Oberrimbach sinkholes

	Oberrimbacher Erdfälle nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Oberrimbacher Erdfälle nature reserve
location	Creglingen and Niederstetten ( Main-Tauber district ) and Schrozberg ( Schwäbisch Hall district ), Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	71.2 ha
Identifier	1,139
WDPA ID	164901
Geographical location	49 ° 24 ' N , 10 ° 3' E Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '41 " N , 10 ° 3' 6" E
Setup date	November 6, 1985
administration	Regional Council Stuttgart

Oberrimbacher Erdfälle is a nature reserve on the boundaries of the Creglingen district of Oberrimbach and the Niederstetten district of Wildentierbach in the Main-Tauber district and the Schrozberg district of Spielbach in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

By regulation of the regional council of Stuttgart on the nature reserve Oberrimbacher sinkholes of November 6, 1985 a reserve with 71.2 hectares was designated.

Protection purpose

"The purpose of protection is the preservation of the historically valuable sinkholes ( sinkholes ) and wetlands" ( LUBW ).

Flora and fauna

It is a geologically significant area with over 100 sinkholes.

literature

Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region. Updated new edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 , pp. 361-363 (Oberrimbacher Erdfalls).

Web links

Commons : Oberrimbacher Erdfälle nature reserve - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nature Reserve Upper Rimbacher sinkholes: Portrait of the nature reserve in the reserve list of LUBW

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 361–363 (Oberrimbacher Erdfalls).
↑ ^a ^b ^c State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Oberrimbacher Erdfalls . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.

[Literatur-1] Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 361–363 (Oberrimbacher Erdfalls).

[LUBW-2] State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Oberrimbacher Erdfalls . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.