List of nature reserves in the Bamberg district

In the district of Bamberg , there are 14 nature reserves . The gray heron colony near Dippach am Main , the largest nature reserve in terms of area, established in 1998 , is almost entirely in the neighboring district of Haßberge and is therefore not included in this list. The largest nature reserve on this list is the Waldhaus natural forest reserve with a wetland in the Handthalgrund north-west of Ebrach .

Surname	image	Identifier	circle	details	position	Area hectares	date
Börstig near Hallstadt		NSG-00477.01 WDPA: 162516	Bamberg district	Hallstadt Remnant of a larger sand area with dry sand grass and light pine forest.	⊙	13.72	1956
Burglesau valley		NSG-00359.01 WDPA: 162656	Bamberg district	Burglesau valley with special natural beauty. Near-natural flowing water.	⊙	56.81	1986
Slopes on the Kraiberg		NSG-00463.01 WDPA: 163520	Bamberg district	Baunach Characteristic landscape through hillside location, surface design, vegetation and cultivation with a large variety of species, biotopes and structures.	⊙	65.7	1994
Slopes on Spitzlberg and Kunkelsbühl		NSG-00332.01 WDPA: 163521	Bamberg district	Staffelbach Former vineyard slopes with a mosaic of bushes, hedges, grasslands and other vegetation.	⊙	21.66	1988
Leidingshofer valley		NSG-00292.01 WDPA: 164419	Bamberg district	Leidingshof Gorge-like Jura valley with typical vegetation, especially rock vegetation, semi-arid grassland, shrub succession, beech and steep slope forest.	⊙	22.51	1986
Main valley arm near Dörfleins		NSG-00371.01 WDPA: 164550	Bamberg district	Dörflein's longest back arm in the Upper Franconian Main Valley. Typical communities as well as locations from alluvial forest remnants to open water areas.	⊙	12.67	1990
Brunnstube natural forest reserve		NSG-00589.01 WDPA: 318828	Bamberg district	Ebrach Natural and characteristic deciduous forest communities. Large, uncut, poorly structured, mixed deciduous forests with near-natural local tree species composition.	⊙	49.15	2001
Lohn Valley natural forest reserve		NSG-00202.01 WDPA: 164760	Bamberg district	Lohndorf Rare and characteristic deciduous forest communities on the Jura edge in the south.	⊙	51.36	1984
Waldhaus natural forest reserve with wetland in the Handthalgrund		NSG-00566.01 WDPA: 318840	Bamberg district	Ebrach deciduous forest communities of the Steigerwald, natural and characteristic.	⊙	107.56	2000
Sandgrassheide Pettstadt		NSG-00111.01 WDPA: 82485	Bamberg district	Pettstadt Relic occurrences of the vegetation type sandgrass heather, which used to be widespread in the Regnitz and Main valleys, on the terrace sands of the Regnitz.	⊙	7.33	1978
Lock peninsula and oxbow lake at Viereth	BW	NSG-00657.01 WDPA: 344835	Bamberg district	Viereth Ecologically very valuable peninsula and adjacent oxbow and oxbow water areas.	⊙	26.21	2005
Spitzberg near Ebrach	BW	NSG-00320.01 WDPA: 165617	Bamberg district	Ebrach Near-natural and species-rich mixed deciduous forest with a high proportion of old wood.	⊙	25.53	1987
Stocksee and surroundings		NSG-00738.01 WDPA: 378367	Bamberg district	Memmelsdorf Ecologically extremely valuable lake with riparian zones and adjacent meadows and forest areas.	⊙	30.63	2006
Weihergrund near Ebrach		NSG-00335.01 WDPA: 166209	Bamberg district	Ebrach Near-natural valley section on the upper reaches of the Mittelebrach with a diverse mosaic of habitats.	⊙	24.72	1988
Legend for nature reserve

Individual evidence

↑ Green list of nature reserves in Upper Franconia. (PDF; 106 kB) Bavarian State Office for the Environment, December 31, 2014, accessed on May 23, 2016 .