Kirchberg and Kochhartgraben

Landscape protection area "Kirchberg and Kochhartgraben" IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
View from Kirchberg over the Kochhartgraben
location	Ammerbuch in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	29.5 ha
Identifier	4.16.001
WDPA ID	322130
Geographical location	48 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '16 "  N , 8 ° 53' 37"  E
Setup date	1st February 1973
administration	Tübingen district

Kirchberg and Kochhartgraben is a protected landscape area (protected area number 4.16.001) in the Tübingen district.

Location and description

The reserve is located west of the Reusten district of Ammerbuch . It serves as a supplementary area for the nature reserve No. 4265 Kochhartgraben and Ammertal slopes that it borders between Reusten and the A 81 north and south. It belongs to the natural area 122- Obere Gäue within the natural spatial main unit 12- Neckar- and Tauber-Gäuplatten .

Protection purpose

The ridge of the Kirchberg above the Ammertal is culturally and historically significant, its slopes are in the nature reserve. Several protected plant species thrive on the steep shell limestone southern slopes of the Kochhartgraben in warm, sunny, dry and shallow locations.

See also

• List of landscape protection areas in the Tübingen district

literature

• District of Tübingen , State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Nature conservation in the district of Tübingen . 1985, pp. 58-60.

Web links

• Profile of the landscape protection area in the protected area directory of the LUBW