Schüren quarry nature reserve (Dortmund)

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NSG quarry Schüren

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

View from Kaiserberg on Lake Phoenix to the Schüren quarry (behind the railway line in the upper half of the picture)

View from Kaiserberg on Lake Phoenix to the Schüren quarry (behind the railway line in the upper half of the picture)

location Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface 8.6 ha
Identifier DO-017
WDPA ID 319149
Geographical location 51 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '8 "  N , 7 ° 32' 25"  E
Schüren quarry nature reserve (Dortmund) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Schüren quarry nature reserve (Dortmund)
Setup date 1990

The Schüren quarry is a nature reserve in the Schüren district of Dortmund . The nature reserve was placed under protection for the first time in 1990 and has the NSG identification DO-017. With a size of 8.6 hectares, it is the second smallest nature reserve in Dortmund.

The quarry is also listed as a ground monument with the list number B 0013 in the monuments list of the city of Dortmund .

history

The reduction in the quarry Stoke began in the Middle Ages . Stones from this quarry can be found or were found in numerous Dortmund churches and houses such as Reinoldikirche , Georgskirche , Hörder Burg , Haus Heithoff or Haus Berghofen . Also in recent times has been dismantled here, for example. B. for the construction of the Great Church of Aplerbeck . The stones were formed around 315 million years ago at the time of the Upper Carboniferous . The quarry consists of two partial quarries, the large western "Lower Break" and the eastern "Upper Break". Several coal seams from the small mines “Gustav” and “Gute Hoffnung”, which were still mining coal here until 1957 , can also be found in the quarry.

After it was closed, the quarry was misused as a landfill for decades. This garbage layer is the subsoil of the site today. Today, a grassland community consisting of sweet clover and adder's head grows on this shallow ground . Other areas are bushed. A forest of willows , locust trees and birches has formed next to meadows and tall perennials as well as a small pond at the deepest point of the site. This pond is spawning ground for mining and newts , common frogs and earth and toads . Slow worms live in the rocks.

Protection goals

The undisturbed development of nature in an urban area is decisive for this nature reserve. For this reason, the quarry should not be entered.

literature

  • Hans Georg Kirchhoff and Siegfried Liesenberg (eds.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck: Festschrift on behalf of the Association for Home Care. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-735-5 .

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