Upper Herrenteich

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Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 53 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 40 ″  E

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The Obere Herrenteich is a nature reserve in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Reinfeld (Holstein) and the municipality of Heidekamp in the Stormarn district .

The approximately 70  hectare nature reserve is registered with the number 182 in the directory of nature reserves of the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas. It was designated in 1999 (date of regulation: November 1, 1999). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Stormarn district.

The nature reserve lies between Reinfeld and Heidekamp. It includes the northern part of the Herrenteich in Reinfeld, the areas surrounding it and the lower area of ​​the Heilsau that adjoins it to the north with the adjacent areas. The settlement areas along the roads, which essentially delimit the nature reserve, as well as an agricultural area on the municipal border with Heidekamp are excluded from the nature reserve. In the south, the Fischhuser Damm hiking trail borders the nature reserve. To the north which borders the conservation area "Wallber and wooded terminal moraine at Heidekamp" in the west and south, the "Reinfeld" conservation area of the nature reserve.

The Herrenteich was created in the 12th century by Cistercian monks of the Reynevelde Monastery by damming the Heilsau and used for fish farming. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the German Federation for Bird Protection and later the Nature Conservation Union Germany campaigned for the preservation of the valuable habitat at the Upper Herrenteich. As early as 1982, the Nature Conservation Union of Germany applied for the Upper Herrenteich to be designated as a nature reserve. In 1987 NABU acquired a 4.5 hectare property with alder quarries , wet meadows , hedgerows and dry grasslands and withdrew this from use. It was not until 1999 that today's nature reserve was designated, which has been looked after by the Schleswig-Holstein State Association of the German Nature Conservation Union since 2000.

The Herrenteich is used for fishing for carp breeding . In addition, in the pond u. a. Pike , tench and eel . The pond is drained for fishing every year in October.

The shore areas of the manor pond are in the area of the nature reserve of extensive siltation zones with reeds , Hochstaudenfluren , United seggenrieder , embossed willow swamps, alder swamps and wet meadows. This is followed by grassland areas, forest areas and isolated dry, poor grassland . The grassland areas are partly used for agriculture.

The water areas of the Upper Herrensee are largely occupied by sea and pond roses . In the silting areas grow fern , swamp trident , swamp irises , Bogbean and orchids such as the two-blade and the Broad-winged Orchid , on the wet meadows grow marsh marigolds . The nature reserve is an important habitat for the bird world. In the reed areas, u. a. Ponds and sedge warbler , reed bunting , water rail and Spotted Crake before. The reed zones are also an important habitat for the Marsh Harrier . On the water surface of the pond u. a. Teal , gadfly , heron , pochard and golden bell can be seen, more rarely spoon , whistle , kink , pintail and mountain duck . White-tailed eagles , osprey and kingfisher occur as food guests. In winter whooper swans and dwarf swans hibernate here as well as - as long as the water surface is not frozen over - goose and dwarf hawks . There is a breeding colony of the gray heron on the banks of the Herrenteich .

The nature reserve is not accessible and can only be seen from a few places, for example from the Fischhuser Damm hiking trail, a lookout point on Poggenkamp in the west of the reserve and from the bridge over the Heilsau in Heidekamp. The Fischhuser Damm hiking trail is part of the approximately four-kilometer nature discovery trail that runs around the Untere Herrenteich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State ordinance on the nature reserve "Oberer Herrenteich" of November 1, 1999 , state regulations and state case law, state government Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Supervision of protected areas in Schleswig-Holstein , State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas , April 2017 (PDF, 275 kB). Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ Abfischen Herrenteich ( Memento from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Reinfeld-Kultur, Stadt Reinfeld (Holstein).
  4. ↑ Oberer Herrenteich ( Memento from April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), nature reserves, Stormarn Tourism.
  5. ↑ Area map of the nature reserve , Stormarn district. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ Nature experience path “Around the Herrenteich” ( Memento from April 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), City of Reinfeld (Holstein).