Lehrdetal

Lehrdetal
Apprenticeship with Wittlohe
location	Lehrdetal southwest of Visselhövede , districts of Rotenburg (Wümme) , Heidekreis and Verden , Lower Saxony
surface	441 ha
Identifier	NSG LÜ 347
WDPA ID	322555
Geographical location	52 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '5 "  N , 9 ° 27' 24"  E
Sea level	from 14 m to 63 m
Setup date	1st February 2019

The Lehrdetal is a nature reserve in the town of Visselhövede in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district , in the town of Walsrode in the Heidekreis district and in the municipality of Kirchlinteln in the Verden district in Lower Saxony .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG LÜ 347 is around 441  hectares in size. It is largely part of the FFH area “Lehrde und Eich”. The nature reserve borders on the nature reserve " Eich " near Kettenburg and shortly before the confluence of the Lehrde in the Aller on the nature reserve " Untere Allerniederung in the district of Verden ". Otherwise, it is often the conservation area "Lehrdetal" or the conservation area " Lehrdewiesen surrounded." The landscape protection areas "Lehrdetal" and "Lehrdetal im Landkreis Verden" were included in the scope of the Nature Conservation Ordinance. In addition, the Nature Conservation Ordinance replaces the "Ordinance of the Lüneburg District Government on the protection of the habitat for otters and kingfisher at and on the teaching in the range from Stellichte to Stemmen" from 1983. The area has been under nature protection since February 1, 2019. Responsible lower nature conservation authorities are the districts of Rotenburg (Wümme), Heidekreis and Verden.

description

The nature reserve stretches for around 30 km along the valley of the Lehrde between Limmerberg, southwest of Visselhövede to the Allerdeich before the mouth of the Lehrde into the Aller. It includes the course of the river Lehrde with its bank areas and, above Stemmen, also other areas of the valley and the river's lowland. In some places there are still waters in the lowlands, some of which have arisen from oxbow lakes of the Lehrde. The Lehrde is largely natural as a flowing body of water with flooding water vegetation and is subject to its natural water dynamics. It has been straightened in places between Kettenburg and Stellichte . As soon as it enters the nature reserve north of Kettenburg, the river is initially lined with alder , alluvial forests and swamp forests , before entering areas used as grassland above Stellichte . As a result, grassland and groves that accompany the waterway alternate before forests join the Lehrde valley below Stellichte on the heath circle side. The forests are characterized as swamp forests and moist oak-hornbeam forests . At the edge of the valley, they merge into grove, beech and mixed oak forests. From about the crossing of the Lehrde through Kreisstraße 22, the lowlands of the Lehrde are dominated by grasslands and initially further forests on the side of the Heidekreis. Below the crossing of the Lehrde by the Kreisstraße 30, the Lehrde flows through a lowland with areas used for agriculture as grassland and sometimes also arable land.

The woods that accompany the water are often designed as gallery forests along the Lehrde. The predominant tree species are black alder and ash . The shrub layer is populated by the European eels' cone , common bird cherry , gray willow, blackthorn and hazel , the herb layer is made up of gundermann , corner sedge , rush , chickweed , lady fern , forest ziest , lesser celandine , meadowsweet , ground grass and giant fescue. In places, reed grass forms flat stands.

The grassland areas are subject to different intensities of use. Areas used as hay meadows are of particular importance for nature conservation . The areas in the area of ​​the lower reaches of the Lehrde are flooded during floods. Here, too, the teaching is predominantly accompanied by trees. Small areas of forest are still growing below the crossing through Kreisstraße 30. In addition to the trees that accompany the water, there are also tall herbaceous meadows along the banks . Furthermore, reed beds as well as sedges and rushes are formed in the nature reserve . In marshland areas, small areas of bog forests grow . Furthermore, humid are Heiden with Glockenheide , heather , peat lily , Beak Ried and peat moss and peat moss-Schlenken formed.

The nature reserve is u. a. Habitat of the Green Snaketail as well as otters and beavers and bats Greater mouse-eared , Bechstein's bat and Barbastelle and Daubenton's bat , Natterer's bat , Brandt's bat , whiskered bat , Noctule , Serotine , Pipistrelle , Common Pipistrelle , Soprano pipistrelle and brown long-eared . The reed beds offer grasshopper warbler , marsh warbler , reed warbler and reed bunting a suitable habitat. Furthermore, u. a. Blackcatcher and red-backed killer native. In the teaching are u. a. Brook and river lamprey are native. The area above the crossing of the nature reserve by Autobahn 27 is the feeding habitat of the black stork .

Web links

Commons : Lehrdetal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Lehrdetal" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lehrde and Eich , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Accessed January 31, 2019.
2. ^ Ordinance of the Lüneburg district government on the protection of the habitat for otters and kingfisher at and on the Lehrde in the area from Stellichte to Stemmen , Lüneburg district government , March 18, 1983 (PDF; 76 kB). Accessed January 31, 2019.
3. ↑ Werner Eikhorst: Breeding birds on the lower reaches of the Lehrde in 2007 - short report on behalf of the Verden district, specialist service for nature conservation and landscape management , October 2007 (PDF; 2.5 MB). Accessed January 31, 2019.