Wästertal nature reserve
The Wästertal nature reserve is a 40.5 hectare nature reserve south of Belecke in the urban area of Warstein in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1997 the district government of Arnsberg designated the area as an NSG by ordinance. The federal road 55 and a railway line run on the west side of the NSG or an industrial area is directly adjacent. Grassland borders in the north and a sports field in the south. In the east is the Belecker Stadtwald with predominantly spruce forest.
Area description
The NSG is the near-natural low mountain range of the desert with grassland. In the NSG there is also wet and lean grassland. Some hedge structures are in the reserve. The desert runs on the west side of the valley and is accompanied by young alluvial forest. In the northern part of the NSG, a mill ditch branches off, which flows back into the wastes shortly before it flows into the Möhne. A bridge crosses the NSG in the north. The value of the open brook valley with its adjacent grassland and the alluvial forest areas within a densely populated valley is decisive.
In the NSG rare and partly endangered fauna occur.
Reason for expulsion
According to the NSG ordinance, the NSG was specifically designed "to preserve communities or habitats of certain wild animal and plant species, in particular to preserve rare, sometimes endangered plant communities in wet and poor grassland, and to preserve a near-natural small mountain river with rare and sometimes endangered ones Fauna ".
See also
Web links
- "Wästertal" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 20 ′ 26 ″ E