Bilstein nature reserve (Sundern)

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The Bilstein nature reserve with a size of 12.4  hectares is located north of Hachen in the urban area of Sundern (Sauerland) . The area was designated as a nature reserve (NSG) with an area of ​​13.1 hectares for the first time in 1993 with the Sundern landscape plan by the district council of the Hochsauerlandkreis . When the landscape planner Sundern was reorganized, the NSG was again identified and reduced in size. The NSG is directly adjacent to the Sundern nature reserve .

description

The NSG is a valuable, near-natural deciduous forest with natural limestone rock biotopes (rock cliffs and debris heaps) and a former quarry. The Bilstein rocks are about 20 m high lichen-covered limestone rocks in the south of the NSG. In the west of the NSG there is a rock band up to 5 m high. On the block rubble directly below the Bilstein, a small-scale summer linden-elm-hillside rubble forest grows. The former mountain elms have fallen victim to the dying of the elm , but are still standing as dead wood on the slope. The hillside rubble forest merges into a woodruff or pearl grass beech forest, which is rich in structure and old wood, which appears to be extremely species-rich in mostly south-eastern exposures. It extends past the up to 50 m high quarry wall to the northern edge of the NSG. On the Hainsimsen-Buchenwald locations in the west of the NSG, there is mostly beech-oak forest of strong tree-wood age, as well as old spruce. The abandoned limestone quarry in the east of the NSG, including the rock face, is largely overgrown with pioneer trees such as birch and ash. For the region there is an unusually species-rich herb layer in the structurally rich, indigenous deciduous forest with numerous regionally rare plant species. This biodiversity as well as the natural limestone cliffs and the quarry make up the special importance of the area within the regional biotope network .

Protection purpose

The NSG is supposed to protect the forest, the rocks, the rubble heaps and the former quarry with the respective species inventory. As with all nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation pointed out that the area became a nature reserve “because of the rarity, special character and beauty of the area”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Landscape plan Sundern , Meschede 1993, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Landscape plan Sundern - reorganization, p. 37 ff. (PDF) Retrieved on May 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 20.8 ″  E