Mastberg and Weißenstein nature reserve

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The Mastberg and Weißenstein nature reserve (2016)
Barmer pond on the Weißenstein

The nature reserve Mastberg and Weißenstein with an area size of 88.13  ha and under the identification HA-002 is located in the area of ​​the independent city of Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The nature reserve (NSG) is located in the Hagen district of Holthausen . The NSG was designated in 1994 with the landscape plan of the city of Hagen by the city council of Hagen. The Temporary Mastberg nature reserve with 18.20 hectares is directly adjacent to the north-west . This area of ​​the Mastberg was only designated temporarily or temporarily because it was planned to have this area of ​​the mountain mined by the Rheinkalk company through the Donnerkuhle quarry adjoining to the west . In the east, the NSG borders directly on the B 7. In the south, the L 693 borders. To the south of the L 693 are the Lange Trees nature reserve and the Hünenpforte nature reserve . The Hünenpforte nature reserve is also located on the Lennesteilhang. A little further south on the Lennesteilhang is the Raffenberg nature reserve . The NSG and the listed nature reserves belong to the FFH area Kalkbuchenwälder near Hohenlimburg (DE 4611-301).

Area description

The NSG includes the wooded limestone peaks of the 70 meter high Weissenstein and the Mastberg as well as extensively managed grassland. It is the largest contiguous deciduous forest complex in the Hagen area with remnants of semi-arid grassland. At the foot of Weissenstein there is predominantly older beech forest with little shrubbery. This beech forest emerged from an overgrown coppice forest . On the steep east and south slopes, rocks emerge openly. Bushy or lightly wooded rock heaps can also be found here. There are also spruce forest parcels scattered around the NSG. The NSG is one of the most diverse and botanical areas in Hagen. There are numerous orchids in the orchid-lime-beech forest. Parts of the NSG are legally protected biotopes according to § 30 BNatSchG .

meaning

The NSG was created because of the special nature and the outstanding beauty of the limestone peaks " Weißenstein " and " Mastberg ", which towers high above the Lenneaue, and for scientific and geological reasons, because of the supraregional geological importance of the karst spring at the foot of the Weißenstein as well as several, small geological z. Some of the interesting caves (e.g. Mastberger Sandloch) are designated as a nature reserve. The protection goal is the preservation and restoration of communities or habitats of certain wild plant and animal species on the Mastberg and on the Weißenstein as well as nationally important biotopes of rare and endangered as well as typical wild plant and animal species.

Prohibitions and requirements in the NSG

Climbing on the rocks and stepping onto the rock heads is prohibited in the NSG. A number of special requirements have been issued for the NSG. The requirements include increasing the age of rotation (age at which trees are felled) of the beech forests to at least 160 years; A network of the forest complexes "Weißenstein" and "Am Tüßfeld" through new planting or addition of hedges; Creation of a near-natural forest edge at "Weißenstein" and "Am Tüßfeld"; Implementation of coppice forest management on suitable areas; Networking of the forest complexes through first afforestation; Combating neophytes ; Near-natural development of forest edges and initiation of succession on an urban fallow land between Mastberg and Weißenstein through permanent cessation of agricultural use for biotope networking.

See also

literature

  • City of Hagen: Landscape plan of the city of Hagen. Hagen 1994

Web links

Commons : Mastberg and Weißenstein nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Schlüpmann: Refractories versus nature - dolomite quarry in Hagen is to be expanded. Nature conservation in NRW 17th year, 1/2006, S: 6-8.
  2. "Mastberg and Weißenstein" nature reserve (HA-002) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on December 17, 2017.
  3. ^ City of Hagen: Landscape plan of the city of Hagen . Hagen 1994, p. 207 ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 26.2 ″  E