Vosloh nature reserve

The Vosloh nature reserve is a 0.4 hectare nature reserve (NSG) west of the Grimminghausen district or Grimminghausen Castle in the town of Plettenberg in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The NSG was designated in 1985 by the district council of the Märkisches Kreis with the landscape plan No. 1 (Plettenberg-Herscheid-Neuenrade) . The name was the Dolinenwald nature reserve "Vosloh" west of the Grimminghausen district, town of Plettenberg . With the 2nd amendment to the landscape plan no. 1 (Plettenberg-Herscheid-Neuenrade), the NSG was designated again in 2012 and renamed the Vosloh nature reserve . About 200 m west of the Vosloh nature reserve is the Lechenstück nature reserve .

Area description

The NSG is a mixed forest of beech and ash on a limestone lens with springs and streams . The area includes parts of the wooded source region of the Hellensiepen . In the area there are small sinkholes, rock ridges and small rocks. The forest has strong to very strong tree wood. The small rocks are mostly less than 1.75 m high, only one reaches a height of 3 m. At the edge, the protected area is affected by near-natural source streams. In the northeast, the source stream disappears within a stream shrinkage. On the wet sites, typical spring vegetation elements of the brook-alder-ash forest and the milkweed community are formed. Despite its modest size, the Vosloh Dolinenwald has a wealth of geomorphological structures. Sinkholes and streams are representative elements of karst landscapes and thus in this part of the Sauerland outside of the mass limestone regions (Hohenlimburg-Letmathe-Iserlohn-Hemer, Attendorn-Finnentrop, Warstein-Brilon) with their several hundred caves (including numerous show caves), karst springs, sinkholes and other karst phenomena less common. Together with the Lechenstück nature reserve to the west, the sinkhole area forms biotope islands with a limestone flora that is rare in nature.

Protection purpose

The nature reserve was designated as a habitat for rare and endangered animals for the preservation and development of a mixed forest of beech and ash trees on a limestone lens with a spring and stream shrinkage. As with other nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation indicated that the area became a nature reserve “because of its scenic beauty and uniqueness”.

Under special prohibitions in the landscape plan was listed "the indigenous forest areas (mixed deciduous forest) for forest use".

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Märkisches Kreis

literature

• Märkischer Kreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Märkischer Kreis: 2nd amendment to landscape plan No. 1 (Plettenberg-Herscheid-Neuenrade) , Lüdenscheid 2012, p. 39.

Web links

• Nature reserve “Vosloh” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Märkischer Kreis: 2nd amendment to the landscape plan No. 1 (Plettenberg-Herscheid-Neuenrade). Articles of Association of December 5, 2012. ( Memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '26 "  N , 7 ° 47' 14.2"  E