Meppen cow pasture

Meppen cow pasture IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Meppener cow pasture, right in the picture the Ems
location	Southwest of Meppen , Emsland district , Lower Saxony
surface	65 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 157
WDPA ID	164609
Geographical location	52 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 35 ″  E
Sea level	from 12 m to 17 m
Setup date	December 31, 1999
administration	NLWKN

The Meppener Kuhweide is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxon town of Meppen in the Emsland district .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG WE 157 is 65  hectares in size. It is almost completely part of the FFH area "Ems". The area has been a nature reserve since December 31, 1999. It replaces the designated nature reserve of the same name on February 23, 1985, with which the juniper grove in the north of the current reserve was placed under protection. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Emsland.

The nature reserve is located southwest of Meppen in a bend in the Ems . It preserves a river dune landscape with an old arm of the Ems and a preserved of the once typical of the Ems Hudelandschaft . The pasture areas that for centuries as a commons were used willow, are of sandy dry grasslands dominated and juniper - and sloe bushes interspersed. In the southern part of the nature reserve there is a hut forest that is still grazed. Here are oaks predominate. In the east of the nature reserve, as in the adjacent areas, oil is extracted.

In the north of the nature reserve there is a circular route, the Werner-Menne-Path, from which parts of the nature reserve can be experienced. At the jetty in Rühle on the opposite bank, an information board indicates the sand martin colony living on a natural steep bank in the nature reserve .

Web links

Commons : Meppener Kuhweide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Meppener Kuhweide" nature reserve ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Local Agenda 21, Meppen working group