Eudenbach glider air reserve nature reserve

NSG glider airfield Eudenbach IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
View of the airfield in the nature reserve
location	Koenigswinter and Bad Honnef , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	47.8 ha
Identifier	SU-085
WDPA ID	329626
Geographical location	50 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '26 "  N , 7 ° 21' 56"  E
Setup date	1999

The Eudenbach gliding area nature reserve has a size of approx.47.8 hectares and comprises hall 6 in the town of Königswinter in the Oberhau district and hall 23 in the town of Bad Honnef in the Aegidienberg district .

The site lies on a ridge of the Niederwesterwälder Hochmulde , sloping slightly to the south , about 300  m above sea level. NHN , and is part of the area called Mußer Heide (also Musser Heide ) for centuries in the area of ​​the municipal or state border around the high point 304  m above sea level. NHN . It is the largest contiguous rough meadow area in the area that is not exposed to intensive agriculture. The sheep graze here in summer and a special fauna and flora has developed here over the decades. The use by glider pilots is between April and October and only in a certain area, so that nature is given sufficient rest time.

The Eudenbach glider airfield was placed under nature protection on April 29, 2004 by the Cologne district government . The protection was placed because of the special importance of the area for the preservation and restoration of lean grassland, in particular of lean and bristle grass lawn , of moist grassland, as well as a large contiguous, predominantly extensively used grassland area.

Immediately to the east, on the Rhineland-Palatinate side, is the Buchholzer Moor nature reserve with Lökestein and Sauerwieser Heide , which was placed under protection in 1982 in an area on the Lökestein of approx. 3.8 hectares and an extension in 2007 with a total of 67 hectares. To the north is the Komper Heide nature reserve .

The following species, some of which are on the red list , can be found on the glider airfield today :

plants

Common Adder's tongue ( Ophioglossum vulgatum ) about 3,000-4,000 pieces, spotted orchid ( Dactylorhiza maculata ) over 1,000 pieces, marsh gentian ( Gentiana pneumonanthe ), English broom ( Genista anglica ), polygala serpyllifolia ( Polygala serpyllifolia ), White butterfly orchid ( Polantanthera bifolia )

Birds

Meadow pipit ( Anthus pratensis ), skylark ( Alauda arvensis ), tree pipit ( Anthus trivialis ), red- backed shrike ( Lanius collurio )

Butterflies

Great ox-eye ( Maniola jurtina ), chessboard ( Melanargia galathea ), green ram ( Adscita statices )

literature

• Bernd and Angela Schumacher: Landscaping accompanying plan for the glider airfield Eudenbach . 1998.
• Wilber Fuhr: The history of the Eudenbach airfield on the Musser Heide . Königswinter 2007, pp. 177-183.

Web links

• Nature reserve "Segelfluggelände Eudenbach" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Geodata portal of the Rhein-Sieg district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regulatory authority ordinance on the nature reserve "Segelfluggelände Eudenbach" of April 29, 2004 (PDF; 494 kB)
2. ^ Ordinance on the nature reserve " Buchholzer Moor with Lökestein and Sauerwieser Heide (PDF; 92 kB)" of February 21, 2007