Landscape protection area Märkischer Kreis
The landscape protection area Märkischer Kreis with 31,085.67 hectares is located in the northern and western Märkischer Kreis . It was designated as a landscape protection area (LSG) in 2006 by the Arnsberg district government . The LSG is located in the areas of Altena , Halver , Hemer , Menden , Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde , Neuenrade , Schalksmühle and Werdohl . The LSG often goes to the outskirts of the settlement.
With the entry into force of the ordinance on the Märkischer Kreis nature reserve , the regulatory ordinances on the Ebbegebirge nature reserve from 1986, the Homert nature reserve from 2004, and nature reserves in the towns of Altena, Halver, Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde, Schalksmühle and Werdohl from 1992 and repealed in 1971 to protect parts of the landscape in the Iserlohn district . For areas that are shown in the regional plan as areas for the protection of nature (BSN), only temporary protection applies as a landscape protection area until these areas are designated in their essential parts as nature protection areas.
description
The LSG covers large areas in the northern Märkischer Kreis, which are outside of the development area and other protected areas with stricter requirements. In the LSG there are mainly forest areas, grassland and fields. Smaller areas with Christmas trees , ornamental branches and tree nursery cultures are also located in the LSG. The forests mostly have spruce or beech trees.
Protection purpose
The designation was made to ensure and maintain the natural suitability for recreation and the efficiency of the natural balance against the diverse civilizational demands on nature and landscape in a forest and water-rich low mountain range. Because of a fundamental protection of the habitats of the animal and plant species characteristic of this landscape; the maintenance and development of valuable biotope structures; their importance for the ecosystem and species protection; the maintenance and development of the near-natural deciduous forest areas as well as the richly structured open land areas, especially in the peripheral areas. The LSG serves to secure the flowing waters and their floodplains because of their special importance for the efficiency of the natural balance and for the biotope network as well as a buffer function for the nature reserves located in the landscape protection area. To ensure the diversity, uniqueness and beauty of the landscape, which is mainly characterized by the open land areas used for agriculture in the otherwise largely wooded low mountain range as well as the heavily moved relief. Typical landscape elements such as bodies of water, wooded hilltops, woody structures, terrace edges and springs create a varied and richly structured landscape. The northern area of the landscape protection area is mainly characterized by the largely agriculturally used floodplain areas of the Ruhr.
Legal regulations
In the landscape protection area Märkischer Kreis, among other things, the erection of buildings is prohibited. Construction projects for horticulture, agriculture and forestry are exempt from the ban. Initial afforestation and the new planting of Christmas tree cultures, ornamental twigs and tree nursery cultures are subject to official approval from the Lower Nature Conservation Authority .
See also
literature
- District government Arnsberg: Ordinance of the regulatory authority establishing the landscape protection area "Märkischer Kreis" in the administrative district of Arnsberg of August 18, 2006 , Official Gazette for the administrative district of Arnsberg, September 2, 2009 No. 35, pp. 295–298.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 11 " N , 7 ° 41 ′ 38.4" E