Schnaakenmoor nature reserve

Schnaakenmoor nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
The Schnaakenmoor at the end of May 2014
location	Hamburg , Germany
surface	101.1 ha
WDPA ID	82537
Geographical location	53 ° 36 '  N , 9 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '3 "  N , 9 ° 45' 38"  E
Setup date	1979/2006
administration	BSU

The Schnaakenmoor in summer 2007

The Schnaakenmoor nature reserve is located in the Klövensteen forest district on the western edge of Hamburg in the Rissen district . The nature reserve also includes areas of the Groten Moors, the Spitzerdorfer Moorflagen and the area between Klövensteenweg, Babenwischenweg and Feldweg 83 (with the exception of the playground at its western end). It is one of the most important local recreation and riding areas in Hamburg. The Schnaakenmoor was created around 10,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age from alluvial sand from the Elbe glacial valley , which rose to form large, sickle-shaped dunes from Elmshorn to Wittenbergen , which were part of a 100-kilometer-long dune belt from Geesthacht to beyond Glückstadt . The sickle shape held back water inland. Later, peat mosses formed on the moist soil and formed the foundation for today's moor with a one meter thick layer of peat .

First placed under protection on April 3, 1979, the area was expanded by ordinance of October 31, 2006. The purpose of protection according to § 2, (1) of this regulation is

"The characteristic complex of construction and transition bogs , inland dunes , heaths , dry grasslands , wetlands , inland waterways, marsh and swamp forests as well as the surrounding site-specific deciduous forests as a living place for housed there rare and endangered plant and animal species such as cotton grass , sphagnum mosses , sundews , white beak-sedge , rosemary , crowberry and cross-leaved heath and common snipe , viper , crested newt , moor frog , natterjack toad , bog Hawker and marsh grasshopper to maintain and develop to increase particularly open moors, heaths and dry grassland and indemnify inland dunes. "

With the expansion in 2006, the area of ​​the nature reserve was enlarged to around 100 hectares.

For rewetting, some main drainage ditches were closed at the edge of the moor in order to stabilize the water level required for the formation of the moor; In addition, the tree population was thinned out on the areas that had fallen dry. Both measures are prerequisites for the formation of the moor vegetation. On the heather development areas, the secondary forest was also thinned out, which had impaired the heather-typical plant community through shading.

The FFH area of the same name with the WDPA ID 555518130 forms a large part of the protected area area .

In 1984, 33 species of bees were identified, with the sand bee species Andrena angustior and the two narrow bee species Lasioglossum rufitarse and Lasioglossum fratellum being the most common.

Web links

Commons : Schnaakenmoor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schnaakenmoor on naturschutzverband-goep.de
• Schnaakenmoor on hamburg.de
• Dates of the Schnaakenmoor
• The nature reserve is expanded by two thirds: 100 hectares of the Schnaakenmoor ( memento from June 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://hamburg.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/hamburg/geschaeftsstelle/naturschutz/nsg_hamburg.pdf
2. ↑ 2324302 Schnaakenmoor, Germany.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
3. ↑ Paul Westrich : Die Wildbienen Deutschlands , 2nd edition, Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2019, p. 17.