Spreiberg nature reserve

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NSG sign with information sign Protect nature! Please do not leave the paths and leash the dogs.
South-western part of the nature reserve (northeast of Müschede)
North area
Facing south
Northern part of NSG
Employees of the biological station clears fallen fruit trees from the previously cleared orchard
Flock of sheep in the NSG Spreiberg
Pond in the reserve

The Spreiberg nature reserve is located on the eastern edge of the village of Arnsberg - Müschede or south of the outskirts of Hüsten in the Hochsauerland district . It is the former training area Spreiberg. It was stipulated in 1998 with the Arnsberg landscape plan by the district council of the Hochsauerlandkreis that when the on-site troop training area Spreiberg is abandoned, 88  hectares will automatically become a nature reserve . After the Spreiberg military training area ceased to be used, the area became the Spreiberg nature reserve in 2006. In the current revision of the landscape plan, an application has been made to rename the nature reserve to the Wicheler Heide nature reserve , as this area is popularly known by this name. Parts of the forest areas belong to the Obereimer FFH area . Part of the forest in the FFH area is designated as a wilderness area, Obereimer Forest Reserve, Obereimer Forest District 1 Wicheler Holz (number: WG-HSK-0004-01). No forest use is made in the wilderness area. The nature reserve Waldreservat Obereimer borders directly on the NSG Spreiberg in the southeast. The protected landscape area Hüsten Ost borders in the east . In the north-west, south-west and south lies the Arnsberg nature reserve .

description

The altitude of the NSG goes up to 270 m. The main part of the NSG is taken up by grassland. There is a poor pasture on the gently sloping south-east to west slope of the Spreiberg. The lean pasture is partly a herb and species-rich ostrich-red fescue pasture. There are woods and hedges in the grassland. Two old English oaks with a trunk diameter of 90 to 100 cm and two fruit tree areas also structure the grassland. In the peripheral areas, especially in the southeast of the NSG, there are forest areas. There are also several ponds of different sizes in the protected area.

The grassland areas are grazed by a shepherd with his flock of sheep. In the future, sheep will only graze on the edge of the area. The areas in the center of the NSG are to be grazed extensively with cattle and horses in the future.

NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage

At the beginning of October 2016, the NSG together with the former military training areas Büchelberg and Osterode was transferred by the Federal Republic of Germany to the NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage . The area transferred to NABU, at 111  ha , is 23 ha larger than the designated NSG. On November 4, 2016, employees of the NABU Foundation National Natural Heritage , including the foundation chairman Christian Unselt, and employees of KPMG Germany , with which NABU has a cooperation, planted 250 young beeches in the NSG to increase the hardwood stock in the NSG.

Modell-Segelflugsport Spreiberg eV, which had previously used the Spreiberg for 37 years for model gliding, was terminated in August 2018 by the NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage.

From spring 2021, large parts of the NSG are to be used for year-round grazing with Red Höhenvieh , an old breed of cattle that used to be common in the Sauerland. For this purpose, fences are to be built from autumn 2020. The hiking trails should remain open.

Conservation measures

The Association for Nature and Bird Protection in the Hochsauerlandkreis (VNV) looked after 20 old fruit trees in two areas in the NSG in 2007. The fruit trees stood at two farms, which were demolished in 1954 to make room for use as a military training area. Since 2018, work by the VNV and the landscape maintenance team of the Biological Station Hochsauerlandkreis in the NSG has been taking place again and again.

fauna

Amphibians and reptiles

Evidence of the natterjack toad is most recently available from 1981 and 1982. At that time, armored vehicles of the Belgian troops from Arnsberg still provided large open areas with no vegetation and small pools.

The grass snake is currently still found in the NSG, whereby there is a direct connection with the population in the Ruhr Valley .

Gallery of amphibians and reptiles photographed in the Spreiberg nature reserve:

insects

The yellow meadow ant ( Lasius flavus ), which builds nest mounds, occurs on the pastures . These nest mounds give parts of the grassland the appearance of a humpback willow. In the eastern part of the area, where a valley depression opens up to the Ruhr valley, there is a 250 m by 80 m large area on which the nest mounds pile up. In the rest of the area, nest mounds are only found sporadically.

Gallery of insects photographed in the Spreiberg nature reserve:

Birds and mammals

Gallery of birds and mammals photographed in the Spreiberg nature reserve:

Flora and mushrooms

flora

The specialized information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia ( LANUV ) the plant species perennial ryegrass , St. John's Wort , Luzula campestris , daisies , Catsear , Common chickweed , trefoil , ordinary sweet vernal grass , grass chickweed , Small burnet , Small sorrel , creeping buttercup , red ostrich grass , red fescue , round-leaved bellflower , norway plantain , soft honeydew grass , meadow crested grass and white clover are listed for the NSG.

Mushrooms

In 2017, the first detection of the squid mushroom ( Clathrus archeri ) for the Hochsauerlandkreis took place in the NSG . The species originates from Australia and did not come to Germany until 1934.

  • Squid mushroom

See also

literature

  • Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority: Arnsberg landscape plan. Meschede 1998, pp. 55-56.

Web links

Commons : Spreiberg nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working group for village development and home care, Müschede: Application or discussion with the Lower Landscape Authority of the Hochsauerlandkreis
  2. ↑ Cattle and horses should graze on Spreiberg In: WP from September 1, 2018
  3. ↑ First, second, last ... - NABU Foundation takes over three former military areas from the federal government
  4. ↑ 250 young beeches planted In: der westen.de from November 5, 2016, accessed on November 6, 2016
  5. ↑ "Refusal" annoys Modellflieger WP of October 6, 2018
  6. ^ Spreiberg Müschede: year-round grazing from spring 2021 WR from May 26, 2020
  7. ↑ Harald Legge: Preserving the diversity of the landscape - The VNV maintains eastern meadows and polluted willows. Irrgeister 20007/24. 20-22.
  8. ↑ Martin Lindner: The natterjack toad (Bufo Calamita) in the Sauerland . Irrgeister 2007/24, pp. 29-38.
  9. ↑ Birgit Blosat, Hans Peter Eckstein, Monika Hachtel: grass snake - Natrix natrix . In: Working Group Amphibians and Reptiles in North Rhine-Westphalia: Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles North Rhine-Westphalia Volume 2. Bielefeld 2011: 1035-1080.
  10. ↑ Reiner Feldmann: A humpback pasture on the Spreiberg near Arnsberg-Neheim - On the genesis and structure of a large colony of the yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus. Nature and Home 72/2012. P. 8.
  11. ^ NSG in the specialist information system of the LANUV
  12. ^ Gerhard Wölfel: Squid mushrooms - first discovered in the HSK. False spirits 24:45.

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 40.7 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 27.3"  E