Lüßwald
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 1 ″ N , 10 ° 17 ′ 29 ″ E
The Lüßwald is a 7500 ha large mixed forest in the municipality Südheide belonging village Unterlüß in the Lueneburg Heath . It bears his name from Lüß and is part of one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Germany. Parts of the Lüßwald are located in the Südheide landscape protection area (LSG CE 25) and in the almost congruent Südheide nature reserve . A 170 hectare part of the forest is designated as a nature reserve Lünsholz .
Geographical location
The Lüßwald is from Hanover-Hamburg railway and of Hankensbuettel by weary (Örtze) extending road L 280 traversed, the Federal Highway 191 extends in the southeast. It is part of an even larger forest area, which extends essentially in the space between the cities or towns of Munster (Örtze) , Eimke , Suderburg , Bad Bodenteich , Sprakensehl , Eschede , Winsen (Aller) , Hermannsburg and Wietzendorf . This central forest area is bordered to the west by the river Örtze , to the south by the Aller , to the southeast by the Lachte , to the east by the Elbe Lateral Canal and to the north by the Gerdau flowing to Uelzen . However, the forest area also has significant forest connections beyond that, which extend in the south to just before Burgwedel , in the north to Buchholz , and in the west to Bad Fallingbostel .
history
Although not ancient trees, but very old forest structures, could survive here over the centuries. Even at the end of the time of heather farming , when the heather areas in the area were even more extensive, there was a forest here. On the map of the Kurhannoverschen Landesaufnahme from 1777, the Lüßwald is already marked extensively as "Königliche Höltzung". The place name "Unterlüß" or "unter" and "Lüß" (for the term see Geology) contains the field and forest name of the forest "Lüß", which was mentioned in 1569.
More recently, a memorial stone with an inscription on the Lüßberg near the so-called Wolfswinkel commemorates the great hurricane Quimburga of November 13, 1972. According to the inscription, it had 320,000 cubic meters at the time "in the area of the Lüß forestry office (...) -fold the normal annual logging ”, destroyed. The forest fire disaster in the Lüneburg Heath in 1975 also cost considerable trees, which is why the surrounding forests have younger trees.
Flora
The Lüßwald has a tree population which, in addition to pines and birches, partly consists of Douglas firs , beeches , oaks and spruces over 100 years old , and partly oak stands up to approx. 180 years old. It is very structured and also characterized by younger trees or forest meadows. At the edge, or enclosed by the adjacent forests, as part of the Südheide , there are also larger heather areas such as the heather areas of the middle Lüß plateau , moraine landscapes or moors such as the Brambosteler Moor , source of the Gerdau .
A natural forest reserve is also part of the Lüßwald. This part bears the official name Naturwald Lüßberg . In this forest section, which lies within the Lünsholz nature reserve , all use has been suspended since 1973. The forest is left to itself, the trees are allowed to live there until they die a natural death. Deadwood is deliberately left in the forest in order to create habitats for deadwood inhabitants.
There is a general entry ban, but from the path you can see the special charm of this forest, which over time develops a particularly high structural diversity, valuable for animal and plant species with special requirements on their habitat, such as forest lizards or the poisonous Adders .
Fauna
Already in the first half of the 13th century the area of the Lüßwald was mentioned as a royal wild forest . Even today, there is next to deer than the largest native wild species also as roe deer , wild boar or predators to the latter include not only, for example Fox and raccoon also been sporadically sighted lynx . The wolf has also settled. After the first photo proof of an individual animal was obtained in 2007 on the approx. 50 km² large, wild and species-rich test area of the Rheinmetall Waffen Munition GmbH company , a pack has established itself in the Unterlüß area , as it was already in 2013 after further sightings suspected. Particularly rare animal species and numerous other wolf offspring also support the Munster and Bergen military training areas , with which the Lüßwald is connected through forest, meadow and heather areas. Also rare and susceptible to disturbance species such as the black stork and the pygmy owl live in the Lüßwald.
The connection to the abundance of game in this old forest area can also be seen in the coats of arms of the neighboring towns such as Bad Bodenteich or Sprakensehl and can still be heard clearly in autumn today. In addition to the above-mentioned cartographic entry "Wolfswinkel" on the Lüßberg or the district name "Wolfskuhle" in Suderburg , the wolf also plays a role in the coat of arms of Burgwedel , which marks the southernmost point of the larger forest area described above.
Forest rivers
The streams arise in the area of the Lüßwald
- Sothrieth , it flows through the former kieselguhr mining areas Neu- and Oberohe , flows south of Faßberg into the Schmarbeck and then flows as Landwehrbach near Müden (Örtze) into the Örtze ;
- the Weesener Bach , which flows via Lutterloh to Hermannsburg and also flows into the Örtze ;
- the Drellebach , the later Aschau , which irrigates the Aschau ponds of the same name near Eschede ;
- the Räber (Sche) Spring , the headwaters of the Hardau , which flows through Suderburg .
Very close, to the west and above Weyhausen rises the Lutter and in the north the Schmarbeck , which the district on the o. G. Rheinmetall test site drained.
geology
The Lüßwald lies on the Lüß and is part of the Hohe Heide . The Lüß takes up just under the southeastern half of the Hohe Heide in the districts of Uelzen , Gifhorn and Celle .
One of the largest elevations in the Lüßwald and also the central point of the Lüß is 130 m above sea level. NHN high Lüßberg . It forms with the approximately 8.5 km to the west, directly at the residential area Breitenhees in the forest section Düllow , which 137 m above sea level. NHN reached, the two highest points of the Lüß plateau .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Place names - overview for the letter U , NDR, accessed on January 10, 2015
- ↑ Map 1: 50,000 floodplains in Germany on geodienste.bfn.de, accessed on January 10, 2015
- ↑ The Lüßwald - a primeval forest in the Südheide Nature Park , lüneburger-heide.de, accessed on January 10, 2015
- ↑ Südheide Nature Park at heideregion-uelzen.de, accessed on January 10, 2015
- ^ Primeval forest in the Südheide ( Memento from November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, October 23, 2014
- ↑ First the wolf - now the lynx / The return of the wild predators, observations in Celler Nordkreis , based on the Cellesche Zeitung, Simon Ziegler, June 7, 2008, accessed on January 10, 2015
- ↑ A paradise not just for martens, puma and leo - an important natural area: the Rheinmetall test area in the Lüneburg Heath Rheinmetall website, Rheinmetall-defence.com, accessed on January 11, 2015
- ↑ Udo Genth and Joachim Gries: Wolfs-Nachwuchs at Rheinmetall in Unterlüß ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cellesche Zeitung, July 25, 2014
- ↑ Wolf evidence in Lower Saxony on the page "Wildlife Management in Lower Saxony" ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wildtiermanagement.com, accessed January 10, 2015
- ↑ The wolf population in Lower Saxony is developing ( memento of the original from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the Friends of Wildlife Wolves, November 25, 2014, accessed on January 10, 2015
- ↑ Wolves will sooner or later form a pack in the Lüßwald , Celleheute.de, October 24, 2013.
- ^ The name of the district Wolfskuhle in Suderburg , display Wolfsschild on suderburg.de, accessed on January 12, 2015
Web links
- The Lüßwald - a primeval forest in the Südheide Nature Park Description and clear illustrations on lüneburger-heide.de
- Website of the Lower Saxony Forestry Office Unterlüß