Kananohe (nature reserve)

	Kananohe IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	Northwest of Langenhagen in Lower Saxony , in the Hanover region
surface	45 ha
Identifier	NSG HA 195
WDPA ID	318630
Geographical location	52 ° 29 ' N , 9 ° 40' E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '3 " N , 9 ° 39' 50" E
Setup date	06/22/2000
administration	NLWKN

The Kananohe is a nature reserve in the Engelbostel district of the Lower Saxony city of Langenhagen in the Hanover region .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG HA 195 is 45 hectares in size. In the nature reserve, which completely from the conservation area surrounded "Bergdorf", which in 1974 reported, 11.4 hectares is forest reserve "Cananohe" involved. The area has been under nature protection since June 22, 2000. The lower responsible nature conservation authority is the Hanover region.

The nature reserve is located north of the splinter settlement Kananohe in a forest area north of Hanover-Langenhagen . It puts part of a forest area characterized by mesophilic and acidic oak mixed forests under protection. On more humid locations, this changes into birch-pedunculate oak forest with echoes of birch quarry forest , while drier locations are occupied by oak-hornbeam forest . The forest area has a mostly only sparsely developed layer of shrubs and herbs . The proportion of old and dead wood is high.

While the natural forest area is left to its natural development, the other areas within the nature reserve are used for forestry as natural management forests and light commercial forests, taking into account the conservation and development of the natural forest stands . The area is criss-crossed by numerous ditches that drain to the Auter, which flows through the forest to the north of the nature reserve .

Trivia

1843 Hofgarten Inspector took here Heinrich Wendland from Cananohe 36 60-year-old oaks and take them to a sensational action to grove of Welfenmausoleums in the mountain garden of Herrenhausen .

Web links

Commons : Kananohe Nature Reserve - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Nature reserve "Kananohe" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

↑ Profile of the Cananohe natural forest , database of natural forest reserves in Germany, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food . Retrieved March 2, 2012.
↑ Dieter Lange: The mausoleum in the mountain garden , in: Günther Kokkelink , Harold Hammer-Schenk (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X (582 pages), pp. 186-188.
↑ According to Dieter Lange, the garden department of the city of Hanover [Green Space Office] keeps a Wendland diary with "Expenditures and work on the new facility near the mausoleum" and a "report on the new facility near the mausoleum".
↑ see also the information board number 20 in the Berggarten.

[1] Profile of the Cananohe natural forest , database of natural forest reserves in Germany, Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food . Retrieved March 2, 2012.

[2] Dieter Lange: The mausoleum in the mountain garden , in: Günther Kokkelink , Harold Hammer-Schenk (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X (582 pages), pp. 186-188.

[3] According to Dieter Lange, the garden department of the city of Hanover [Green Space Office] keeps a Wendland diary with "Expenditures and work on the new facility near the mausoleum" and a "report on the new facility near the mausoleum".

[4] see also the information board number 20 in the Berggarten.