List of Ramsar areas in Germany

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Ramsar sites are closed after the 1971 Ramsar Convention protected wetlands of international importance, according to the intention of the international international treaty in particular as a habitat for water and wading birds .

Germany currently has 34 Ramsar areas (as of May 2016), e.g. B. Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony Wadden Sea , Elbe and Danube floodplains , Müritz- Ostufer, Ammer and Chiemsee , Havelniederungen and Gülper See , Rieselfelder Münster .

Basics

The agreement, named after the place where the contract was concluded, the Iranian city of Ramsar , is one of the oldest international agreements on environmental protection . Germany ratified the agreement on February 26, 1976 (as the 11th state), and the convention including the amendments of the Extraordinary Conference of the Contracting Parties in Regina, Canada, of 1987 ( Regina Amendments , came into force on 1 May 1994).

The headquarters of the International Ramsar Secretariat for monitoring the implementation of the Convention and its further development is in Gland on Lake Geneva.

List of Ramsar areas

(TRS) = cross-border

country Name of the area location Size
in ha 		Height in
m above sea level 		Expulsion
date
Lower Saxony Wadden Sea , Elbe-Weser Triangle 53 ° 50 '  N , 8 ° 24'  E 38,460 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony Wadden Sea , Jade Bay & western mouth of the Weser 53 ° 40 ′  N , 8 ° 19 ′  E 49,490 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony Wadden Sea , East Frisian Wadden Sea & Dollart 53 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 21'  E 121,620 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony Niederelbe , Barnkrug - Otterndorf 53 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E 11,760 0-4 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony Elbe , Schnackenburg - Lauenburg 53 ° 8 '  N , 11 ° 5'  E 7,560 9-34 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony dumber 52 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E 3,600 37-39 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony Diepholzer Moorniederung 52 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 48'  E 15,060 36-51 February 26, 1976
Lower Saxony steinhuder sea 52 ° 28 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E 5,730 38-42 February 26, 1976
Hessen , Rhineland-Palatinate Rheinauen between Eltville am Rhein and Bingen am Rhein 50 ° 0 '  N , 8 ° 0'  E 566 80 February 26, 1976
Baden-Württemberg Lake Constance : Wollmatinger Ried - Giehrenmoos & Mindelsee 47 ° 41 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E 1,286 406-460 February 26, 1976
Bavaria Donaumoos 48 ° 28 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E 8,000 440 February 26, 1976
Bavaria Lech-Danube angle 48 ° 44 '  N , 11 ° 0'  E 4.014 393 February 26, 1976
Bavaria Ismaninger reservoir & fish ponds 48 ° 13 '  N , 11 ° 41'  E 955 496 February 26, 1976
Bavaria Ammersee 48 ° 1 '  N , 11 ° 8'  E 6,517 533-545 February 26, 1976
Bavaria starnberger Lake 47 ° 45 '  N , 11 ° 18'  E 5,720 584 February 26, 1976
Bavaria Chiemsee 47 ° 53 '  N , 12 ° 29'  E 8,660 518 February 26, 1976
Bavaria Lower Inn , Haiming- Neuhaus 48 ° 20 '  N , 13 ° 9'  E 1,955 320-350 February 26, 1976
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Baltic Sea Bodden Waters West Rügen - Hiddensee - Zingst 54 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 45'  E 25,800 0-73 July 31, 1978
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Krakower Obersee 53 ° 37 '  N , 12 ° 18'  E 870 48-50 July 31, 1978
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania East bank of Müritz 53 ° 27 '  N , 12 ° 49'  E 4,830 63-82 July 31, 1978
Brandenburg , Saxony-Anhalt Lower Havel / Gülper See , Schollener See 52 ° 45 '  N , 12 ° 13'  E 8,920 23-40 July 31, 1978
Brandenburg Lower Odertal , Schwedt 53 ° 4 '  N , 14 ° 19'  E 5,400 July 31, 1978
Brandenburg Peitzer pond area 51 ° 51 '  N , 14 ° 25'  E 1,060 July 31, 1978
Thuringia , Saxony-Anhalt Berga-Kelbra reservoir 51 ° 26 '  N , 11 ° 0'  E 1,453 150 July 31, 1978
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Galenbeck Lake 53 ° 38 '  N , 13 ° 44'  E 1,015 9 July 31, 1978
North Rhine-Westphalia Rieselfelder Münster 52 ° 2 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E 233 49-52 October 28, 1983
North Rhine-Westphalia Schluesselburg barrage 52 ° 27 '  N , 8 ° 59'  E 1,600 32-40 October 28, 1983
North Rhine-Westphalia Lower Rhine 51 ° 43 '  N , 6 ° 14'  E 25,000 7-27 October 28, 1983
Hamburg Hamburg Wadden Sea 53 ° 53 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E 11,700 -9-5 August 1, 1990
Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and adjacent coastal areas 54 ° 30 '  N , 8 ° 40'  E 454.988 -15-50 November 15, 1991
Hamburg Mühlenberger Loch 53 ° 32 '  N , 9 ° 48'  E 675 0 June 9, 1992
Saxony-Anhalt Aland-Elbe-Niederung and Elbaue Jerichow 52 ° 45 '  N , 11 ° 49'  E 8,605 20-35 February 21, 2003
Bavaria Bavarian Wildalm (TRS) 47 ° 35 '  N , 11 ° 47'  E 7th 1425-1470 October 9, 2007
Baden-Württemberg Upper Rhine between Weil am Rhein and Karlsruhe (TRS) 48 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E 25.117 130-270 August 28, 2008
Status: 2/2008, ramsar.org

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ramsar: Germany.
  2. ^ The text of the Ramsar Convention and other key original documents. ramsar.org, accessed in 2010 (current text with amendments, original text, status of ratifications, etc.).
  3. ^ Transboundary Ramsar sites. In: ramsar.org> Documents. November 16, 2009, accessed June 2010 .