Temporary Mastberg nature reserve

Above the Donnerkuhle quarry on the left is the Temporary Mastberg nature reserve

The Temporary Mastberg nature reserve with an area of 18.20 ha and under the identification HA-023 is located in the area of the independent city of Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The nature reserve (NSG) is located in the Hagen district of Holthausen . The NSG was designated in 1994 with the landscape plan of the city of Hagen by the city council of Hagen. This area of the Mastberg was only designated temporarily or temporarily because it was planned to have this area of the mountain mined by the Rheinkalk company through the Donnerkuhle quarry adjoining to the west . The NSG determination ceases to apply when a rock mining permit becomes legally binding under the Federal Immission Control Act.

In the north, the NSG borders directly on the B 7. In the west is the Hassley nature reserve . The nature reserve Mastberg and Weißenstein with 88.13 hectares is directly adjacent to the south and east . Further south is the Lange Trees nature reserve and the Hünenpforte nature reserve to the south-east . Even further to the south-east is the Raffenberg nature reserve . The NSG and the listed nature reserves belong to the FFH area Kalkbuchenwälder near Hohenlimburg (DE 4611-301).

Area description

The NSG covers the north-western part of the wooded limestone dome of the Mastberg. The NSG is one of the most diverse and botanical areas in Hagen. There are numerous orchids in the orchid-lime-beech forest.

Plants such as the white forest bird , the sword-leaved forest bird , the greenish cuckoo flower , the fly flower , the single-flowered pearly grass , the woodruff , the forest ringelkraut , the lily of the valley , the forest sanicle , the finger sedge , the nodding pearly grass grow in the light 150 year old beech forest , the upright bristle , the orchid , the deadly nightshade , the real cowslip and the daphne . There are birds such as tawny owl , buzzard , spotted woodpecker , green woodpecker , black woodpecker , wood warbler , cuckoo , tree pipit , Whitethroat and the grasshopper warbler ago.

Protection purpose

The NSG was designated as a nature reserve to preserve and promote a structurally and age-heterogeneous deciduous forest including the well-structured forest edges with its characteristic plant and animal species and to maintain communities or habitats of certain wild plant and animal species on the Mastberg .