Krottental-Karbach

	"Krottental-Karbach" nature reserve
location	Amtzell and Wangen im Allgäu , Ravensburg district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	0.16 km²
Identifier	4.183
WDPA ID	164266
Geographical location	47 ° 41 ' N , 9 ° 53' E
Setup date	February 6, 1991
administration	Regional Council Tübingen

The area Krottental-Karbach is a 6 February 1991 Regulation of the Regional Council Tübingen been instructed Nature Reserve (NSG number 4183) near the town Wangen and the community Amtzell in the Baden-Württemberg district Ravensburg in Germany .

location

The 16 hectare large nature reserve Krottental-Karbach is one natural area to Westallgäuer hills . It is located about 3.5 kilometers northwest of downtown Wangen, west of the “Wangen-West” motorway junction , between the hamlets of Hagmühle, Untermatzen, Krottental and Grünenberg, at an altitude of 560 m above sea level. NN . In the land maps, these districts are designated as Leupolz (to Wangen) and Amtzell (to Amtzell).

The nature reserve, which is two kilometers long in north-south direction, is traversed by the Karbach , a tributary of the Lower Argen . The valley is part of an old drainage channel that ran from the former Wurzacher See - today's Wurzacher Ried - to the Untere Argen between the last two ice ages . A tongue of the Rhine glacier moved north in this channel during the Würme Ice Age .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation - and in part the restoration - of a near-natural, pre-alpine floodplain, characterized by extensive meadow use, the high ecological value of which lies in the combination of different humid biotopes that are the habitat of a species-rich , characteristic flora and fauna. The protection purpose also includes, for example, the protection of a body of water in its valley floodplain, the boundary of which is determined by the clear course of the Niedergestades ( recent valley floodplain).
As a typical landscape element in the cultural landscape of Upper Swabia and as a feeding habitat for breeding and resting birds, it forms an important part of the network of Upper Swabian waters and wetlands.

Flora and fauna

flora

The following species worthy of protection are to be named (selection):

Single berry ( Paris quadrifolia ), a poisonous plant from the Germer family

Blue monkshood ( Aconitum napellus ), a member of the buttercup family

Large two-leaf ( Listera ovata ), a species of the orchid family

fauna

Due to its different habitats with spawning waters , summer and winter quarters, the Karbachtal is the livelihood of numerous amphibians , but (migratory) birds , insects , spiders and other animal groups also find suitable living conditions here.

Web links

Weblink of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)

Individual evidence

^ Ordinance of the Tübingen regional council on the "Krottental-Karbach" nature reserve of February 6, 1991 (Journal of Laws of April 17, 1991, p. 188)

47.71167 9.80472Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 42 " N , 9 ° 48 ′ 17" E

[1] Ordinance of the Tübingen regional council on the "Krottental-Karbach" nature reserve of February 6, 1991 (Journal of Laws of April 17, 1991, p. 188)