Lönnewitzer Heide nature reserve

Lönnewitzer Heide nature reserve in the area of ​​the former location of Alt-Lönnewitz

The Lönnewitz country pool near the old Lönnewitz church ruins in summer

The “Lönnewitzer Heide” nature reserve extends north of Lönnewitz, a part of the Mühlberg district of Koßdorf in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . It is located about 20 kilometers from the cities of Bad Liebenwerda and Torgau on federal highway 183 .

Protection purpose

The 161 hectare nature reserve Lönnewitzer Heide extends north of the village on the former site of the Alt-Lönnewitz airfield . The protection purpose of this nature reserve is specified in the ordinance on the nature reserve "Lönnewitzer Heide" of June 30, 2003 in seven points:

1. "The preservation and development as a habitat of wild plant communities, in particular dry and semi-arid grasslands, silver grass fields, dwarf shrub heaths, dry pine forests and mixed deciduous forest communities of differently nutrient-supplied, dry and warm locations";
2. "The conservation and development of habitats of rare and endangered wild plant species, including pursuant to § 10 para. 2 No. 10 of the. Federal Nature Conservation Act protected species, such as sand straw flower (Helichrysum arenarium), Maiden Pink (Dianthus deltoides) and Genuine centaury ( Centaurium erythraea) ”;
3. "The preservation and development of the area as a habitat or retreat and a potential center for re-expansion of wild animal species, in particular bats , birds, amphibians, reptiles , stinging voices and locusts, including according to Section 10 (2) No. 10 and 11 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act, particularly and strictly Protected species, for example kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), barn owl (Tyto alba), whinchat (Saxicola rubetra), common pipit (Anthus campestris), woodlark (Lullula arborea), gray bunting ( Miliaria calandra), wryneck (Jynx torquila), red-bellied toad (Bombina bombina ), Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), green toad (Bufo viridis), blue-winged wasteland insect (Oedipoda caerulescana); "
4. "The preservation of the area for scientific reasons, in particular to research succession on dry and warm locations";
5. "The preservation of the area because of its special character as a former military property with mosaic-like interlocking, nutrient-poor open land areas and woody or forest structures and raised locations with sun-exposed and shady areas such as shelter hills and protective walls from nutrient-poor topsoils";
6. "The maintenance and development of suitable existing bunkers and over-grounded shelters as bat roosts as well as existing shelters as nesting and breeding grounds for animal species such as house martin (Delichon urbica), barn swallow (Hirundo rustica), kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and barn owl (Tyto alba)";
7. "The preservation and development of the area as part of the biotope network in the Elbe-Elster-Land."

Alt-Lönnewitz

Entrance portal of the Alt-Lönnewitz church ruins on the south side

In the southeast of the nature reserve, the former location of Alt-Lönnewitz, which has now almost disappeared, extends north of the main road. In a wooded area near the Lönnewitzer Landlache is the ruin of the village's former village church , which is now a listed building . This was once a branch church of Schmerkendorf . In the area that was declared a restricted military area for many years after the Second World War , the church with the adjoining cemetery was originally to be found south of the property, which is no longer in existence, in a park between trees. The sparse remains of the church are almost the last structural traces of this village, first mentioned in 1251. The heavily damaged and dilapidated structure was later abandoned after the restricted area was lifted.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Ordinance on the "Lönnewitzer Heide" nature reserve of June 30, 2003 (online version)
2. ↑ Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 8, 2016. 
3. ^ M. Karl Fitzkow : The little church in Lönnewitz . In: The Black Magpie . No. 473 , 1934 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
4. ^ Friedrich Stoy : Lönnewitz . In: The Black Magpie . No. 295/296 , 1925 (free local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
5. ↑ Günther Bogus: "Altlönnewitz - a disappeared village" in "Local calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda , the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg" . Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde eV Bad Liebenwerda. No. 57 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, ISBN 3-932913-00-0 , p. 140-144 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '35 "  N , 13 ° 13' 50.1"  E