Protected landscape area Lower Elpe Valley

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The landscape protection area Unteres Elpetal with 2.66  hectares is located north of Ostwig in the municipality of Bestwig in the Hochsauerlandkreis . The area was designated as a landscape protection area in 2008 with the Bestwig landscape plan by the district council of the Hochsauerlandkreis . The river Elpe and the floodplain are located in the LSG . The LSG is one of 17 landscape protection areas in the municipality of Bestwig. In the municipality there is one type A landscape protection area, ten type B landscape protection areas and six type C landscape protection areas.

The landscape protection area Unteres Elpetal was designated as LSG of type C, meadow valleys and significant extensive grassland in the municipality of Bestwig. As in the other type C landscape protection areas in the Bestwig landscape planning area, this LSG prohibits the conversion of grassland and fallow grassland into arable land or other forms of use. First afforestation and the creation of Christmas tree crops is prohibited. A maximum of two years of arable use within twelve years is permitted, provided that this prepares the renewal of the sward. This is considered an extended nursing shift . In the case of extended care changes , a minimum distance of five meters from the central water bed must be maintained.

Protection purpose

The designation was made to supplement the nature reserve designation in the valley floodplains of Bestwig to create a network of open-land biotopes so that animals and plants can keep migrating and spreading, and to preserve the occurrence of protected bird species and the protection of species-rich plant communities.

According to the landscape plan, the unobstructed streams like the Elpe represent outstanding refuge and networking biotopes. The preservation of grassland also serves to protect groundwater and flowing water, as well as to protect biotopes and species .

See also

• List of landscape protection areas in the Hochsauerlandkreis

literature

• Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower landscape authority: Landscape plan Bestwig (PDF; 915 kB). Meschede 2008, p. 75 ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 55.5 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 48"  E