Elberskamp nature reserve

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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 55 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 6 ″  E

Relief map: North Rhine-Westphalia
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Elberskamp is a 9.64 hectare nature reserve (NSG) in the municipality of Finnentrop in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located southwest of the Finnentrop district of Heggen , southwest of the core town of Finnentrop and northwest of the Bigge . It was designated as a NSG for the first time in 1985 by the Arnsberg district government . With the landscape plan no. 3 Attendorn - Heggen - Helden , the NSG was designated again in 2006 and enlarged to include marginal areas. The NSG is one of ten sub-areas of the fauna-flora-habitat area, beech forests, limestone semi -dry grasslands and rocks south of Finnentrop (DE-4813-301).

Area description

The area is a former Devonian limestone quarry with a size of 2.86 hectares, as well as grassland and forest on the outskirts of Heggen. The quarry in the southern area of ​​the NSG has mainly exposed rock walls up to 20 m high to the east. The rock walls are partially overgrown with trees such as birch, willow, ash and ferns. At the upper edge of the quarry, a wide border of birch and willow trees separates the break from the surrounding area. On the quarry floor there are boulder fields in the western part of the quarry floor. At the southern edge of the quarry floor there are younger canyon forest areas on the rock rubble there. In the middle of the quarry floor there is a limestone grassland . Numerous very rare plant species occur on this limestone grassland or its initial stages. The eastern floor of the quarry was afforested with alien gray alders , under which mostly nettles grow. To the north of the quarry there is a rock area of ​​0.65 hectares in size with several steeply sloping rocks exposed to the east. The rocks are overgrown with ferns, types of crevice vegetation and pioneer trees. To the north of the rock there is a species-rich limestone grassland. In addition to the typical types of limestone grasslands, there are also species such as heather and three types of gorse in the numerous doline-like depressions and knolls. The English gorse has its southeastern limit of distribution here. The devil's bite as a variable moisture indicator also occurs in this area. In the NSG there is lime grass lawns divided into two areas, 2.35 hectares of limestone grass lawns of the gentian-schiller grass lawn type . To the west of the limestone grassland, on an eastern slope, there is wasteland, 1.05 hectares in size, which was previously grazed with sheep. To the north of the poor grassland there is a small former quarry with a rock face up to 8 m high with pioneer trees. After this break, a small ravine forest with linden and hornbeam follows on a rocky ridge. Numerous orchid and swallowweed plants grow in the gorge forest . The canyon and hillside rubble forests in the area are together 1 hectare in size.

The Roman snail has so far been identified as the only rare animal species .

Planned expansion areas

In the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , two expansion areas are proposed for the Elberskamp NSG in the biotope register. This concerns the extension area at the NSG Elberskamp (BK-4813-303) with a size of 0.17 ha east of the existing NSG and the field trees and semi-dry grassland west of the NSG-Elberskamp (BK-4813-209) with a size of 5.5 ha west of the NSG. Both areas are legally protected biotopes according to § 62 of the Landscape Law of North Rhine-Westphalia because of the lean grassland and the lean lime lawn .

Climbing area Unterer Elberskamp

At the NSG Auf dem Hahne , which is only approx. 100 m northeast of the NSG Elberskamp, ​​the Unterer Elberskamp climbing area is located in the former quarry there. The rock faces of the former quarry are used as the Unterer Elberskamp climbing area. The NSG Auf dem Hahne begins after the climbing rock area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Blach: Land of a Thousand Mountains. Sauerland climbing guide. Geoquest, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038258-1 . Chapter Unterer Elberskamp 28–47.