NJK ponds
| NKJ ponds | ||
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| Geographical location | Schulenburg (Langenhagen) , Hanover region , Lower Saxony | |
| Tributaries | no | |
| Drain | none | |
| Location close to the shore | Langenhagen , Hanover | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '43 " N , 9 ° 40' 9" E | |
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particularities |
partially filled clay pit ; |
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The NJK ponds in Langenhagen , Schulenburg district , form an artificially influenced wet biotope with specially protected plants and animals. The small ponds on the grounds of the Lower Saxony Hunting Club Hannover (NJK) near Hannover-Langenhagen Airport are kept open for walkers.
History and description
In the course of industrialization , people removed the near-ground layers of clay in open-cast mining to supply the numerous brickworks between Schulenburg and Kananohe . As a result, a large clay pit was created at the site of today's NJK ponds , which over time filled with water and formed a large pond.
For decades, the area of water next to the former Ruhrgas storage facility, the site of which was later taken over by the NJK, formed an apparently idyllic lake with its embankment with numerous fish species, some of which could be fished by the local fishing clubs.
In the course of the expansion of the airport in Langenhagen, as a result of which the former village of Schulenburg-Nord almost completely disappeared, the airport management identified the NKJ pond as a “potential water area for large birds” and thus a “ bird strike ” risk for those taking off and taking off landing aircraft. In the interests of passenger safety, the airport operator therefore applied to the Hanover region to pump out the NJK pond and convert it into smaller wetlands. As a result, from autumn 2012 the pond was pumped almost completely empty and the fish stock was fished, partly as food for the Hanover Zoo , partly as stock for other ponds of various fishing clubs. Subsequently, the NJK pond was to be largely backfilled within five years by truckloads of excavated earth. Since this only partially succeeded, the region extended its so-called “planning approval decision” in 2017 for a further four years, but with the condition that counts of the livestock that were now at home on the wetland were carried out in certain periods of time.
In 2018, animal counts by the Langenhagener Ortsverein des Naturschutzbund (NABU) brought the first successes to light. In the now small-scale water surface surrounded by reeds, a tree frog was found among countless tadpoles of frogs . The animal species, which places high demands on their habitat and is under nature conservation in Europe, apparently sought out the wetland to reproduce on its own initiative. In the same year was at a subsequent check crested newt is found, also a strictly protected species .
Web links
- Elke Meier: Statement (on the plan approval procedure) , document from the NABU Lower Saxony to the Hanover Department Environment from October 18, 2011 (PDF document)
- o. V .: Feasibility study and soil management Tongrube Schulenburg-Nord as a reference from ukon Umweltkonzepte
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Rebekka Neander: Langenhagen / Laubfrosch ennobles biotope in the old NJK pond ... , article on the page of the daily newspaper Schaumburger Nachrichten of October 11, 2018, last accessed on October 8, 2019
- ↑ . O V. : Schulenburg-Nord / end - and a little bit more ... , designs on the side of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 21, 2013, last downloaded 8 October 2019