Tongrube Oberauel nature reserve

Tongrube Oberauel nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Oberauel nature reserve
location	Bergisch Gladbach , Overath - Untereschbach , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , NRW , Germany
surface	23.66 ha
Identifier	GL-048
WDPA ID	344794
FFH area	9.01 hectares
Geographical location	50 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '12 "  N , 7 ° 12' 55"  E
Sea level	from 95 m to 205 m
Setup date	2005
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district

Yellow-bellied toad lying on its back

The nature reserve Tongrube Oberauel is a former clay pit with an area of ​​23.66 hectares. The nature reserve with the key number GL-048 is located in the Untereschbach district of Overath with the transition to the Moitzfeld district of Bergisch Gladbach .

Until the early 1960s , clay and greywacke were mined on the south side of the Aueler Berg, which rises 199 m above the Sülztal . The brick factory located in the Sülztal had its own siding to the Sülztalbahn .

FFH area

An approx. 9 hectare area of ​​the NSG forms the FFH area according to the FFH directive under the name Tongrube / Steinbruch Oberauel and the number DE-5009-302 . Target species in the FFH area are the yellow-bellied toad and the midwife toad . Together with the Grube Weiß nature reserve , it forms an important refuge for amphibians . The only known occurrence of the yellow-bellied toad in the Bergisches Land is currently in the two former pits .

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis
• List of FFH areas in North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Tongrube Oberauel" nature reserve (GL-048) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 7, 2017.
2. ↑ 5009-302 clay pit / quarry Oberauel.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 17, 2017.
3. ↑ Natura2000 - Tongrube / Steinbruch Oberauel on naturschutzinformationen-nrw.de, accessed on August 25, 2013.
4. ↑ Yellow-bellied toad - Bergisches Land project region. Retrieved on July 17, 2016 (description of the FFH areas at the supervising Rhein-Berg biostation ). 

Web links

• Wetlands near Oberauel - prophecies of doom from the clay pit. at nrw-stiftung.de
• Landscape plan "Südkreis" - Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Rösrath - Oberauel pit . The District Administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis (PDF; 2.7 MB).