Landscape protection area open spaces around Giershagen

The landscape protection area open spaces around Giershagen with 784.93  hectares is located around the village of Giershagen in the urban area of Marsberg and in the Hochsauerlandkreis . The area was designated as a landscape protection area (LSG) by the district council of the Hochsauerlandkreis in 2008 with the Marsberg landscape plan . The LSG was designated as a type B landscape planning area, peripheral locations, open land and cultivated land protection. In the LSG there are open agricultural areas with fields and grassland. In the LSG, the protected landscape component of field trees is in the Schlage .

Protection purpose

The designation was carried out to ensure the diversity and uniqueness of the landscape in the vicinity of the localities and the old agricultural priority areas by keeping it open. Also because of its special importance for recreation.

Legal regulations

As in the other landscape protection areas in the urban area, the LSG prohibits the construction of structures. Construction projects for horticulture, agriculture and forestry are exempt from the ban. The Lower Nature Conservation Authority can issue special permits for buildings of all kinds. As in the other type B landscape protection areas in Meschede, the LSG prohibits initial afforestation and the creation of Christmas trees , ornamental branches and tree nurseries . There is a requirement to keep the LSG free of woodland through agricultural use or suitable maintenance measures.

Nature conservation activities in the area of Schlage

In the area of stroke in the nature reserve Glindetal to the yaw Hagen lime kiln is since 1986 Association for nature and bird conservation in Hochsauerlandkreis (VNV) enabled. In the 1980s, the quarry at the lime kiln was freed from an illegal waste dump during work by the VNV. Lean lawn areas have been mowed since the mid-1990s. Hazelnut bushes and aspen trees were removed in several work assignments . In the winter of 2014/15, trees were removed from the lime kiln as their weight threatened to bring the lime kiln to collapse. The lime kiln area was initially leased from VNV in 1986 and purchased in 2013.

In 2013 and 2015, five shallow and stony lime sherds, called Kalkofenacker , were purchased directly to the north and outside the NSG in the LSG open spaces around Giershagen . In the 1980s, the arable area was part of the field margins program of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. After the end of the program in the late 1980s, the field was again conventionally farmed. Since 2015 there has been another strip of field margins on the VNV field towards the lime kiln. The field margin is no longer fertilized and treated with pesticides . The grain is only sown in two rows. In this way, more light reaches the arable soil and wild herbs are promoted. The leaseholder will be waived the lease price by the VNV to compensate for the loss of use. In the past, field weeds such as field light carnation , field quail wheat and field stone seeds were detected in the field. In autumn 2018, for the first time in many years, after an agreement with the farmer who leased the fields, winter cereals were again grown on the purchased fields. In 2019, more than fifty different wild herb species ( Segetal plants ) could be detected. These included extremely rare species such as summer adonis and field dog chamomile . With the round-leaved rabbit-ear , a previously believed to be extinct species was discovered.

See also

• List of landscape protection areas in the Hochsauerlandkreis

literature

• Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority: Marsberg landscape plan. Meschede 2008, p. 94 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Legge: Secluded and charming - the cultural landscape around the Giershagen lime kiln. In: Irrgeister. 32/2015, pp. 6-11.
2. ↑ Richard Götte: The Kalkofenacker, a treasure chest for rare wild herbs . Irrgeister 36, 2019: 10-16

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 57 ″  E