Griesheimer dune

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Griesheimer dune and oak grove
Griesheimer Düne (2012) with blooming evening primrose and hair awl grass

Griesheimer Düne (2012) with blooming evening primrose and hair awl grass

location Darmstadt , Hesse
surface 46.29 ha
WDPA ID 81757
Natura 2000 ID DE6117301
FFH area 46.29 ha
Geographical location 49 ° 51 '  N , 8 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '31 "  N , 8 ° 34' 10"  E
Griesheim Dune (Hesse)
Griesheimer dune
Setup date 1953, expanded 1983, 1994
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Griesheim Dune (2020)

The Griesheimer Düne , full official name: Griesheimer Düne und Eichwäldchen , is an approximately 46 hectare nature and landscape protection area near Griesheim in the former Griesheim and now Darmstadt district and houses rare animals and plants that occur in calcareous sand and steppe areas. For this reason it has been designated as an FFH area since 2000 and as a European bird sanctuary "Griesheimer Sand" since 2004.

Special birds like the wood lark , the wheatear , the stonechat or the Hoopoe live here.

The nature reserve is also home to a number of endangered insect species, such as the gyroscopic wasp , the walker , the great meadow ant , the Italian beautiful bug , as well as numerous other protected species of digger wasps , predatory flies , ants , short-antennae terrors and beetles .

The typical plant species of this landscape include steppe grasses and flowering plants of the sandy grassland . The sand and steppe plants that thrive together are among the most endangered plant formations in Central Europe and are under European protection.

It is a landscape that was created in the last glacial period by sand drifts. The landscape in the "Griesheimer Sand" has been subjected to intensive military use in the past decades (→ Griesheim military training area ), as a result of which the area was kept largely free of trees , which benefited the steppe vegetation.

Griesheimer dune and oak grove. Photo in the oak grove.

The asparagus cultivation in this sandy area expanded enormously and destroyed large parts of the once vast dune. Bulldozers cleared some hills . What is left of this landscape today has been under protection since 1953.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natura 2000 Standard data form DE6117301 Griesheimer Düne und Eichwäldchen , last accessed on May 29, 2015
  2. ↑ Annex 3a, Conservation goals for FFH area 6117-301 Griesheimer Düne and Eichwäldchen ( memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Hessian Ministry of the Environment, last accessed May 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ Appendix 5, bird sanctuary 6117-401 Griesheimer Sand ( memento of October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Hessian Ministry of the Environment, last accessed May 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Donkeys maintain the landscape in FAZ from February 6, 2015, page 41

Web links

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