Isteiner Klotz (nature and landscape protection area)

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Nature and landscape protection area "Isteiner Klotz"

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

View of the nature reserve's namesake: the Isteiner Klotz

View of the nature reserve's namesake: the Isteiner Klotz

location Istein , Loerrach District , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface 25.5 ha
Identifier 3,160
WDPA ID 163933
Geographical location 47 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '47 "  N , 7 ° 31' 51"  E
Isteiner Klotz (nature and landscape protection area) (Baden-Württemberg)
Isteiner Klotz (nature and landscape protection area)
Sea level from 240 m to 290 m
Setup date October 16, 1986
administration Regional council Freiburg
information sign
South view of the Isteiner Klotz

The Isteiner Klotz is a very well-known nature reserve and a complementary landscape protection area in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the natural area of ​​the southern Markgräfler hill country in the south of the Upper Rhine Rift. In many international and national herbaria there are considerable stocks of the flora and fauna that are very diverse here.

The most striking point and namesake of the nature reserve is the Isteiner Klotz . This "Klotzenfelsen" or "Klotzenspitze" is located north of the village of Istein , a former fishing village. The correction of the Rhine , the construction of the railway, the construction of quarries and fortifications and the associated numerous explosions have changed the image of this prominent point significantly over the past 150 years. The naturally forest-free rocky sites have now shrunk to around ten percent. Due to the construction of the fortifications and their razing after the First and Second World War , both the flora and fauna suffered great damage.

The NSG is supplemented by a landscape protection area already formed on October 2, 1937 with a current size of 35.9 hectares.

The Isteiner Klotz is also part of a network of protected areas. It belongs to the FFH area Markgräfler Rheinebene from Weil to Neuchâtel , which has a total size of 1526 hectares. The 1476 hectare SPA area (bird sanctuary) Rhine lowlands Haltingen-Neuchâtel with foothills also overlies the nature reserve and the FFH area.

geography

The nature reserve with 25.5 hectares has its areas in the districts of Huttingen , Istein and Kleinkems of the municipality of Efringen-Kirchen , it extends from the "Klotzenfelsen" in the south over the "Grünberg" to the north to the "Buchgraben". The area is cut in two by the Mannheim-Basel railway line .

climate

The climate is characterized by high temperatures and low rainfall. The early and late frosts are rarer than in the plain, the Isteiner Klotz mostly protrudes from the autumn and winter foggy layers with significantly higher average temperatures. In summary, the area is balanced, warm, relatively dry, low in frost and with little wind.

Characteristics

The protection purpose is conservation (from the ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council on the "Isteiner Klotz" nature reserve of October 16, 1986 (Journal of Laws of December 30, 1986, p. 485).)

  • as a significant geological object of great scientific importance;
  • as an area with largely natural heat-loving vegetation of great plant-geographical importance;
  • as a location for rare plant communities and as a habitat for rare and sometimes endangered animal and plant species, some of which are only currently found in Baden-Württemberg, and sometimes even in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Flora and fauna

The nature reserve has very diverse and special forms of vegetation

The rare species found here include

On animals are proven here

The entrances to the caves, tunnels and bunkers have been concreted over. There are only small entrances for bats and other animals.

See also

Web links

Commons : Isteiner Klotz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rip's bibliography , accessed October 22, 2019
  2. a b c d rips-dienste.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de , accessed on October 22, 2019
  3. RIPS regulation , accessed on October 22, 2019
  4. Entrances to tunnels are concreted over , Reinhard Cremer and Victoria Langelott, Badische Zeitung, F October 17, 2014, accessed October 22, 2019