Hirschacker and Dossenwald

	Hirschacker and Dossenwald nature and landscape protection areas IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Dune with pine trees
location	Mannheim , Schwetzingen , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	128.9 ha
Identifier	2,171
WDPA ID	163696
Geographical location	49 ° 25 ' N , 8 ° 34' E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '8 " N , 8 ° 33' 41" E
Sea level	from 100 m to 114 m
Setup date	December 16, 1993
administration	Karlsruhe Regional Council

Hirschacker und Dossenwald is a nature reserve and a supplementary landscape protection area between Mannheim and Schwetzingen in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the natural area Schwetzinger Sand and includes one of the most important drift sand areas in Baden-Württemberg. The dune range has calcareous dunes up to 13 meters high, steeply sloping to the east. In the west is the drifted sand field and in the east the Neckar alluvial fan .

Characteristics

The area was designated as a nature reserve by ordinance on December 16, 1993 and is managed under the protected area number 2.171 at the Karlsruhe Regional Council. It has an area of 128.9 hectares, 67.5 hectares of which belong to the district of Mannheim and 61.4 hectares to the Rhein-Neckar district. The nature reserve is classified in IUCN Category IV, a biotope and species protection area. The WDPA ID is 163696 and corresponds to the European CDDA code and the EUNIS no.

The protective purpose "is the preservation and promotion:

a pronounced inland dune range with the adjacent drifted sand fields and forest strips of the Neckar alluvial fan;
the open sandy areas with their specific sandy lawn flora and fauna as well as a unique occurrence of lichen;
the patchy pine forests and the geophyte-rich oak-hornbeam forests on the heavy soils of the Neckar alluvial fan;
of the plant and animal species adapted to these biotope types that are worthy of protection. "

Flora and fauna

The area is almost completely forested, mainly with pines but also with robinia and mixed deciduous forests . High-voltage roads and large clearings in the south of Hirschacker are free of trees due to their earlier military use. Here grow gentian , sand lawns with silver grass and sand straw flower and dwarf shrub heather with heather . Typical sand dwellers are the blue-winged wasteland insect , ant lion , dune tiger beetle and gyroscopic wasp . An oak - hornbeam forest grows on the Neckar alluvial fan with its loamy soil .

Surname

The name "Dossenwald" is derived from "Dosse", the old German word for pine.

Partial fencing

Special protective measures

Due to increasing disturbances from visitors, the Karlsruhe Regional Council implemented a partial barrier by fencing in early 2020 to protect disturbance-sensitive animals and plants and set up visitor guidance systems over a total of 1200 meters. In addition, 850 meters of sand and dirt paths were removed and trails were blocked with the help of transverse trees - this corresponds to around two thirds of the previous paths.

literature

Thomas Breunig, Siegfried Demuth: Naturführer Mannheim , Verlag Regionalkultur 2000, ISBN 978-3-89735-132-5 , pp. 88/89

Web links

Commons : Hirschacker and Dossenwald - collection of images, videos and audio files

Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
Profile of the landscape protection area in the protected area directory of the LUBW

Map of the nature reserve 2.171 of the LUBW

Ordinance of the Mannheim Mayor's Office on the "Unterer Dossenwald" landscape protection area of October 28, 1986, PDF (207 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
^ Ordinance of the Karlsruhe Regional Council. State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, December 19, 1985, accessed on November 20, 2014 .
↑ Press release of the City of Mannheim “Fit through Mannheim's nature: New running routes in the Dossenwald”. June 16, 2016, accessed April 2, 2017 .
↑ Schwetzinger Zeitung of January 17, 2020, page 10. Massive fences should guide the visitors .

[NSGSteckbrief-1] Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas

[DE_BFN-Karten-2] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[3] Ordinance of the Karlsruhe Regional Council. State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, December 19, 1985, accessed on November 20, 2014 .

[4] Press release of the City of Mannheim “Fit through Mannheim's nature: New running routes in the Dossenwald”. June 16, 2016, accessed April 2, 2017 .

[5] Schwetzinger Zeitung of January 17, 2020, page 10. Massive fences should guide the visitors .