Wilhelmshöhe nature reserve

The Wilhelmshöhe nature reserve is a 9 hectare nature reserve north of Grevenbrück and west of Trockenbrück in the municipality of Lennestadt . The area was designated as a NSG in 1981, 1985 and 2003 by the Arnsberg district government . In 2006 it became the Elsper Senke - Lennebergland landscape plan . No. 2 by the district of Olpe again designated as NSG. The NSG is one of ten sub-areas of the fauna-flora-habitat area, beech forests, limestone semi -dry grasslands and rocks south of Finnentrop (DE-4813-301).

In the east, the NSG borders directly on the Trockenbrück development. The B 55 is directly adjacent to the south. A quarry of the Grevenbrücker Kalkwerke is directly adjacent to the west .

description

The NSG is steep, south-facing slope areas with which the Sporker plateau drops into the Lennetal . On the slope of the NSG there are small former quarries. In the NSG there is a mosaic of warmth-loving forest and shrubbery societies with embedded, bushy limestone grasslands , poor meadows and pastures and natural limestone rocks. The forest is a bedstraw-oak-hornbeam forest.

According to the landscape plan, the bush-covered limestone grasslands should be freed of woody growth. The limestone grasslands should be grazed regularly by a flock of sheep. There should be no paddock and no night pen in the NSG. In hardwood stands over 120 years old, up to ten strong old trees per hectare, especially eyrie and cave trees, are to be determined and left as old or dead wood in the stands for the decay phase.

fauna

In the NSG comes dormouse ago.

Protection purpose

The NSG is intended to protect nationally significant habitats and habitats of rare and endangered animals and plants typical of the landscape. As with all nature reserves in Germany, the protection designation indicated that the area was declared a nature reserve “because of the rarity, special character and beauty of the area”.