Wohldorfer Wald nature reserve

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Wohldorfer Wald nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Typical mixed forest in the area

Typical mixed forest in the area

location Hamburg , Germany
surface 2.78 km²
WDPA ID 82933
Geographical location 53 ° 42 '  N , 10 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '19 "  N , 10 ° 8' 50"  E
Wohldorfer Wald nature reserve (Hamburg)
Wohldorfer Wald nature reserve
Setup date 1980
administration BUE
Valley of the Drosselbek

The Wohldorfer Wald is a forest area in the Hamburg district of Wohldorf-Ohlstedt that has been under nature protection since 1980 . The area is spatially related to the Duvenstedter Brook nature reserve , the Ammersbek valley and the Klein Hansdorfer Brook .

development

The Wohldorfer Wald is the oldest forest district in Hamburg and has been owned by the City of Hamburg since 1437. The forest has always been a popular excursion destination for Hamburg's urban population, there have been walking paths here since 1770, and in the first decades of the 20th century the area was made accessible by a small train that has now been dismantled .

A total of 364 hectares are part of the Wohldorf Forest, of which the central 278 hectares are now a nature reserve and are protected according to the fauna-flora-habitat guidelines and the EU bird protection guidelines . The areas that are not under protection are managed by the Hamburg Forest Administration, the nature reserve is jointly looked after by the Nature Conservation Office, Forestry Office and the German Forest Protection Association.

geology

The heights of the Wohldorfer Forest are a clearly recognizable terminal moraine of the Vistula glaciation and part of a terminal moraine that extends from Tangstedt to Großhansdorf . This terminal moraine is a retreat stage, about 5 km behind the maximum extent of the ice. Many types of terrain in its vicinity point to the formation of melting dead ice .

Today the landscape is still hilly, richly indented and determined by rivers and bodies of water, which means that there is a multitude of different habitats.

Flora

The area has various forest forms and is the largest contiguous deciduous forest within the Hamburg city limits. Most of it is characterized by beech and beech oak forests , some of which are more than 200 years old. In the southern parts, species-rich mixed oak forests predominate, which also offer herbaceous plants such as woodruff , sanicle and tall cowslip good living conditions.

In hollows and valleys there are swamp forests , in which fen species and reeds can also be found. A typical alluvial forest has emerged along the Ammersbek on the northern edge of the area .

Deadwood deliberately left lying around as well as deadwood islands are part of the protection concept. The north-eastern part is a natural forest zone in which it can be observed how a large, non-cultivated area of ​​forest changes over the long term.

Wildlife

In the beech forests, cave dwellers such as the stock dove , the golden bell , hornets and several bat species find their quarters. The deadwood islands provide the livelihood for more than half of the forest animals. All woodpecker species native to northern Germany (e.g. black , green , spotted , medium and small woodpecker ) are found here.

There are a few woodcock in swamp forests . In addition, a large number of typical forest dwellers such as eagle owls , tree falcons , kingfisher , common raven , crested newt and otters can be found in the entire nature reserve .

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance on the Wohldorfer Wald nature reserve of June 25, 2013. Accessed on February 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ List of Hamburg's nature reserves. (PDF file; 90 kB) Accessed June 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ Description of the Mühlenbrooks , part of the Ammersbek lowlands that is managed by NABU , immediately east of the Wohldorfer Wald

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