Upper Rhine east Waldshut

	FFH area ; "Upper Rhine east Waldshut"
	Wutachmünd
location	Hohentengen am Hochrhein , Küssaberg and Waldshut-Tiengen in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier	DE-8416-341
WDPA ID	555522258
Natura 2000 ID	DE8416341
FFH area	2.681 km²
Geographical location	47 ° 35 ' N , 8 ° 20' E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '46 " N , 8 ° 20' 13" E
Setup date	January 1, 2005
administration	Regional council Freiburg

The FFH area Hochrhein Ostl. Waldshut is a protected area (protected area identifier DE-8416-341) in the German state of Baden-Württemberg that was registered in 2005 by the Freiburg Regional Council according to Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) . With the ordinance of the regional council of Freiburg on the definition of areas of Community importance of October 25, 2018, the area was determined.

location

The 268.13 hectare protected area belongs to the natural areas 120- Alb-Wutach-area and 160- Hochrheintal within the natural spatial main units 12- Gäuplatten in Neckar- and Tauberland and 16- Hochrheing area .

It covers parts of the High Rhine Valley between Waldshut and the state border with Switzerland and is on the markings of 3 cities and municipalities:

Hohentengen on the Upper Rhine = 136.7445 ha, 51%
Küssaberg = 93.8443 ha, 35%
Waldshut-Tiengen = 40.2189 ha, 15%

Description and purpose of protection

The protected area is a near-natural section of the Upper Rhine with alluvial forest and reed beds. Sloping forests, relict pine forest and dry grass on steep slopes as well as the Hohentengener Ried with species-rich meadows and small-scale, regionally very rare limestone bogs.

Habitat classes

(general characteristics of the area) (percentage of total area)

Information according to the standard data sheet from the Official Journal of the European Union



N06 - inland waters (standing and flowing)			37%
N07 - moors, swamps, bank vegetation			2%
N09 - dry grassland, steppes			1 %
N10 - Moist and mesophilic grassland			25%
N15 - Other farmland			10%
N16 - deciduous forest			13%
N17 - coniferous forest			1 %
N19 - mixed forest			5%
N21 - non-forest areas with wooden plants (fruit and olive groves, vineyards)			5%
N19 - miscellaneous			1 %

Habitat types

According to Appendix 1 of the ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council on the definition of areas of community importance (Habitats Ordinance) of October 25, 2018, the following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU code	Habitat type (official name)	Short name	Hectares
3260	Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion	Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation	29.60
6110	Gap basophilic or lime pioneer lawn (Alysso-Sedion albi)	Lime pioneer lawn	0.07
6210	Near-natural dry lime lawns and their stages of shrubbery (Festuco-Brometalia)	Lime grassland - orchid-rich stands	5.99
6410	Pipe grass meadows on lime-rich soil, peaty and clayey-silty soils (Molinion caeruleae)	Pipe grass meadows	2.02
6430	Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level	Moist tall herbaceous vegetation	0.00
6510	Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)	Lean, lowland hay meadows	15.35
7220	Tufa springs (cratoneurion)	Tufa springs	0.04
7230	Lime-rich fens	Lime-rich fens	0.14
8210	Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation	Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation	0.15
8310	Caves that are not open to tourists	Caves and balms	0.01
9130	Woodruff beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum)	Woodruff beech forest	11.90
9170	Bedstraw-oak-hornbeam forest Galio-Carpinetum	Bedstraw-oak-hornbeam forest	0.70
91E0	Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)	Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow	1.65
91U0	Pine forests of the Sarmatian steppe	Steppe pine forests	0.04

Contiguous protected areas

The FFH area overlaps with two landscape protection areas . A section near Waldshut is located in the Southern Black Forest Nature Park . The nature reserves

No. 3059 - Pulsatilla location Dangstetten

No. 3067 - orchid meadow