Holy Halls (Mecklenburg)

	Sacred Halls Nature Reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Old beech in the Heilige Hallen nature reserve
location	Southwest of Feldberg in Mecklenburg County Mecklenburg Lake District
surface	67 ha
Identifier	LU MV 7 (PDF; 217 kB)
WDPA ID	163598
Geographical location	53 ° 20 ' N , 13 ° 22' E Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '31 " N , 13 ° 22' 12" E
Setup date	February 24, 1938
administration	LUNG

The Holy Halls are an old beech forest in Germany that is protected as a total reserve . They are located in the municipality of Feldberger Seenlandschaft in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg , 3.5 kilometers west of the Feldberg district and southwest of the Lüttenhagen district. The nature reserve is part of the Feldberger Seenlandschaft nature park .

In the middle of the 19th century, when the name "Holy Halls" came up for the area, the forest still had a hall-like character. In the meantime, younger trees have grown up between the "Methusalems". Since some of the trees, which are up to 350 years old and 53 meters high, have already exceeded their biological age, the forest now has a high proportion of dead wood . The area also includes several pools , in which ponds, kettle bogs and birch forests have formed.

geology

The holy halls are located in the area of the main terminal moraine of the Vistula glacial period . The domed relief created by the deposition of debris and several so-called dead ice holes have been preserved to this day.

history

In the middle of the 19th century, the Strelitz Grand Duke Georg , impressed by the huge, columnar trees, ordered this forest area to be preserved for all time. He paid tribute to the place with the poem In the memory of the beech forest near Lüttenhagen . The 25 hectare core area of the forest was placed on the list of Mecklenburg's natural monuments as early as 1908 and has been a nature reserve since February 24, 1938 . In 1993 the reserve was expanded from 25 to 65.5 hectares. There has been no management or removal of deadwood since around 1950, only the paths are cleared after trees have fallen.

tourism

The holy halls are accessed by a hiking trail.

Picture gallery

European beech forest
Dying beeches
Dead beech trunk
Kesselmoor with cotton grass

literature

Klaus Borrmann : Holy Halls currently. 70 years of NSG (1938–2008) . In: Labus , Volume 28/2008, pp. 67-76.
Alexis Scamoni: Holy Halls . In: Nature and nature conservation in Mecklenburg . Volume 3/1965, pp. 37-50 and pp. 69-70.

Web links

Commons : Sacred Halls Nature Reserve - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files