Little Holy Sea
| Little Holy Sea | ||
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| Geographical location | Recke , Steinfurt district | |
| Tributaries | none | |
| Drain | none | |
| Location close to the shore | Hopsten , Obersteinbeck and Uffeln | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 21 '24 " N , 7 ° 38' 35" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 42.5 m | |
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particularities |
Lake in the Heiliges Meer nature reserve - Heupen |
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The Little Holy Sea is a still water in the nature reserve Heiliges Meer - Heupen .
At around 2000 years old, it is the oldest and smallest of the four lakes in the nature reserve. Like the sinkhole lake and the Great Holy Sea , it was created by a sinkhole. It is a little further east of the three other large bodies of water and has only been a nature reserve for a few years. It is surrounded by the wet meadows of the Heupen - a farming community from Obersteinbeck . A special feature is that it is the only body of water in the nature reserve that is still privately owned. It is the only body of water in the nature reserve that lies entirely within the territory of the municipality of Recke in the Tecklenburger Land . The sea basin flows past just west of the lake.
literature
- Fritz Runge: The natural monuments, nature and landscape protection areas of the Steinfurt district (= series of publications of the Steinfurt district. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 582701-2 ). District of Steinfurt, Steinfurt 1982.
- Elke Barth: Vegetation and nutrient development of a northwest German still water under the influence of landscape and settlement history. Paleoecological investigations on the sinkhole lake “Great Sacred Sea” . Treatises from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History, 64th year, issue 2/3. Westphalian Museum of Natural History of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association, Münster 2002, 216 pp.