Lech-Danube angle
The Lech-Donau-Winkel is a German Ramsar area in Bavaria , listed under the international Ramsar number 91. When the Lech-Donau-Winkel joined as a Ramsar area, the area was classified as an important Category 6 bird sanctuary .
Development of the Lech-Donau-Winkel
The accession of this area to the Ramsar Convention took place on February 26, 1976 with an initial 239 hectares. 91 hectares of this was accounted for by the Lech barrage at Feldheim and 148 hectares by the Danube barrier at Bertoldsheim . At that time, the area was classified as a Category 6 Significant Bird Sanctuary Wetland.
In 2007 the extension to around 4014 hectares of total area took place on the basis of a late notification by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment from August 2005. This area expansion from 239 ha to 4014 ha was essentially based on the addition of already existing flood-inundation areas, at the same time the Ramsar criteria 5 and 6 (water birds) were downgraded or removed from the area description; according to the RIS, the current reporting level only includes the Ramsar- Criteria 1 with 3. With this current status, the Lech-Donau-Winkel is also subject to the European Natura 2000 species protection program .
Territory area
The area, which is of central importance for the European bird migration, essentially comprises two main bodies of water: the Bertoldsheimer Danube river basin largely on the corridor of the market town of Rennertshofen in the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen with approx. 110 ha of open water area (a small part on the corridor of the Marxheim community in the Donau-Ries district ) as well as the Feldheimer Lech barrage up the Danube on the surface of the community of Niederschönenfeld with around 91 ha. In both there are shallow water zones as well as gravel and sand banks, dead wood is also regularly brought in as resting and resting places as part of water maintenance. Other noteworthy individual areas are the Donaualtwasser Schnödhof (nature reserve) with some surrounding old quarry ponds , the Schönenfelder Moos and the Staudheimer Moor. In addition, the Danube-Lech-Winkel has a mixed landscape of forest, alluvial forest, floodplain, partly extensively used agricultural land and a large number of smaller Danube backwaters and smaller water areas from gravel extraction.
Both the Bertoldsheim barrage on the Danube and the Feldheim barrage on the Lech are used to generate electrical energy in surge operation.
In addition to moderate leisure activities on the water in summer (surfing, canoeing, sailing) and hobby fishing, the Bertoldsheim barrage is a popular destination for bird lovers in autumn and winter because of the good observation opportunities.
See also
Web links
- The Lech-Donau-Winkel in the ramsar.org directory
- Ramsar Information Sheet (PDF)
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 24 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E