Schatthangwald Rohr nature reserve

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The nature reserve Schatthangwald Röhre with a size of 5.6  hectares is located west of Sundern-Röhre in the urban area of Sundern (Sauerland) . The area was designated as a nature reserve (NSG) with an area of ​​3.3 hectares for the first time in 1993 with the Sundern landscape plan by the district council of the Hochsauerlandkreis . When the Sundern landscape plan was reorganized, the NSG was again identified and enlarged. The NSG area has been part of the fauna-flora-habitat area Große Sunderner Höhle with the number DE-4614-306 since 2005 . To the east of the NSG is a hall and the administration building of Stadtwerke Sundern. The company's headquarters Severin electrical appliances located 100 m north of the NSG. The NSG otherwise borders the Sundern nature reserve .

Area description

In the eastern part of the NSG lies the bottom of an abandoned limestone quarry. It is a two-bottom quarry in the Hellefeld Kalk with slightly sloping and poorly structured rock faces. In the upper third of the quarry wall is the locked entrance to the Great Sundern Cave. Another small cave entrance is in the steep eastern slope of the Röhr, planted with hornbeam coppice. The Great Sunderner Cave has a branched, partially water-bearing tube system with a passage length of 250 m. In the western cave area is the so-called owl hall.

On the quarry floor in the NSG, a small area of ​​lean grassland-like vegetation grows with some limestone pointers such as blue-green sedge . The edge areas of the base to the rock faces adjoining on three sides or steep slopes rich in rubble have developed into species-rich pre-forest stadiums. The mountain ridge, the south and east slopes of the ridge belong to the NSG. The ridge drops steeply to the Röhrtal in the east. The ridge gradually tapers off to the west. The western part of the ridge is characterized by mostly bush-covered or forested with black cherries. In the eastern part of the NSG a continuous hornbeam coppice dominates with admixture of other tree species and a typical lime beech forest herb layer. An old beech forest can be found on a smaller scale. On the lower slope there is a thinned ash stand with canyon forest tendencies. The east to northeast exposed, steep slope to the Röhrtal is often shallow and interspersed with individual rocks and rock steps.

The Great Sunderner Cave is one of the few caves in the Lower Carboniferous and a habitat for specialized cave-dwelling invertebrates. The cave shrimp Niphargus fontanus was found in the Great Sundern Cave . In earlier times the cave was known as bat winter quarters. Data on the current range of bat species are not available.

Protection purpose

The NSG is supposed to protect the area with the species there. As with all nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation pointed out that the area became a nature reserve “because of the rarity, special character and beauty of the area”.

See also

literature

  • Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Landscape plan Sundern , Meschede 1993.
  • Hochsauerlandkreis: Landscape plan Sundern - reorganization . Meschede 2019.
  • Pielsticker, KH (1998): The Great Sunderner Cave (Sundern, Hochsauerlandkreis, FRG): Sinter fractures and rearrangements - ice pressure or earthquakes ?. Mitt. Verb. Dt. Höhlen- u. Karstforsch., 44 (1): 4-11.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Landscape plan Sundern , Meschede 1993, p. 22 ff.
  2. ↑ Landscape plan Sundern - reorganization, p. 42 ff. (PDF) Retrieved on May 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 43.6 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 46.6"  E