Kleine Dingdener Heide nature reserve

NSG Kleine Dingdener Heide IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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location	Hamminkeln , Wesel District , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	50 ha
Identifier	WES-069
WDPA ID	329489
Geographical location	51 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '6 "  N , 6 ° 38' 35"  E
Sea level	from 46 m to 49 m above sea level
Setup date	2002
Framework plan	Landscape plan Hamminkeln area
administration	Lower landscape authority of Wesel district

The nature reserve Kleine Dingdener Heide (NSG identification WES-069) is around 50 hectares in size and is located in the district of Dingden in the area of ​​the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Hamminkeln . It extends mainly over forest and grassland areas , including an ecologically particularly valuable wetland area and smaller dry heather deposits. It is in the area of ​​the Konstantin (s) forest, a private forest area named after Prince Konstantin zu Salm-Salm .

The nature reserve comprises a sub-area of ​​the larger cultural landscape of Dingdener Heide in the transition area between Münsterland and Lower Rhine , which also includes other surrounding areas. A short distance to the east there are the nature reserves Dingdener Heide (with the Great Dingdener Heide ) and Büngernsche and Dingdener Heide . Other areas of the Dingdener Heide lie v. a. in protected landscape areas . In the southeast, the NSG borders Mumbecker Bach , in the west the camping site of the Dingdener Heide recreation area .

Flora and fauna

In the southern NSG section, in the Beltung area of the Konstantinforst, lies the wet heather area dominated by whistle grass . In particular there are rare and endangered plant species, u. a. Saving engined rush , Juncus Subnodulosus , Vielstängelige bulrush , Brown beak-sedge , marsh gentian and sundew . At drier places similar to dwarf shrub heather a. Common heather , blueberry and lingonberry . The area in the biotope network is also important as a habitat for several rare and endangered animal species . B. the open land areas for the curlew and for reptiles ( sand lizard , smooth snake , also adder ); the existing ditches and small-scale still waters are particularly relevant for amphibians (including common frogs and pond newts ).

tourism

The nature reserve is largely limited by roads and paths, from which marginal views of the area are possible. The Finkenberg road partially runs in the area, as does a section of a scenic circular hiking trail that is advertised as "Dingdener Heide - history of a cultural landscape". It leads through several neighboring protected areas and goes back to a funding project of the NRW Foundation and the NABU , in the context of which various historical forms of the rural cultural landscape are reconstructed, maintained and brought to life. This hiking trail opens up the southern area of ​​the NSG Kleine Dingdener Heide and leads through the forest along the wet heath area. The cabaret artist Wendelin Haverkamp has been campaigning for the NRW Foundation since 1994 as a project sponsor for Dingdener Heide. The supervisor of the cultural landscape project is the biological station in the Wesel district, which also looks after the Kleine Dingdener Heide NSG.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Wesel district

Web links

• Nature reserve "WES-069 Kleine Dingdener Heide" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
2. ↑ ^{a b} nature reserve "WES-069 Kleine Dingdener Heide" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
3. ↑ ^{a b} circular route. In: www.dingdener-heide.com. Büngernsche / Dingdener Heide Foundation, accessed on October 10, 2016 (there also flyer with circular route map ). 
4. ↑ Dingdener Heide - time travel into the history of an old cultural landscape. (PDF) In: www.nrw-stiftung.de. NRW Foundation , May 2003, accessed on October 10, 2016 (brochure). 
5. ↑ "The Idea" Project description: Dingdener Heide - history of a cultural landscape. (PDF) In: www.dingdener-heide.com. NABU NRW / NRW-Stiftung , March 2001, accessed on October 9, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Wendelin Haverkamp, ​​godfather for the Dingdener Heide. In: www.nrw-stiftung.de. Retrieved October 10, 2016 .