Gartnischberg

Gartnischberg IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Potthoff forest grave
location	North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	105.78 ha
Identifier	NSG GT-032
WDPA ID	318425
Geographical location	52 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '24 "  N , 8 ° 23' 3"  E
Setup date	2001
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Gütersloh district

The Gartnischberg nature reserve is 105.78 hectares in size in the city of Halle (Westphalia) . It is listed with the number GT-032 and is an FFH proposal area .

In particular, it was designated for the preservation of wild animal and plant species from beech forests and hedge structures , which are interspersed with grassland and are partly characterized as orchid-beech forests .

In addition, warmth- loving plant species of the herbaceous layer and isolated dry grass with the typical animal species occur in the light coppice . The area also includes a valuable complex of former small quarries.

Forest graves

In the nature reserve there are several contiguous forest graves that are unique in Westphalia.

In 1771, the Prussian King Friedrich II decreed that bourgeois people who owned their own houses were also given the status of small landowners. This was associated with several privileges, including the fact that families could create private graves. 118 people or families benefited from this in Halle, but only a few of them actually set up private cemeteries or forest burial sites.

Most of the graves that still exist today can be found in the Gartnischberg nature reserve, other graves are in the Knüll - Storkenberg nature reserve or near the former restaurant Grünenwalde.

At the site there are still 34 grave monuments, almost all of which are made of Teutoburg sandstone and are therefore heavily weathered. There is also a pavilion in the forest, which for a long time was mistakenly viewed as a chapel .

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Individual evidence

literature

• Dierk Conrady: Niederwald and Hochwald - a faunistic-ecological comparison . Ed .: State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia. ( nrw.de [PDF]).

Web links

• "Gartnischberg" nature reserve (GT-032) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• NSG Gartnischberg on the pages of the Gütersloh district
• Photos of the forest graves and further information - burgdame.de
• World Database on Protected Areas - Gartnischberg (English)