Neulinger sinkholes

Neulinger sinkholes IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Doline in the nature reserve
location	Baden-Württemberg Enzkreis Newbies
surface	12.16 ha
Identifier	2,055
WDPA ID	82242
FFH area	11.92 ha
Geographical location	48 ° 57 '  N , 8 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '31 "  N , 8 ° 43' 9"  E
Sea level	from 324 to 342  m above sea level NHN
Setup date	July 1, 1981
administration	Karlsruhe Regional Council

Neulinger Dolinen is a nature reserve in the karst area of the Bauschlotter Platte in the south of the Kraichgau . The protected area belongs to the Göbrichen district of the Neulingen community in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

Landscape and geology

The nature reserve is about halfway between Pforzheim and Bauschlott, directly west of federal highway 294 (Pforzheim– Bretten ) and just under two kilometers south-east of Göbrichen.

A meadow landscape in a drainless depression with a sinkhole field is placed under protection . There is a spring in the north-west of the nature reserve ; the rivulet created here seeps into a sinkhole after 500 meters. Geologically, the depression lies in the rocks of the Lower Copper , which are covered with loess clay . The Upper and Middle Muschelkalk are waiting under the Keuper . The five to eight meter deep sinkholes collapsed over the leached gypsum and karstified limestone of the shell limestone.

In the south there is a small wooded ridge, whose 355  m above sea level. NHN highest point, the Neulinger Berg , is located southwest of the nature reserve. In the west and north there are orchards , meadows and fields. In the east, the federal highway 294 runs along an embankment.

The Neulingen desert lies on the western edge of the nature reserve . First mentioned in the first half of the 12th century, the village was abandoned around 1450. In its heyday, Neulingen was one of the larger villages in the region with an estimated 350 inhabitants. The place was between two arms of the spring that lead from the west into the depression. Initially a round , newcomers were expanded to include a street gorge on the northern arm of the spring. The municipality Neulingen, which was formed from three suburbs in the course of the municipal reform, took over the name of the submerged place.

Flora and fauna

The majority of the nature reserve is occupied by oat meadows . In the headwaters in the northwest of the nature reserve there is a wet meadow with marsh marigold and brook avens . The trickle is lined with moisture-loving plant communities with forest ledges and upright hedgehog ears . The sinkholes and the area around the source are covered with groups of trees and bushes, which birds and small mammals appreciate as a place to stay. In the meadows there are some old fruit trees, mostly cherries, but also apples and pears.

Nature reserve

The area was designated as a nature reserve by an ordinance issued by the Karlsruhe Regional Council on July 1, 1981. The protection purpose is the preservation of “the picturesque meadow landscape with numerous sinkholes in a drainless depression.” With regard to the need for protection, reference is made to the geological significance of the sinkholes and the ecological value of the meadows, reeds, bushes and trees of varying degrees of moisture.

The CDDA code for the nature reserve is 82242 and corresponds to the WDPA ID . Of the 12.16 hectare nature reserve, 11.92 hectares or 98 percent are also part of the FFH area Enztal near Mühlacker . The nature reserve is completely from the conservation area south Göbrichen Gengenbachtal and Dolinenlandschaft (no. 2.36.009) surrounded. The sinkhole field is also protected as a geotope .

In 2000, the dumping of brushwood , household waste and building rubble into the sinkholes was named as an impairment of the nature reserve .

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Enzkreis

literature

• Andreas Wolf: Neulinger sinkholes. In: District Office for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Karlsruhe (Ed.): The nature reserves in the administrative district of Karlsruhe . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-5172-7 , pp. 221-222.

Web links

Commons : Neulinger Dolinen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
• Online map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Map of the Neulinger Dolinen nature reserve
  General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heights from the digital terrain model in the LUBW's online map.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile Geotope Neulinger Dolinenfeld, Neulingen-Göbrichen at the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining , as of November 22, 2016 (pdf, 1.3 MB).
3. ^ Regine Einfeld: The Katharinentaler Senke - a walk with insights and views. In: The Enzkreis. ISSN  0935-9125 , 14 (2012) pp. 21-39, here p. 23.
4. ↑ Einfeld, Katharinentaler Senke , pp. 24–26;
   Wolf, Neulinger Dolinen , p. 222.
5. ↑ Ordinance of the Karlsruhe regional council as higher nature conservation authority over the nature reserve “Neulinger Dolinen”, Enzkreis , July 1st, 1981.
6. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
7. ↑ Data evaluation sheet NSG 2.055 - Neulinger Dolinen. at LUBW (pdf, 3.8 KB).
8. ↑ Layer landscape protection area in the LUBW's online map.
9. ↑ Wolf, Neulinger Dolinen , p. 222.