Altmuehltal Nature Park

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Altmuehltal Nature Park
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location Franconian Alb
surface 2962 km²
Identifier NP-00016
Geographical location 48 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '4 "  N , 11 ° 13' 37"  E
Altmühltal Nature Park (Bavaria)
Altmuehltal Nature Park
Setup date 1969
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The Altmühltal Nature Park is a 2962 km² nature park in Bavaria , the extent of which is almost congruent with the natural spatial main unit of the Southern Franconian Alb . It is located immediately north of the city ​​of Ingolstadt on the Danube and is divided into a north and a south half by the Altmühltal, which gives it its name .

The nature park was brought into being on July 25, 1969 in Pappenheim by the association "Nature Park Altmühltal (Southern Franconian Alb)". After the Black Forest Middle / North , Bergstrasse-Odenwald and Southern Black Forest nature parks , it is the fourth largest nature park in Germany.

geography

location

Location and topography of the nature park

The Altmühltal Nature Park is located in the administrative districts of Middle Franconia , Upper Bavaria , Lower Bavaria , Swabia and Upper Palatinate . It extends largely in the district of Eichstätt , also in the districts of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , Donau-Ries , Neumarkt , Regensburg , Roth , Kelheim and Neuburg-Schrobenhausen and with small parts in the area of ​​the independent city of Ingolstadt .

The nature park lies between Pleinfeld in the north, Kelheim in the southeast, Ingolstadt in the south and Donauwörth in the southwest; these four localities are right on the park boundary. The central parking location is Eichstätt . The Altmühl , which gives it its name , flows roughly in a west-east direction through the nature park, which is part of the Main-Danube Canal in its lower reaches and flows into the Danube , which runs immediately south of the park, on the south-eastern edge of the park after flowing through the Kelheim core city .

cities and communes

Cities and municipalities within or on the edge of the Altmühltal Nature Park are:

landscape

Typical juniper heather

The nature park is characterized by the low mountain range of the southern Franconian Alb. Typical landscape features are dry grasslands , juniper heath , wet meadows, rocks, karst caves and quarries . About half of the nature park area is forested. The Altmühl flows through the nature park. The construction of the Main-Danube Canal through the Altmühltal, which opened in 1992, was politically controversial. An attempt was made to create natural riparian zones along the curved lines and to let wet biotopes arise again. The former river bed of the Altmühl was converted into oxbow lakes, so that the landscape around the canal looks like a natural idyll at first glance. Nevertheless, the construction of the canal was a serious ecological intervention.

View from a distance of 15 km from a hill near Oettingen to the Hahnenkamm wind farm near Degersheim

Since the beginning of this century, the wind turbines built as part of the energy transition have been increasingly changing the character of the nature park and landscape protection areas. In the area of ​​the nature park, the Hahnenkamm wind park , which is located near Degersheim , has had twelve wind turbines since 2011. In 2001 the construction of the Weißenburg-Oberhochstatt wind farm began , which has consisted of ten rotors since 2014. In June 2016, the groundbreaking ceremony for “Bavaria's largest forest wind farm”, which is to consist of “ten large wind turbines”, took place within the protected landscape area in the Altmühltal nature park in the Raitenbucher Forest .

Protected areas

NSG "Twelve Apostles"
Walled caves
The Märzenbecherwald

A large part (1632.9606 km²) of the nature park is designated as a protected landscape area in the Altmühltal nature park (LSG-00565.01, WDPA: 396115).

There are also numerous nature reserves here .

leisure

Leisure activities include boat trips on the Main-Danube Canal, boat trips, cycling, hiking, climbing, gliding as well as studying the fossil treasures from the Jura quarries and visiting Celtic traces of settlement and ancient Roman evidence. Nearby destinations are z. B. the neighboring Geopark Ries or the Franconian Lake District .

View of the Altmühltal from Prunn Castle

activities

hike

To go biking

Climb

Burgstein near Dollnstein

In the Frankenjura there are suitable routes for every type of climbing.

Children collecting fossils in the Altmühltal

Fossils

In the Altmühltal Nature Park there are numerous quarries in which slab limestone is extracted. These plate limestones arose from the lagoons of the Jurassic Sea and so numerous fossils can be found here. Visitor quarries offer the opportunity to go on a journey of discovery yourself.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Altmühltal Nature Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Altmühltal Nature Park  - Travel Guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Area of ​​the nature park:
    - 2962 km²: List of nature parks (Verband Deutscher Naturparke), accessed on August 20, 2014,
    according to other information on naturparke.de :
    - 2967 km²: The Altmühltal nature park , accessed on October 12, 2016, on naturpark-altmuehltal.de (PDF; 67.16 kB)
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
    • Map service landscapes shows the boundaries of individual partial landscapes and makes landscape profiles with area information (82xxx = Southern Franconian Alb) clickable (JavaScript required, very limited browser compatibility)
    • Map service for protected areas shows mountain heights down to TK 25;
      Nature reserves, FFH areas, nature parks (each with area information), main units and municipal boundaries can be faded in (Flash required)
  3. ↑ Altmühltal Nature Park , accessed on April 24, 2014, from openstreetmap.org
  4. ↑ The Altmühltal Nature Park , accessed on October 12, 2016, at naturpark-altmuehltal.de (PDF; 67.16 kB)
  5. ↑ Flyer: Altmühltal Nature Park - Hiking (with a map of the nature park boundary), on naturpark-altmuehltal.de (PDF; 2.04 MB)
  6. ↑ Wind power also in the landscape protection area , accessed on October 6, 2016, on klimaretter.info
  7. ↑ Starting signal for Bavaria's largest forest wind farm , from June 28, 2016, accessed on October 11, 2016, on nordbayern.de
  8. ↑ Protection zone in the "Altmühltal" nature park , accessed on December 24, 2015, at protectedplanet.net