Sand-lime pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim

Sand-lime pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Nature reserve "Sand-lime pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim", southern part of the area (2020)
location	Bickenbach , Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim , Darmstadt-Dieburg district , Hesse , Germany
surface	87.42 ha
Identifier	1432023
WDPA ID	163992
Geographical location	49 ° 47 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '55 "  N , 8 ° 38' 13"  E
Setup date	January 23, 1996

The Kalksandkiefernwald in Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim is a nature reserve in the districts Bickenbach , Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim in Darmstadt-Dieburg in Southern Hesse . It was expelled by ordinance of January 23, 1996.

location

The nature reserve is located in the Hessian Rhine Plain in the forest area between Darmstadt-Eberstadt , Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim. The total area of ​​the protected area is 87.42 hectares. It consists of two sub-areas. The larger area extends north of Seeheim in the districts of Seeheim-Jugenheim and Pfungstadt. It borders on federal highway 3 to the west . The smaller area is northeast of Bickenbach and northwest of Jugenheim on the eastern edge of the Bickenbach district. It is bounded in the north by a lane of a natural gas pipeline.

Protection purpose

With the protection, the sand-lime pine forest is to be secured as a habitat for adapted rare animal and plant communities. A forest with a dominant proportion of pine with its ground vegetation and accompanying fauna is to be preserved through maintenance measures. The forest management should take the form of small farming.

description

The nature reserve "Lime sand pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim" is a light pine forest on calcareous sandy soil. Remnants of hat trees and junipers indicate that pasture was previously used in the forest. For several years, parts of the area have been grazed by goats, sheep and donkeys in order to prevent encroachment with blackthorn and blackberries and to keep the ground open.

Flora and fauna

The undergrowth includes the rare plants hairy awl grass , perennial flax , dwarf snail , steppe milkweed , sun rose , wintergreen , sand violet , several types of orchids and sand silver wedge , as well as the gray scabiosa . Extensive sandy grass vegetation has also developed on the route of the gas pipeline north of the smaller sub-area through targeted care.

Tree pipit , wood warbler and pied flycatcher are named as breeding birds .

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ordinance on the nature reserve "Limestone pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim" of January 23, 1996. (PDF). State gazette for the state of Hesse, issue No. 7/1996, p. 617, No. 205, accessed on July 22, 2020 .  
2. ↑ Map of the nature reserve. natureg.hessen.de, accessed on July 22, 2020 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} 16. BioTopTour: Ried and Sand. Darmstadt-Dieburg district, 2006, accessed on July 22, 2020 .  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} NSG sand-lime pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim. NABU Seeheim-Jugenheim, accessed on July 22, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Species aid concept for gray scabiosis (Scabiosa canescens). (PDF). Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology, 2018, accessed on July 22, 2020 .  

Web links

Commons : Nature reserve sand-lime pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• World Database on Protected Areas - sand-lime pine forest near Bickenbach, Pfungstadt and Seeheim-Jugenheim (English)