Breitenbruch-Neuhaus nature reserve

Breitenbruch-Neuhaus nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Forest in the Breitenbruch-Neuhaus NSG (2010)
location	Arnsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	22.891 km²
Identifier	HSK-043
WDPA ID	318236
Natura 2000 ID	DE-4514-302
Geographical location	51 ° 26 '  N , 8 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '35 "  N , 8 ° 4' 29"  E
Setup date	1991
Framework plan	Landscape plan Arnsberg
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Hochsauerlandkreis

The Breitenbruch-Neuhaus nature reserve with a size of 2,289.1  hectares is located around Breitenbruch in the Upper Arnsberg Forest in the urban area of Arnsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis . It was designated as a nature reserve (NSG) in 1991 by the Arnsberg district government . In 1998, with the Arnsberg landscape plan, the Hochsauerland district reassigned it as a NSG. The NSG is cut by the federal road 229 and the district road 8. The NSG is located in the north directly on the border with the municipality of Möhnesee and the Arnsberg Forest nature reserve there . The Wannebach nature reserve is partially adjacent to the west . With these nature reserves it belongs to the 7,991 hectare FFH area Arnsberg Forest (DE-4514-302).

Area description

In the NSG it is the forest area there. The forest is mainly planted with red beech and red spruce . Several streams with alder trees in the floodplain also belong to the NSG.

Protection purpose

The NSG is to protect the forest area with species inventory. As with all nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation indicated that the area was declared a nature reserve “because of the rarity, special character and beauty of the area”.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Hochsauerlandkreis

literature

• Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Landscape plan Arnsberg , Meschede 1998, pp. 25–30 u. 49-50.

Web links

Commons : Breitenbruch-Neuhaus nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• "Breitenbruch-Neuhaus" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia