Gorse heather in the Irsental near Daleiden

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 4 ″  N , 6 ° 11 ′ 59 ″  E

Gorse heather in the Irsental near Daleiden​

Rhineland-Palatinate

The nature reserve Ginsterheiden in the Irsental near Daleiden is in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The approximately 76 hectare area, which was placed under nature protection in 1987 , extends east of the local community of Daleiden . The district road K 142 crosses the area in the middle. The B 410 runs to the west and north of the area . The Irsen flows to the east and a short distance on the eastern edge of the area .

The purpose of protection is conservation

• the broom pagans in Irsental, the rocky, poor grassland - deciduous forest - and river - ecosystems and various wet and Saumbiotope as habitats of rare, threatened in their existence of species-rich animal and plant communities and
• the fossil-bearing sediment layers for scientific and natural history reasons.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Web links

• World Database on Protected Areas - brooms Gentiles in Irsental in Daleiden (English)
• 23206 Ordinance on the nature reserve "Ginsterheiden im Irsental bei Daleiden" district Bitburg-Prüm of July 24, 1987 (PDF) on naturschutz.rlp.de