Odenwald (landscape protection area)

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Landscape protection area "Odenwald"

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

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location Eberbach , Heddesbach , Heiligkreuzsteinach , Schönau , Weinheim and Wilhelmsfeld in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface 60.82 km²
Identifier 2.26.041
WDPA ID 323444
Geographical location 49 ° 28 '  N , 8 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '27 "  N , 8 ° 48' 48"  E
Odenwald (landscape protection area) (Baden-Württemberg)
Odenwald (landscape protection area)
Setup date November 26, 1996
administration District Office Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
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Odenwald is a nature reserve in the Rhine-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg .

Location and description

The approximately 6,082 hectare landscape protection area is located in the Odenwald between Neckargemünd and the southern Hessian Abtsteinach on the state border with Hesse and was created by ordinance of the district office Rhein-Neckar-Kreis of November 26, 1996. At the same time, the ordinance of the regional council of North Baden came into effect on the landscape conservation area Odenwald I, District of Heidelberg and Centwald, district of Lützelsachsen, district of Mannheim of April 8, 1965, as well as the ordinance for the protection of the Schafbachtal district of Schönau in the district of Heidelberg of May 8, 1958, expires.

It belongs to the natural areas 144- Buntsandstein-Odenwald and 145- Crystalline Odenwald within the natural spatial main unit 14- Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön .

Protection purpose

According to the Protected Area Ordinance, an essential protection purpose is the preservation of the Odenwald landscape in its basic features and in its characteristic expression. Characteristic features of this landscape are deeply cut main and side valleys with narrow floodplains, basins, blades , pronounced ridges, knolls, richly moved, elongated slopes and shaped small terrain structures such as hollows, gullies, cuttings, leveling and slopes. The natural water system as well as the natural distribution and shape of the areas determined by groundwater and surface water, including the vegetation typical of the location, should be preserved. These are essentially wetlands , springs , rivers and their floodplains as well as floodplains near the water. The field-forest distribution should not be changed significantly and, above all, the valleys and structured grassland slopes as forest-free zones should be preserved or largely restored. The use of the land, which is oriented towards the natural conditions and which causes the variety of manifestations of the cultural landscape, must be preserved and restored.

Characteristic design elements that determine the cultural landscape of the Odenwald are:

  • the valleys of the Steinach, Laxbach, Brombach and Finkenbach including the side valleys like Eiterbachtal, Hilsbachtal, Schafbachtal with meadow use and near-natural riparian wood;
  • Corridor woods on embankments, roadsides and roadsides, orchards, stone bars, field stone walls and boulder fields;
  • elongated, protruding and receding field-forest borders with stepped forest edges made of deciduous trees;
  • large, closed forest areas on both sides of the Eiterbach and Steinach, south of Heiligkreuzsteinach and around Brombach;
  • small-scale forests on the hilltops of the Heiligkreuzsteinach district;
  • the grassland use of the slopes such as in the surroundings of Brombach, Heddesbach, Wilhelmsfeld, Bärsbach, Heiligkreuzsteinach, Vorderheubach, Hinterheubach, in the Schafbachtal and in the Eiterbachtal.

Significant impairment of the habitats and communities of the native flora and fauna, especially in the damp floodplains and slopes with seepage water, should be avoided according to their typical shape and the number of individuals and species, and the efficiency of the natural balance, especially for regeneration, should be avoided primarily with means of ecologically oriented land use in the full scope is to be maintained or restored.

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