Ipweger Moor

The Ipweger Moor recreational area is located northeast of the Lower Saxony city ​​of Oldenburg . It is named after the peasantry Ipwege . There are several nature reserves (NSG): bark Kuhlen in Ipweger moor and bog and grassland on Heiddeich in Ammerland and the majority in Wesermarsch lying Gellener Torfmöörte with rock and mud Fuchsberg . The areas are part of the FFH area 014 "Ipweger Moor, Gellener Torfmöörte". The owner is the state of Lower Saxony , which has the nature reserves managed by the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Protection .

Emergence

The original area of ​​the Geestrand moor was approx. 6000 hectares. It was created after the Ice Age by swamping: rainwater flowed from the Oldenburg-East Frisian Geest ridge and merged with the water of the Weser to form a lake, from which over time one up to formed a five meter deep high moor .

Current condition

Today the area consists of an uncultivated raised bog and a belt of grassland that lies fallow . Various measures have improved the habitat for numerous animal and plant species. Cloudberry , raised bog mother-of-pearl butterfly and moor frog are rare species.

The lower nature conservation authority of the Ammerland district is responsible for the NSG Barkenkuhlen in the Ipweger Moor and Hochmoor and Grünland am Heiddeich , and that of the Wesermarsch district for Rockenmoor / Fuchsberg .

Barkenkuhlen in the Ipweger Moor

The nature reserve Barkenkuhlen in the Ipweger Moor with the registration NSG WE 172 has an area of ​​48 hectares .

High moor and grassland on the Heiddeich

The nature reserve high moor and grassland on the Heiddeich has the label WE 248 and extends over 53 hectares.

Rockenmoor / Fuchsberg

This area has an area of ​​155 ha (registration number NSG WE 183). Since December 2018 it has been part of the nature reserve "Gellener Torfmöörte with Rockenmoor and Fuchsberg".

Archaeological finds

In 1989 the excavation of the Bohlenweg XII (Ip) , also called Bardenflether Bohlenweg or Hünenbrücke , took place in the Ipweger Moor . The one to the year 713 BC. Bohlenweg , dated using dendrochronology , is 6.5 kilometers and is the longest known moorland dam in Germany from this time. He bridged the moor between the present-day villages of Loyerberg and Bardenfleth .

During the excavation work, a rock-hard structure shaped like a loaf of bread was also found. After closer examination it turned out in 1994 that it was a replica of a bread made from beeswax .

insects

Red-headed sand bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)

In 1987 and 1999, 34 species of bees were identified, with the sand bee species Andrena haemorrhoa and the narrow bee species Lasioglossum fratellum and the mask bee species Hylaeus confusus being the most common.

Web links

Commons : Ipweger Moor  - Collection of Images

• Information from the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation
• Overview map of the Wesermarsch district
• Profile of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation for the FFH area

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nature reserve "Barkenkuhlen im Ipweger Moor" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
2. ↑ Nature reserve "Hochmoor und Grünland am Heiddeich" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
3. ↑ "Rockenmoor / Fuchsberg" nature reserve in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
4. ↑ Heike Ritter-Eden: Travel in the Oldenburger Land. Volume 2: Wesermarsch and Ammerland , Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, p. 112
5. ↑ W. Brockner, B. Mitchell: The so-called bread Fund from Ipweger Moor . Archaeological correspondence sheet No. 24, Mainz 1994
6. ↑ Paul Westrich : Die Wildbienen Deutschlands , 2nd edition, Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2019, p. 17 f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 36"  E