Nature reserve Auf der Mark

The nature reserve Auf der Mark is a 12.13 hectare nature reserve (NSG) in the municipality of Kierspe in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The NSG was designated in 2003 by the district council of the Märkischer Kreis with the landscape plan No. 7 Kierspe .

Area description

The NSG is a forest-moor biotope complex. There is a source area with oak and birch forests rich in lichen, peat moss and pipe grass and an adjoining natural stream area. In the forest area there is a brook-alder-ash forest, alder-swamp forest, bog birch break forest and oak-birch forest. In the NSG there is also a juniper heather and a small slope moor with typical moor vegetation. It is surrounded by a 90% covered peat moss cushion, in which the downy birch and the red alder occur in roughly equal proportions. The alders and birches are dying off locally, so that there is a lot of dead wood with lichen growth. In the adjacent spruce forest, several sources with little vegetation arise, whose spring channels overgrown with peat moss then flow through the alder-birch forest.

Protection purpose

The nature reserve was designated for the preservation and development of a forest-bog biotope complex and as a habitat for endangered animal and plant species. As with other nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation indicated that the area became a nature reserve “because of its scenic beauty and uniqueness”.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Märkisches Kreis

literature

• Märkischer Kreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Märkischer Kreis: Landscape Plan No. 5 Kierspe , Lüdenscheid 2003, pp. 49–51.

Web links

• Nature reserve "Auf der Mark" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 11 ″  E