Helstorfer Moor

Helstorfer Moor IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	North-east of Neustadt am Rübenberge , Hanover region , Lower Saxony
surface	417 ha
Identifier	NSG HA 056
WDPA ID	81861
Geographical location	52 ° 32 '  N , 9 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '11 "  N , 9 ° 35' 56"  E
Sea level	from 42.5 to 50 m
Setup date	May 9, 1996
administration	NLWKN

The Helstorfer Moor is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony town of Neustadt am Rübenberge and the municipality of Wedemark in the Hanover region .

description

The nature reserve with the registration number NSG HA 056 is 417  hectares in size. It is part of the FFH area "Helstorfer, Otternhagener and Schwarzes Moor". The nature reserve is located immediately north of the " Otternhagener Moor " nature reserve . To the west it borders on the landscape protection area "Moorgeest". The area has been a nature reserve since May 9, 1996. It replaces the nature reserve of the same name designated in March 1980. The lower responsible nature conservation authority is the Hanover region.

Access to the moor

The nature reserve is located northeast of Neustadt am Rübenberge and west of Mellendorf in the Hanoverian Moorgeest , an ice age geest and ground moraine landscape. It places a high moorland under protection that was created around 4000 years ago.

The Moor was in the past drained and rural Handtorfstiche teilabgetorft. It is characterized by bog and quarry forest , but also open bog areas with bog heather . In the former Handtorfstichen be extended have peat moss - quaking formed companies, which slowly silting and Bult-Schlenken complexes formed. In the peripheral areas, especially in the northeast and southeast, extensively used grassland is also included in the nature reserve. The north-west of the protected area is part of the training area of the Wilhelmstein barracks in Luttmersen .

The area drains through various ditches to the south via the Negenborner Moorgraben in the east and the ditch in front of the Moore in the west to the Neuen Auter and to the north via the Ochsenbeeke to the Jürsenbach.

Development of the area

As part of the LIFE + project “Hannoversche Moorgeest”, several moors on an area of ​​2,240 hectares, including the Helstorfer Moor, are to be ecologically upgraded by 2023. To optimize rainwater retention, existing drainage systems are to be dismantled and new dams and dams are to be built. In addition, areas have already been decussed , small bodies of water released and grassland areas extensified. Information boards inform those interested on site.

Web links

Commons : Helstorfer Moor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Helstorfer Moor" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
• Gärtner, Eberhard: Efforts to preserve the Helstorfer Moor north of Hanover . In: TELMA - reports of the German Society for Moor and Peat Studies . tape 09 , 1979, doi : 10.23689 / fidgeo-3308 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helstorfer Moor , Hannoversche Moorgeest, hannover.de. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
2. ^ Moor protection times four in Wedemark: State Secretary for the Environment Frank Doods visits EU project , press release by the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation, June 29, 2018, accessed on July 2, 2018.