Kreuzweiher-Langensee

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"Kreuzweiher-Langensee" nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

NSG Kreuzweiher-Langensee

NSG Kreuzweiher-Langensee

location Neukirch in the Lake Constance district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface 74.09 ha
Identifier 4,070
WDPA ID 164258
Geographical location 47 ° 39 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '37 "  N , 9 ° 41' 17"  E
Kreuzweiher-Langensee (Baden-Württemberg)
Kreuzweiher-Langensee
Setup date December 21, 1973
October 20, 1994 (expansion)
administration Regional Council Tübingen
Kreuzweiher

The Kreuzweiher-Langensee area is a designated nature reserve (NSG number 4070) in the area of ​​the Baden-Württemberg community of Neukirch in Germany, which was designated by ordinance of December 21, 1973 of the Tübingen regional council and expanded on October 20, 1994 .

location

The approximately 75  hectare Kreuzweiher-Langensee nature reserve , in the southwest of Neukirch, between the districts of Wildpoltsweiler , Unterlangensee , Oberlangensee and Wittenberg , at an altitude of around 440  m above sea level. NN located, is one of the natural area for Westallgäuer hills .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose of the NSG Kreuzweiher-Langensee is the preservation of a richly structured ecosystem . It consists of the two ponds Cross Pond and Lake Maggiore , whose water Flora, silting belt near the shore, low-nutrient flat and slope fen areas , moor grass - wet meadows , orchards , Erlenbruchwald areas and grassland areas as buffer zones further to avoid intensification of agricultural land in the surrounding area of the wetlands serve.

Hydrology

Langensee
The inlet of the 5.6 hectare Langensee takes place via meadow ditches, the catchment area covers about 67 hectares. The mean depth of the lake is 1.1 meters, the maximum depth 1.4 meters, its volume around 59,000 cubic meters . The Langensee drains into the Kreuzweiher.

Kreuzweiher
The Kreuzweiher has a catchment area of ​​around 450 hectares. The main inflow is the straightened Wiesengraben, into which the inflows from the direction of Hüttensee, Neukirch and Bernried flow from the Langensee. It has a water surface of 5.7 hectares. Its average depth is 1.3 meters, the maximum depth 2.0 meters; this results in a volume of 74,400 cubic meters. The process takes place via Kreuzweiherbach and Bollenbach into the Argen .

Flora and fauna

flora

Swamp blood-eye
( Potentilla palustris )
Siberian iris
( Iris sibirica )

The following plant species (selection) are to be named from the flora worthy of protection or observed :

fauna

The following animal species (selection) are to be named from the fauna worthy of protection or observed :

fishes

insects

Scabiosa butterfly
( Euphydryas aurinia )

Birds

Great Crested Grebe
( Podiceps cristatus )

trail

Around the nature reserve leads from Wildpoltsweiler (here parking and bathing in the Kreuzweiher) over Unterlangensee, Oberlangensee and Summerau back to Wildpoltsweiler an approximately seven kilometer long circular path with easy to moderately difficult inclines. Part of this path runs parallel to the first stage of the Jubiläumsweg Bodenseekreis , a 111-kilometer hiking trail that was signposted in 1998 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bodenseekreis. It leads over six stages through the hinterland of Lake Constance from Kressbronn via Neukirch, Meckenbeuren , Markdorf , Heiligenberg and Owingen to Überlingen .

Sporting opportunities

At the outflow of the Kreuzweiher, near Wildpoltsweiler, there is a bathing facility with a jetty and sunbathing area.

See also

literature

  • Department for nature conservation and landscape management: nature reserves in the administrative district of Tübingen . Ed .: Regional Council Tübingen. Second revised and expanded edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-5175-5 , pp. 282-284 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ partly mentioned by S. Gors: The vegetation of the LSG Kreuzweiher in the Württemberg Allgäu . Landesstelle Naturschutz Landschaftspflege Baden-Württemberg, Vol. 37, 1969, pp. 7–61.