Nature reserve Schönebecker Schlucht
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Schönebeck Gorge
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 Bridge over the southern of the two streams |
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| location | Essen - Schönebeck , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany |
| surface | 9.28 ha |
| Identifier | E-002 |
| WDPA ID | 165454 |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 28 ' N , 6 ° 56' E |
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| Setup date | 1989 |
| administration | Lower landscape authority of the city of Essen |
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The Schönebeck Gorge is one of three nature reserves in the Schönebeck district of Essen . It is part of a Siepentall landscape , which is also called Schönebecker Switzerland .
description
The protected area includes the wooded Siep valleys of two streams draining from west to east, which flow together in the eastern part of the area. The northern part of the streams is the eponymous Schönebecke. The two valleys are flatter in the upper, western part, in the lower part they form the eponymous gorge with their steep slopes. The area is largely surrounded by residential developments. Further green areas adjoin the western foothills, to the east the valley continues beyond Heißener Straße in the terrace cemetery.
There are some walking paths through the area, but they do not follow the streams, but cross them.
gallery
View into the gorge of the southern stream
The southern of the two streams
Bridge over the northern stream
Glandular balsam and dead wood in the area where the two streams meet
Biotopes and species worthy of protection
In the upper part of the stream valleys dominated by poplars interspersed alder - floodplain . After the northern of the two valleys was cleared, stocks of reeds formed there. On the steep slopes in the lower part of the valleys there are various trees , bracken and blackberry . At the confluence of the streams in the east there is a wet fallow and a willow bush . In parts of the area, neophytes such as glandular balsam and Japanese knotweed have spread.
The entire biotope complex , in particular the “combination of near-natural streams, wetlands and alluvial forest” is considered to be the determining factor . The importance of the protected area for the biotope network of brook valleys in the north of Essen is emphasized.
Protection goals
The protection goal is the "preservation of a stream system with alluvial forest and reed beds in the densely populated area". The immigration and spread of neophytes, the eutrophication found at the edges of the protected area and damage caused by foot traffic are considered to be threats .
Conflicting goals
At first it was natural and necessary to equip Schönebeck, which developed from scattered settlements into a district in the 19th century, with a transport infrastructure. However, from the 1960s onwards, the limits for sensible functional planning threatened to be exceeded. The Schönebeck Gorge was planned as a route for a new federal road B 231. This road planning was abandoned under the impression of increasing environmental awareness in the 1970s.
A chemical company that had been working in the Schönebeck Gorge for decades on the basis of earlier legal bases that could no longer be reconciled with environmental and nature conservation was affected by competing spatial claims. In addition, there were allegations that official requirements were not being complied with: “Toxic waste scandal on Schönebecker Strasse” and “Acid stored outdoors” were the headlines in the press.
Although grievances were repeatedly publicly denounced in the following years, the truth only penetrated the public step by step. More than a decade later, the city's cause was undisputedly known. However, since he had no money to pay for the rehabilitation of the polluted soil in the gorge, the rehabilitation was carried out at the expense of the taxpayer.
More than 30 years passed from the exposure of the environmental scandal to the remediation of contaminated sites and the redevelopment of the property: Seven condominiums and eight terraced houses were built in 2012 on the redeveloped area on Schönebecker Strasse: "A crime story where the chemistry never works," was the public saying.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Official city map of Essen , City of Essen, Office for Geoinformation, Surveying and Cadastre, accessed on April 22, 2017
- ↑ a b Nature reserve "Schönebecker Schlucht" (E-002) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 9, 2017.
- ↑ Wolfgang Sykorra : From the valley basins to the regional green corridor B , in: Essen contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen 128 (2015), p. 264
- ↑ Borbecker Nachrichten / Essen, January 18, 1980
- ^ Neue Ruhr Zeitung from January 19, 1980
- ^ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 5, 1993
- ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 10, 2012
- ^ Andreas Koerner, Klaus Scholz, Wolfgang Sykorra: You were never a stranger. The Essen mining colony Schönebeck and its district, Essen 2009, p. 113ff.
Web links
- Nature reserve "Schönebecker Schlucht" (E-002) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
- World Database on Protected Areas - Nature Reserve Schönebecker Schlucht (English)
