Lenther Chaussee
The Lenther Chaussee on the western outskirts of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover is a Chaussee in the course of the district road K 49 . The road touches the Badenstedt-West development area in the Badenstedt district and crosses the Benther-Berg-Vorland / Fössetal conservation area to the west towards the Benther Berg . The street, which is also very busy in the evening, cuts through "[...] one of the most important amphibian occurrences in the region " and is the scene of "[...] one of the oldest nature conservation projects in the district group" of the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND): around a quarter century were long from 1983 along the road honorary example, up to 2,000 toads collected annually in buckets and thus protected from the Verkehrstod before these ecologically important work in a "[...] the species - and at the same time individuals richest habitats of amphibians in the area the city of Hanover and the surrounding area ”. Today, a tunnel under the road, which is unique in Hanover, in conjunction with a stable so-called " amphibious guide" enables the crawling animals to cross the road safely into the wetlands and spawning areas on both sides of Lenther Chaussee.
history
The Lenther Chaussee is part of the historic road from Badenstedt to Lenthe , which was officially named Lenther Straße in 1909 from Badenstedter Straße . It was not until 1986 that the part of the country road west of Am Soltekamp was renamed Lenther Chaussee . At this time, numerous common toads in the landscape protection area had been victims of automobile traffic for decades, especially when they migrated to their spawning grounds such as the Badeborn pond south of Lenther Chaussee in late winter . From 1983 onwards, the animals were initially prevented from crossing the street every year from February with the help of a mobile and newly installed amphibian protection fence. Regularly so on and collected toads were then conservationists like that of Ronnenberg coming Gerhard Felchner from the Wildlife Protection Society of Germany (NABU) or Karsten guest man from BUND using buckets across the street and directly to the standing water borne. Finally, in the year of the Expo 2000, not least for the amphibians migrating from the north, the "double ponds" were created north of Lenther Chaussee and - in the hope of alleged "spawning grounds" - the animals were brought to these new ponds. Because of the toads, which usually only spawn once in a lifetime, thousands upon thousands of young animals were born there; nevertheless, up to 2000 animals wanted to migrate to the ponds south of the road every year. The toad fence campaigns by the conservationists were therefore less sustainable , but more or less merely secured the status quo of the animal population by containing the losses from road traffic through their high voluntary work.
In 2002, the Bund circle group was financially supported by the Lower Saxony Environment Foundation a report to the Working Group on habitat and species protection from Neustadt am Rübenberge in order to demonstrate mainly to "[...] an action plan for the permanent solution of the problem" . The work of the biologists Tobias Wagner and Dirk Herrmann , which was then presented , not only gave a quantitative description of the amphibian population and its significance, but also brought completely new knowledge about the spawning migrations of the common toad .
Subsequently, the BUND discussed together with the Green Spaces Office of the City of Hanover (today: Department of Environment and Urban Green of the State Capital Hanover), the Lower Nature Conservation Authority of the Hanover Region and the State Office for Ecology (today: Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN )) Various options for a sustainable mitigation of the problems, as a result of which only a permanent barrier and amphibian protection facility and a toad tunnel under Lenther Chaussee were offered - despite the estimated construction costs on the already existing road of more than 100,000 euros at the time. In cooperation with the Hanoverian Green Space Agency, an application for funding was made to the Lower Saxony Bingo Environment Foundation and additional funds were raised by the state capital, which also professionally created or renatured new spawning waters and rural habitats in the landscape. In addition, the costs were reduced through voluntary work by the BUND. Since 2007, the laborious collection of common toads has finally been eliminated thanks to the newly built “amphibious control facility” with a tunnel. on the Lenther Chaussee. However, the BUND has announced further morning “catch bucket” campaigns for the Benther Berg area outside the boundaries of the state capital, until a similar technical solution is also set up there.
In the meantime, the newly created "double ponds" north of the Chaussee have developed into one of the most important bodies of water for the European tree frog .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c N.N. : Articles - Landscape protection area // Benther Berg Vorland / Fössetal , PDF document on the hannover.de page , published on May 31, 2011 by the Official Gazette for the Hanover District No. 10/00
- ↑ a b c d e f g h N.N .: For the history of amphibian protection on Lenther Chaussee on the page region-hannover.bund.net of the BUND district group Region Hannover in the Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), Landesverband Niedersachsen eV, last accessed on January 11, 2016
- ↑ Sabine Erdbrink: Single-family house office of the city of Hanover / New building area in Badenstedt-West / You can't get closer to nature: Anyone who decides to buy a property in Badenstedt-West is building in a scenic location. ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 16, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e f Ulrich Schmersow (text), Silke Beck, Antje Brink, Anja Rischel (red.): The Benther-Berg-Vorland / Fössetal ; Leaflet ed. from the state capital Hanover, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hanover: 2007; downloadable as a PDF document from hannover.de
- ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Lenther Chaussee , as well as Lenther Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 158
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E