Königsrode

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The Königsrode Vorwerk in Fiener Bruch
View from the Königsroder Hof observation tower to a courting rooster

Königsrode or the Königsroder Hof is a Vorwerk or residential area in the east of Saxony-Anhalt in the district of Jerichower Land . It belongs to Tucheim , which has been part of the city of Genthin since 2009 . Königsrode is centrally located in the Fiener Bruch in the Fiener Bruch bird sanctuary , on the trench-like Kietzer Bach . The Königsroder Hof is an agricultural and hotel business . It consists of a farmhouse and partially developed barns and stables .

Fiener Bruch bird sanctuary

Since the Fiener Bruch is one of only three breeding areas of the Great Bustard , the heaviest bird capable of flying, which is threatened with extinction in Germany , the Karow Great Bustard Sanctuary was established in 1979 in what was then the Magdeburg district with a size of 5,780 hectares. In the 1990s the lowland was designated as an EU bird sanctuary at Fiener Bruch as part of the Natura 2000 network . In 1997, the 143 hectare nature reserve Fiener Bruch was designated within the Saxony-Anhalt sub-area . In the middle of the Fiener Bruch near Königsrode is the ornithological station , the Königsroder Hof observation tower . In the Königsroder Hof the Förderverein Großtrappenschutz e. V. an information center in which regular events about the protection of the great bustard take place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Mammen, Ubbo Mammen, Gunthard Dornbusch, Stefan Fischer: EU SPA bird sanctuary Fiener Bruch. In: The European bird sanctuaries of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt, October 2013, ISSN  0941-7281 .
  2. ^ Museum . Accessed May 13, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′  N , 12 ° 13 ′  E