Kniebis-Alexanderschanze

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"Kniebis-Alexanderschanze" nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Alexanderschanze

Alexanderschanze

location Freudenstadt and Baiersbronn in the Freudenstadt district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface 134.6 ha
Identifier 2207
WDPA ID 164164
Geographical location 48 ° 29 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '53 "  N , 8 ° 16' 33"  E
Kniebis-Alexanderschanze (Baden-Württemberg)
Kniebis-Alexanderschanze
Setup date December 18, 1996
administration Karlsruhe Regional Council

Kniebis-Alexanderschanze is a nature reserve in the area of ​​the Baden-Württemberg city of Freudenstadt and the municipality of Baiersbronn .

Characteristics

The nature reserve was designated by decree of the Karlsruhe Regional Council of December 18, 1996 and originally had a size of around 190 hectares. The scope of the Protected Areas Ordinance was reduced in 2014 by Section 19 of the National Park Act to the areas outside the national park , the area designated as a nature reserve is therefore only 134.6 hectares in size.

It is listed under the protected area number 2.207. The CDDA code for the nature reserve is 164164 and corresponds to the WDPA ID .

Location and description

The original reserve is now partly in the Black Forest National Park. It now essentially comprises the open spaces south of the Schwarzwaldhochstrasse ( Bundesstrasse 500 ) and the areas at the "Old Baden Kniebis" south of Bundesstrasse 28 . It is located in the natural area 151- Grindenschwarzwald and Enzhöhen within the natural spatial main unit 15- Black Forest and borders on the landscape protection area 2.37.013 Kniebis . It is also part of the approximately 36,045 hectare bird sanctuary No. 7415-441 Northern Black Forest .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of the extensively used historical cultural landscape with a variety of biotopes such as turf rush heaths with bog, Bärwurz-red fescue meadows, wet fallow as well as woody plants and forest edges. It is a landscape and natural area of ​​special character and beauty and a recreational area for the general public.

In particular, the following should be protected:

  • the open bristle grass lawns with the typical plant communities of boxer grass, bulky rush and pipe grass-rush-heather;
  • the stone bars as ecologically and aesthetically valuable elements with endangered animal species, z. B. the adder;
  • the plant species typical of heathland such as peat moss and cotton grass;
  • the animal species that are adapted to the extreme climate and specialize in heathland, such as the night butterflies, pipe-grass owl, moor-pipe-grass owl and various endangered species of locusts;
  • the preservation of the Alexanderschanze ground monument .

See also

literature

  • District Office for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Karlsruhe (Ed.): The nature reserves in the administrative district of Karlsruhe . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-5172-7 , pp. 256-258

Web links

Commons : Kniebis-Alexanderschanze nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Park Act of December 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )