Nature reserve Tief Hohl - Kottensiepen (Olsberg)

The nature reserve Tief Hohl - Kottensiepen with a size of 20.6  hectares is located in the Upper Arnsberg Forest north, east and south of Grimlinghausen in the urban area of Olsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis . The area was designated as a nature reserve (NSG) by the Hochsauerlandkreis in 2004 with the Olsberg landscape plan . The municipality of Bestwig borders directly to the south and north-west . In the municipality of Bestwig there is the adjacent nature reserve of the same name, Tief Hohl - Kottensiepen (Bestwig) .

Area description

The NSG is the Kottensiepen and Tief Hohl mit Aue brooks . The meadow is occupied by grassland. Parts of the grassland in the NSG fell fallow. Part of the grassland is wet, wet and lean grassland. Red alder mainly grows along the streams . Rare animal and plant species are found in the NSG.

Protection purpose

The NSG should protect the brooks with floodplains and their species inventory.

As with all nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation pointed out that the area became a nature reserve “because of the rarity, special character and beauty of the area”.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Hochsauerlandkreis

literature

• Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority: Olsberg landscape plan . Meschede 2004, pp. 19-24 and 66-67.

Web links

• Nature reserve "Tief Hohl - Kottensiepen" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '58 "  N , 8 ° 26' 53"  E