Upper Frommecketal nature reserve
The Upper Frommecketal nature reserve is a 6.62 hectare nature reserve (NSG) in the municipality of Kierspe in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The NSG was designated in 2003 by the district council of the Märkischer Kreis with the landscape plan No. 7 Kierspe .
Area description
The NSG is the valley and source area of the Frommecke brook as well as some adjacent forest and grassland areas . The forest and grassland areas are moist to wet. In the damp to wet forest areas, brook-alder-ash forest, alder-swamp forest and bog birch break forest grow thick. There is a slope moor in the source area . Hainsimsen-beech forest is on the lower slopes.
Protection purpose
The nature reserve was designated for the maintenance and development of a valley and spring area with grassland and forest 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”.
See also
literature
- Märkischer Kreis - Lower Landscape Authority (Ed.): Märkischer Kreis: Landscape Plan No. 5 Kierspe , Lüdenscheid 2003, pp. 57–59.
Web links
- Nature reserve “Upper Frommecketal” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 8 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 39.5 ″ E