Illertal (FFH area)

	FFH area "Illertal"
	The Iller near Illerkirchberg
location	Dietenheim , Illerkirchberg , Illerrieden and Schnürpflingen in the Alb-Donau district , Schwendi and Wain in the district of Biberach and Ulm , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
WDPA ID	555522007
Natura 2000 ID	[https://www.bfn.de/themen/natura-2000/natura-2000-gebiete/steckbriefe/natura/gebiete/show/ffh/DE7726341.html 7726-341 7726-341 ]
FFH area	2.745 km²
Geographical location	48 ° 21 ' N , 10 ° 0' E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '40 " N , 10 ° 0' 22" E
Setup date	January 1, 2005
administration	Regional Council Tübingen
particularities	nine sub-areas

The Illertal area was a protected area (protected area identifier DE-7922-342) in the south-east of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, designated by the Tübingen regional council according to Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) .

In 2015 the area with the original FFH areas " Danube between Munderkingen and Erbach " (7724-341) and " Donautal bei Ulm " (7625-341) became the FFH area " Danube between Munderkingen and Ulm and northern Iller " (7625- 311) merged.

location

The approximately 275 hectare (ha) large protected area Illertal belonged naturally to the wooden sticks and to the Lower Illertal . Its nine sub-areas stretched along the Illertal in the communities of Schwendi and Wain in the Biberach district (five hectares), in Dietenheim , Illerkirchberg , Illerrieden and Schnürpflingen in the Alb-Danube district (215.1 hectares) and the city of Ulm (49.2 hectares) Ha).

description

The protected area Illertal , the Baden-Württemberg part of the Illeraue with hardwood, softwood and clover forests and the Iller as a tamed pre-alpine river, and the geological peculiarity " Kirchberg layers ", was described as "alluvial forests along the Iller".

The " Kirchberger layers " are clay-rich, fossil-bearing layers (shark teeth, brackish water clams, snails and fish), part of the so-called brackish water - molasses and years were in the age of before about 17 bis 18 million Miocene deposited. The layers appear on the steep slope to the Iller, along the Weihungstal and the Fischbach.

Habitats

The diversity of dry and moist habitat types in the protected area was made up of "ravine and hillside mixed forests", "flowing waters with flooding water vegetation", "limestone grasslands", "floodplain forests with alder, ash, willow", "hardwood floodplain forests", "moist tall herbaceous vegetation" and "Lean flatland hay meadows" described.

Habitat classes



Deciduous forest			45%
Mixed forest			24%
Coniferous forest			10%
Moist and mesophilic grassland			14%
Inland waters, flowing and standing			1 %
other farmland			4%
Other (cities, roads, landfills, pits, industrial areas)			2%

Web links

Ordinance, data evaluation sheet and map in the profile of the FFH area in the LUBW protected area directory
7726-341 Illertal. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation .