Ibengarten

	Ibengarten IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	The Staudt yew tree at the resting place is one of the oldest examples in the Ibengarten nature reserve.
location	Thuringia , Germany
surface	56.1 ha
WDPA ID	9355
Geographical location	50 ° 41 ' N , 10 ° 8' E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '24 " N , 10 ° 8' 25" E
Setup date	1938

The Ibengarten (Eibengarten) is a 56.1 hectare nature reserve in the Thuringian Rhön , in Dermbach , Glattbach district . It is located on the northwest slope of the Neuberg at an altitude of up to 530 m above sea level. NN . The tree population includes 368 yew trees , 50 of which are over 500 years old.

natural reserve

The Dermbacher forester Otto Staudt (1920-1936) was a pioneer of the nature conservation movement in Thuringia. He recognized the value of this yew occurrence and asked the authorities for understanding and support. Thanks to his efforts, the Ibengarten, the largest population of wild yew trees in the state of Thuringia , was placed under nature protection on January 24, 1938 on the legal basis of the Reich Nature Conservation Act (of June 26, 1935). This makes it the oldest nature reserve in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and one of the oldest nature reserves in Thuringia .

More yew forests in Germany

The Paterzeller Eibenwald is located in Bavaria ( Upper Bavaria ) near the Wessobrunn Monastery . Within the approx. 88 hectare nature reserve in the Weilheim-Schongau district, there are over 1500 older yew trees in a species-rich mountain mixed forest .
In the 12.7 hectare yew forest on the Hainberg in Bovenden , Eddigehausen district in Lower Saxony , Göttingen district , there are around 800 yew trees with an age of up to 200 years.
The 31.3 hectare Wasserberg natural forest reserve near Gößweinstein in Upper Franconia (northern Franconian Alb) is a beech forest with yews.
In Fürstenhagen in Thuringia, Eichsfeld district , there are around 5,700 yew trees in an old beech forest in the Lengenberg nature reserve . They are up to 120 years old.

literature

A. Schubert: The Ibengarten. A yew grove in Neuberg near Glattbach = Dermbach adRhön (reprint) . Verlag Rainer Hartmann, Sondheim vd Rhön 1993, ISBN 3-926523-33-6 , p. 20 .

Web links

Commons : Ibengarten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Nature reserves in the Wartburg district: Ibengarten. Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), 2011, accessed on April 14, 2011 : "The" Ibengarten "(NSG 93) is considered a very important gene reservoir of the yew tree. This species occurs on about 12 hectares with 368 mostly older specimens ... The "Ibengarten" belonged to the Zella monastery since the 12th century. "
↑ NN (Fritz Rollberg): The first nature reserve in Thuringia. Ordinance on the Ibengarten nature reserve in the Dermbach Forest, Eisenach district . In: Reinhold Vesper (Hrsg.): Thüringer Heimatschutz, supplement to the Thüringer Fähnlein . Monthly magazine for the Central German homeland . 1938, issue 4. G. Neuenhahn, Jena 1938, p. 25-26 .

[TLUG-1] Nature reserves in the Wartburg district: Ibengarten. Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), 2011, accessed on April 14, 2011 : "The" Ibengarten "(NSG 93) is considered a very important gene reservoir of the yew tree. This species occurs on about 12 hectares with 368 mostly older specimens ... The "Ibengarten" belonged to the Zella monastery since the 12th century. "

[Fähnlein-2] NN (Fritz Rollberg): The first nature reserve in Thuringia. Ordinance on the Ibengarten nature reserve in the Dermbach Forest, Eisenach district . In: Reinhold Vesper (Hrsg.): Thüringer Heimatschutz, supplement to the Thüringer Fähnlein . Monthly magazine for the Central German homeland . 1938, issue 4. G. Neuenhahn, Jena 1938, p. 25-26 .