Süggel nature reserve
NSG Süggel
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Path through the Süggel nature reserve |
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location | Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
surface | 69.6 ha | |
Identifier | DO-024 | |
WDPA ID | 378293 | |
Geographical location | 51 ° 34 ' N , 7 ° 28' E | |
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Setup date | 1990 | |
Framework plan | Landscape plan Dortmund-North |
The Süggel nature reserve is an extensive forest area in the north of Dortmund . It is located on Dortmund area north of the districts of Eving and Kemminghausen and borders on Brechte in the north . It covers 69.6 hectares. The nature reserve "Süggel" was established on November 30, 1990 in the Dortmund-North landscape plan and also in the first amendment to the Dortmund-North landscape plan on September 2, 2005. The nature reserve extends east of federal highway 54 . The Grävingholz nature reserve is to the west of the main road .
description
Historically, the forest area formed immediately after the last ice age and has been preserved as a contiguous forest area ever since. In the Middle Ages, the forest served the lords of the county of Dortmund as a hunting ground. Today an old tree population dominates the nature reserve Süggel, the dominant tree is the beech , but also hornbeam , sycamore maple , oak and ash grow sporadically in this forest. In places the forest is undergrown with holly . The old trees in particular offer nesting and breeding sites for the great spotted woodpecker and green woodpecker , but also hawk and stock dove find a habitat here. Around a dozen adult animals and a number of young animals can move around in a fallow deer enclosure, almost as if in the wild.
As a source area, the nature reserve is crossed by small source streams. These form boggy wetlands . Angled sedge , lady's fern and turf grove grow here . These wetlands provide mountain and great crested newt , common toad and grass and pond frog habitat.
One of the source brooks is the Süggelbach, which takes up further rivulets along its 7.9 km long course in a northerly direction and flows into the Seseke in Lünen , a few meters before reaching the Lippe .
An existing network of trails is ideal for hiking and cycling. Problems here, however, are the intense rush of visitors and the dogs that often run free.
Protection goals
The most important protection goal is the preservation of these large-scale, near-natural beech forests, with the embedded small bodies of water, as part of a biotope network in the north of Dortmund.
See also
Web links
- "Süggel" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
- BUND-Dortmund: Grävingholz and Süggelwald - Where Dortmund's thickest trees grow. (PDF; 65 kB)