Huntlos Moor

Huntlos Moor IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
View of Huntlos Moor in June 2017
location	North-east of Großenkneten , Oldenburg district , Lower Saxony
surface	150 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 079
WDPA ID	81971
Geographical location	52 ° 58 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '53 "  N , 8 ° 17' 26"  E
Sea level	from 18 m to 24 m
Setup date	April 12, 1942

The Huntloser Moor is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipality of Großenkneten in the Oldenburg district .

The nature reserve with the registration number NSG WE 079 is 150  hectares in size. It has been under nature protection since April 12, 1942. It is largely from the conservation area surrounded "Great Moor". On December 17, 1994, the nature reserve was expanded to its present size by parts of the nature reserve in the Great Moor. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Oldenburg.

The nature reserve is located northeast of Großenkneten and south of the Großenkneten district of Huntlosen in the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park . The moor , a spring and swamp moor, is part of the former Great Moor, which was located on the edge of the Cloppenburger Geest in the glacial valley of the Hunte . In 1870 the Huntlos Moor was separated from the Great Moor for peat extraction .

In the vicinity of the 31 hectare nature reserve, however, peat continued to be extracted, during which the moor was further drained. In 1987 rewetting began to protect the bog .

In the nature reserve there are u. a. Swamp forests , bog heaths , wet fallow and wet grassland . Parts of the nature reserve are used for agriculture and forestry.

Web links

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

• Nature reserve "Huntloser Moor" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Huntloser Moor" nature reserve , Grossenkneten community. Retrieved February 1, 2016.