Ilmenau-Luhe lowland

Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Aerial photo of the NSG Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung with Winsen (Luhe) and the Elbe
location	Between Winsen , Stöckte and Laßrönne , in the district of Harburg in Lower Saxony
surface	4.34 km²
Identifier	NSG LÜ 300
WDPA ID	555588653
Geographical location	53 ° 23 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '34 "  N , 10 ° 12' 56"  E
Setup date	December 01, 2014
administration	NLWKN

The Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxon town of Winsen (Luhe) in the Harburg district .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG LÜ 300 is 434  hectares and has existed since December 1, 2014.

Natural space and rivers

Confluence of the Luhe into the Ilmenau

The nature reserve is located in the Harburger Elbmarschen natural area . It is a marshland landscape through which the Luhe and Ilmenau rivers flow. Furthermore, trenches and creeks characterize the area.

particularities

In storm surge -Hochwasser in the same which is Ilmenau barrage closed, whereby the Ilmenau and Luhe jam and flooding parts of the reserve. In addition, when the barrage is open, the natural tides influence the area and the flowing waters. Through these floods, large areas of grassland to developed wasteland with Hochstaudenfluren , reeds and Seggenried , coupled with a high water table . This makes the valley one of the last tributary marshes of the Elbe that is still under the influence of the tides . Small organisms in the tidal reeds and the vegetation-free sand, silt and mud areas improve the water quality.

There are also various types of biotopes in the nature reserve, such as B. nutrient-rich wet meadows , floodplain , marsh marigold meadows and willow riparian forests .

The deepening of the Elbe increased the tidal range , which led to increased waterlogging of the area. This wetting increased the proportion of reed beds, vineyards and tall herbaceous meadows, which today characterize the area's worth of protection.

Protection purpose

To be protected from all the tidal rivers, the freshwater Watts and extensively used wet meadows of the valley with partly consisted endangered species such as the white stork , lapwing , marsh harrier , corncrake , Savi's Warbler , Sedge Warbler , Common Snipe , beaver , otter or river and sea lamprey .

The protected water system is of particular importance for the otter, as it connects the otter occurrences in the Elbe and Ilmenau.

Driving on the Luhe without stepping on the bank and using the Ilmenau Canal as a federal waterway are still permitted.

literature

• District of Harburg: Ordinance of the district of Harburg on the nature reserve "Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung" in the city of Winsen (Luhe) . October 6, 2014 ( landkreis-harburg.de [PDF; 800 kB ]).
• District of Harburg: Justification for the ordinance of the district of Harburg on the nature reserve "Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung" in the city of Winsen (Luhe) . ( landkreis-harburg.de [PDF; 1.9 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Susanne Rahlf: A safe shelter for storks and otters . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 13, 2014
• Nature reserve "Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) , accessed on June 29, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} "Ilmenau-Luhe-Niederung" nature reserve. Retrieved December 3, 2014 .