area system . The traditional grazing with sheep and goats is still carried out by local shepherds and serves to keep the area open.
The z. Sometimes rare occurrences of plant and animal species in dry, warm and structurally rich open landscapes of the hill country over limestone. A total of 220 vascular plant species as well as numerous breeding birds and butterfly species have been recorded for the area. The main protection goal is faunistic species protection . It is all the more important to maintain a structurally rich open landscape as a habitat for the rare animal species found there.
Web links
- Nature reserves (status: 03/2018) - Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis on tlug-jena.de, accessed on February 22, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Eichsfeldkreis, LK Nordhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 1. Erfurt 1999.
- ↑ Königlich Prussische Landesaufnahme, TK25 - sheet 2740, sheet name: Mühlhausen in Thür. , Berlin 1854.
- ↑ Nature reserves in the Unstrut-Hainich district: Flachstal. Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), 2011, accessed on April 14, 2011 : "The NSG 201" Flachstal "is located in the natural areas 3.2 (Hainich - Dün - Hainleite) and 5.1 (Innerthüringer Ackerhügelland). A permanent spring emerges from a niche east of the Goldberg at the left foot of the slope. The area includes extensively grazed complexes of limestone semi-arid grassland (gentian-schiller grass lawn), fresh meadows and bushes with a species-rich fauna. The midwife toad, for example, is located on the eastern edge of its range and has one of its last natural reproductive waters in Germany in the course of the stream and its pools. ... "
