Kleve (nature reserve)

Kleve
The nature reserve is in the middle of the picture
location	North of Brunsbüttel , Dithmarschen district , Schleswig-Holstein
surface	12 ha
Identifier	NSG no. 27
WDPA ID	164138
Geographical location	53 ° 59 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '35 "  N , 9 ° 8' 22"  E
Setup date	1962
administration	LLUR

Kleve is a nature reserve in the Schleswig-Holstein community of Sankt Michaelisdonn in the Dithmarschen district .

The nature reserve was designated at the end of 1962 (date of the regulation: November 8, 1962) and replaces the nature reserve of the same name, which was designated at the end of 1938. Most of the nature reserve is part of the 222 hectare FFH area "Klev and Donn landscape near St. Michaelisdonn". The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Dithmarschen district. The nature reserve is looked after by the Culture and General Service - District Forests of the Dithmarschen District.

The nature reserve is located north of Brunsbüttel a few hundred meters southeast of Sankt Michaelisdonn. It places a slope up to 30 meters high on the border between Geest and Marsch under protection. The slope is a historical cliff of the former North Sea coast. It stretches along an old moraine from the Saale Ice Age . Spring water emerges from this in several places .

The Geest slope is mainly wooded with coppice and mixed oak forests . In the northern area of ​​the protected area, through which the St. Michaelisdonn – Friedrichskoog railway line runs, there is also a grassland area . In the southern area of ​​the nature reserve, heather grows on tree-free areas. Sometimes you can also find dry grass here. The heather must be grazed for maintenance. The removal of the grass and heather, known as plagging , has to be continued to rejuvenate the heather.

On the moors live up to 300 species of insects , including bees , wild bees , wasps, such as digging and wasps , hoverflies , grasshoppers and ground beetles . Numerous reptiles also occur here, such as B. Slow Worm , smooth snake , grass snake , viper and fence and forest lizard . Furthermore, the nature reserve offers hare and wild rabbit as well as various species of marten a habitat.

The nature reserve is accessible on the edges by hiking trails. On the Bismarck stone in the north, a boulder that was found during the widening of the Kiel Canal from 1907 to 1914 and was set up here in 1915, and on the Spiekerberg in the south there are vantage points into the Elbmarsch .

Web links

• Kleve , leaflet from the State Office for Nature and the Environment of Schleswig-Holstein (PDF, 537 kB)
• Donner Klev , Touristik Marne-Marschenland e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ordinance on the “Kleve” nature reserve of November 8, 1962. State regulations and state case law. State government of Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on March 21, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Klev and Donn landscape near St. Michaelisdonn. Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , accessed on September 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Care of protected areas in Schleswig-Holstein. State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas , April 2017, accessed on March 14, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Description of the place. Sankt Michaelisdonn, accessed on March 21, 2013 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Donner Kleve - the dead cliff. Sankt Michaelisdonn, accessed on March 29, 2016 . 
6. ^ Ernst-Otto Pieper: The nature reserve "Kleve" near St. Michaelisdonn. Gamekeeper St. Hubertus e. V., accessed on May 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The Bismarckstein and the view into the march. St. Michaelisdonn parish, accessed on March 29, 2016 .