Lesmicker-Siepen nature reserve

The Lesmicker-Siepen nature reserve is a 6.36 hectare nature reserve (NSG) south-east of Meinerzhagen in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The NSG was designated in 2001 by the district council of the Märkischer Kreis with the landscape plan No. 6 Meinerzhagen .

Area description

The NSG is the meadow valley of the meandering Lesmicke with its floodplain . In the floodplain there is mostly forest and some grassland . Partly there is wet and damp grassland in the NSG. Some of the grassland has fallen fallow . There are also sources in the NSG.

Protection purpose

The nature reserve was designated for the conservation and development of the meadow valley and as a habitat for endangered animal and plant species. As with other nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation indicated that the area became a nature reserve “because of its scenic beauty and uniqueness”.

For the NSG there is a special prohibition "to use the indigenous wet forest areas (alder swamp forest, brook-alder-ash forest, source area in beech forest) purely for forestry purposes".

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Märkisches Kreis

literature

• Märkischer Kreis - Lower Landscape Authority (Ed.): Märkischer Kreis: Landscape Plan No. 6 Meinerzhagen , Lüdenscheid 2001, pp. 103-104.

Web links

• "Lesmicker-Siepen" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 28 ″  E