Big fir trees

Nature reserve and forest of great fir trees IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
NSG and Bannwald Große Tannen: dead wood
location	Pfalzgrafenweiler and Seewald in the Freudenstadt district , Baden-Württemberg
surface	14 ha
Identifier	2,026
WDPA ID	81762
Geographical location	48 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '29 "  N , 8 ° 29' 28"  E
Sea level	from 720 m to 750 m
Setup date	March 23, 1939
administration	Karlsruhe Regional Council

Große Tannen is a nature reserve designated by ordinance of March 23, 1939 with the number 2.026 and also a protected forest area of ​​the same name .

location

The protected area is located around 500 meters north of the Kälberbronn district of the Pfalzgrafenweiler community . It is located in the Black Forest-Randplatten natural area and is part of the FFH area no. 7516-341 Freudenstadt Heckengäu .

description

The fir trees found in the area reach heights of up to 51 m, diameters at chest height of over 1.40 m and volumes of over 40 m³. The beech trees also acquire considerable dimensions. The trees are 250-300 years old and the firs are among the oldest and strongest in Germany. According to the appraisal, most of the giant trees were felled in the 1920s, but the area was still considered worthy of protection.

Protection purpose

The fir-beech forest society, which has become rare in the Black Forest, is to be protected.

Spell forest

The protected forest, also designated under the name Große Tannen , by ordinance of the Freiburg Forestry Directorate of October 10, 1989, has a size of 15.26 hectares. It has the protected area number 100051. The protective purpose of the Bannwald is to secure the uninfluenced development of a beech-fir forest ecosystem in the black forest with its animal and plant species and to ensure the scientific observation of the development. The spell forest is almost congruent with the nature reserve.

See also

• List of nature reserves in Baden-Württemberg
• List of nature reserves in the Freudenstadt district
• List of protected forests in Baden-Württemberg

literature

• District Office for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Karlsruhe (Ed.): The nature reserves in the administrative district of Karlsruhe . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-5172-7

Web links

Commons : Great Firs Nature Reserve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of the nature reserve in the protected area directory of the LUBW with protected area ordinance and map
• Profile of the forest in the protected area directory of the LUBW with protected area ordinance and map

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information board of the FA Pfalzgrafenweiler from 1993