Hagen / Königsseite nature reserve

View from the northwest of Niedermarsberg, the nature reserve Hagen / Königsseite and Obermarsberg

View from the nature reserve Auf der Wiemecke

View from Kreisstraße K 5 to the east into the nature reserve Hagen / Königsseite

The nature reserve Hagen / Königsseite with a size of 36.42 hectares lies north and west of Obermarsberg in the urban area of Marsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis . The nature reserve (NSG) was designated as a NSG in 2008 with the Marsberg landscape plan. The NSG largely belongs to the Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Area (FFH) water system Diemel and Hoppecke (Natura 2000-Nr. DE-4617-302) in the European protected area system according to Natura 2000 with a size of 588 ha.

Adjacent areas

The NSG is directly adjacent to the buildings in Obermarsberg. In the north and west it borders on the protected landscape area Schweingründchen / Berghagen / Unter der Königsseite . Sometimes this landscape protection area is only as wide as the embankment of the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway . Only separated by this embankment is the Lower Diemeltal nature reserve in the north . In the south, the NSG is only separated from the Auf der Wiemecke nature reserve by the K 65 .

description

The NSG is located on the north and west slopes of the Eresberg. The mountain is made of limestone and slate . The mountain slope has an average incline of about 45 °. The mountainside is covered with very different types of semi-natural deciduous forests. The deciduous forest consists of woodruff, red beech forests and Schatthang forests. These Schatthang forests are partly planted with sycamore and norway maple, summer linden and sycamore elm. On drier locations on the slope, old field maples dominate the forest in places. The Drakenhöhle lies in a rock face . The Drakenhöhle is also designated as a cultural monument. In the southern area of the Eresberg, clay slate stands in jagged rocks in several places on the middle and lower slope and forms sun-drenched heaps of splintered slate rubble with little vegetation below the rocks, which provide habitat for heat-loving insects and reptiles. In the transition areas to lime-influenced locations, forest rennet oaks - hornbeam forest with service tree appear. This oak-hornbeam forest was previously used as a coppice forest , which is often reflected in the multi-stemmed cane rashes of bizarre growth. In the western area north of the K 5 there are extensively grazed to fallow or afforested grassland parcels. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the NSG is hardly used for forestry purposes.

According to the landscape plan, apart from some red spruce stands , the NSG is only affected by the deposition of garden waste from some of the garden parcels on the edge of the settlement. At the NSG, the plan speaks of outstanding importance for the landscape .

Protection purpose of the nature reserve

The NSG was identified:

To preserve the special character and outstanding beauty of the mountain cone of the Eresberg rising from the Diemel valley;
To protect the near-natural, due to different water supplies with sometimes extremely dry locations, hardwood cover;
To preserve the special ecological locations in the cliff and grassland areas as habitats for endangered species;
To protect the Drakenhöhlen under geographic and geological aspects as well as a Kulmton schist outcrop on the northern edge of the area for geoscientific reasons;
To ensure the coherence and implementation of the European "Natura 2000" system of protected areas.

literature

Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority: Marsberg landscape plan (PDF; 1.4 MB). Meschede 2008, pp. 21-33 + 204-213.

Web links

Commons : Hagen nature reserve / Königsseite - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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