Hilgener Ziegeleiloch nature reserve

Hilgener Ziegeleiloch nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
The Hilgen brick hole
location	Wermelskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	13.09 hectares
Identifier	GL-003
WDPA ID	329433
Geographical location	51 ° 6 '  N , 7 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '0 "  N , 7 ° 9' 42"  E
Setup date	1983
Framework plan	Landscape plan Wermelskirchen
administration	Lower landscape authority Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

The Hilgener Ziegeleiloch nature reserve is located southeast of Hilgen and west of Bechhausen in the town of Wermelskirchen in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district .

description

The nature reserve includes the disused brickworks pit on the southeastern outskirts of Hilgen and the adjacent, partly wooded areas.

Protective purposes

The protection designation was made for the preservation and development of a nationally valuable excavation water with reed beds , sedges , floating leaf and two-tooth communities , surrounded by semi-arid grassland , bushes and pioneer wood stocks as well as for the protection, care and development of the communities of plants and animals bound to this habitat. In detail, the following protective purposes were set:

• Securing the function as a biotope connection area of outstanding importance as a connection area with connecting elements,
• Preservation and development of the landscape in its special character, rarity and outstanding beauty,
• Protection, care and development of the communities of a nationally valuable biotope complex from the excavation waters of a former clay pit with reed beds, sedges, floating leaf and two-tooth communities surrounded by semi-dry lawn, bushes, pioneer wood stocks as well as deciduous forest and a near-natural section of the Hilgener Bachtal, especially as a habitat typical of the area, rare and endangered animal species,
• Preservation and development of habitats, biotopes or communities of certain wild, characteristic and remarkable animal or plant species,
• Preservation and securing of the biotope protected according to this: near-natural standing inland water ,
• Preservation of the former brickworks in superficially lignified claystones as a geoscientific and regional object worthy of protection.

Entrance to the nature reserve

Prohibitions

To achieve and maintain the protective purposes, it is forbidden:

1. To feed game, waterfowl or fish,
2. To practice fishing or angling .

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wermelskirchen landscape plan pp. 45 - 46 Accessed on November 24, 2017