Jävenitzer Moor
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 8 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 20 ″ E
The Jävenitzer Moor is a nature reserve in the town of Gardelegen in the Altmark district of Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .
The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0007 is 13.74 hectares . It is part of the FFH area of the same name and the EU bird sanctuary "Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide bird sanctuary". The area has been under protection since 1938 (date of regulation: December 11, 1938). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel.
The nature reserve is located south of the Gardelegen districts of Kloster Neuendorf and Jävenitz . It places a small moorland under protection. The moor lies in a depression in a wooded area on the edge of the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide . It is fed via five source zones. The moor was used until the 1950s. Large parts of the drained and peated bog are tree-free. Through rewetting measures, parts of the bog were able to regenerate. In former peat cuttings are u. a. Find peat moss , yellow ocher water hose and small water hose . On silting surfaces settle Sundew and Tormoos- Wollgras- and beak-sedge societies. Knotweed spawn can be found in the moats . In addition, there are swamp forests with bog birch , alder and pines, as well as sedge reeds with thread sedge societies, beak sedge reeds and ostrich grass - gray sedge societies . Peat moss and bell heather moist heather grow in regenerating areas of the bog .
In the nature reserve are u. a. Honey buzzard , teal , common snipe and goat milkers are native. Also Waldeidechse and smooth newt can be found here. Furthermore, many come dragonfly species before, including Southern and Small Emerald Damselfly , javelin and moon Azurjungfer , keeled skimmer , Banded Darter and Nordic faced darter .
The moorland drains through ditches to the Jävenitzer Moorbach and further over the Laugenbach to Milde .
