Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen

	FFH area "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen"
	View from the Knopfmacherfelsen towards Beuron
location	Districts of Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier	DE-7920-342
WDPA ID	555522058
Natura 2000 ID	DE7920342
FFH area	27.071 km²
Geographical location	48 ° 5 ' N , 9 ° 3' E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '24 " N , 9 ° 3' 12" E
Setup date	January 1, 2005
administration	Regional councils Freiburg and Tübingen

The Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen is a protected area (protected area identifier DE-7920-342) designated by ordinance of January 1, 2005 by the Freiburg and Tübingen regional councils in accordance with Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive ) in the south of the German state of Baden-Württemberg .

location

The approximately 2,700 hectare (ha) protected area "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen" is part of the natural areas of Hohe Schwabenalb , Baaralb and Upper Danube Valley and Middle Area Alb . It extends from Fridingen an der Donau in the west along the Danube Valley to Sigmaringen in the east in two districts , six municipalities and two cities :

District of Sigmaringen (2,598.8 ha = 94%)
- Municipalities of Beuron (1,732.57 ha = 63%), Inzigkofen (243.64 ha = 9%), Leibertingen (162.43 ha = 6%), Schwenningen (27.07 ha = 1%) and Stetten am kalten Markt ( 135.36 ha = 5%)
- City of Sigmaringen (297.79 ha = 10%)
Tuttlingen district (162.4 ha = 6%)
- Irndorf municipality (135.36 ha = 5%)
- City of Fridingen an der Donau (27.07 ha = 1%)

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of a breakthrough valley of the Danube with steep slopes, near-natural beech forests, mixed slope forests, large rocky areas, caves , rubble heaps, intensive grassland in the floodplain as well as lowland hay meadows and grasslands on the slopes.

Habitat types

The following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU code	*	Habitat type (official name)	Short name
3150		Natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation	Natural nutrient-rich lakes
3260		Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion	Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation
3270		Rivers with mud banks with Chenopodion rubri pp and Bidention pp vegetation	Muddy river banks with pioneer vegetation
40A0	*	Subcontinental peripannonian bushes	Rock cherry bushes *
6110	*	Gap basophilic or lime pioneer lawn (Alysso-Sedion albi)	Lime pioneer lawn
6210		Near-natural dry lime lawns and their stages of shrubbery (Festuco-Brometalia)	Lime grassland
6230	*	Species-rich montane grass grass (and submontane on mainland Europe) on silicate soils	Species-rich bristle grass lawn
6430		Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level	Moist tall herbaceous vegetation
6510		Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)	Lean, lowland hay meadows
7220	*	Tufa springs (cratoneurion)	Tufa springs
8160	*	Calcareous debris heaps of the colline to montane level of Central Europe	Lime debris heaps
8210		Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation	Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation
8310		Caves that are not open to tourists	Caves and balms
9130		Woodruff beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum)	Woodruff beech forest
9150		Central European orchid-lime-beech forest (Cephalanthero-Fagion)	Orchid beech forests
9180	*	Mixed ravine and hillside forests (Tilio-Acerion)	Mixed ravine and hillside forests
91E0	*	Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)	Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow
91U0		Pine forests of the Sarmatian steppe	Steppe pine forests

Habitat classes



Deciduous forest			47%
Coniferous forest			13%
Moist and mesophilic grassland			6%
Inland waters, flowing and standing			7%
drained terrain			15%
Heath, steppe, dry grass			2%
Inland rocks, rubble and rubble heaps, sandy areas			5%
other farmland			4%
Others (cities, roads, landfills, pits, industrial areas)			1 %

Species inventory

The following types of community interest exist in the area:

EU code	*	Art	scientific name	Species group
1078	*	Spanish flag	Callimorpha quadripunctaria	Butterflies
1087		Alpine buck	Rosalia alpina	Beetle
1134		Bitterling	Rhodeus sericeus	Fish and round mouths
1163		Bullhead	Cottus gobio	Fish and round mouths
1323		Bechstein's bat	Myotis bechsteinii	Mammals
1324		Great mouse ear	Myotis myotis	Mammals
1337		beaver	Castor fiber	Mammals
1381		Green broom moss	Dicranum viride	Mosses

meaning

In the protected area, the center of the Danube's breakthrough valley through the Swabian Alb with oxbow lakes and surrounding mountains , there is a close network of extreme locations (primarily forest-free, xerothermal rocks, debris heaps), a high proportion of natural or near-natural locations with a particularly large number of rare and endangered locations Species , castle ruins and the remains of former fortifications, prehistoric-archaeologically significant caves or balms.

Contiguous protected areas

The FFH area "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen" includes the " Upper Danube Nature Park ", the FFH areas " Schmeietal " (7820-341), " Danube between Riedlingen and Sigmaringen " (7922-342) and " Großer Heuberg und Donautal "(7919-311), the nature reserves " Stiegelesfels-Oberes Donautal "(3.271) and" Untere Au "(4.205), the landscape protection areas " Danube and Schmeiental "(4.37.036)," Feldmarkung Irndorf "(3.27. 064) and " Danube Valley with Bära- and Lippachtal " (3.27.060) as well as the bird sanctuary " Südwestalb and Upper Danube Valley " (7820-441) designated as contiguous protected areas.

Web links

Commons : FFH area Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Standard data sheet for the FFH area "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen"

Profile of the FFH area Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen in the LUBW's list of protected areas
Regional Council Freiburg (Ed.): Maintenance and development plan for the FFH area 7920-342 "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen" and the VS area 7820-441 "Southwest Alb and Upper Danube Valley" (sub-area). Modifications made by PLÖ. G. (unpublished). December 9, 2009 (272 pages, baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).

The protected area in the European Environment Agency (European Environment Agency); English

Individual evidence

↑ Profile of the FFH area in the LUBW's list of protected areas
^ ^A ^b Freiburg Regional Council (ed.): Maintenance and development plan for the FFH area 7920-342 "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen" and the VS area 7820-441 "Southwest Alb and Upper Danube Valley" (sub-area). Modifications made by PLÖ. G. (unpublished). December 9, 2009 (272 pages, baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).

[1] Profile of the FFH area in the LUBW's list of protected areas

[MaP-2] A ^b Freiburg Regional Council (ed.): Maintenance and development plan for the FFH area 7920-342 "Upper Danube Valley between Beuron and Sigmaringen" and the VS area 7820-441 "Southwest Alb and Upper Danube Valley" (sub-area). Modifications made by PLÖ. G. (unpublished). December 9, 2009 (272 pages, baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).