Owen (landscape protection area)

Landscape protection area "Owen" IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
View of Owen and the LSG behind it
location	Owen in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	5.67 km²
Identifier	1.16.049
WDPA ID	323605
Geographical location	48 ° 35 '  N , 9 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '18 "  N , 9 ° 25' 55"  E
Setup date	5th June 1974
administration	District Office Esslingen

Owen [ ˈaʊ̯ən ] is a landscape protection area in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Location and description

The approximately 567 hectare landscape protection area consists of two sub-areas. It encompasses the western part of the Owen marker between the Dettingen unter Teck and Beuren markings, the border of the Erkenbrechtsweiler mountain peninsula and the Unterlenningen-Brucken markings as well as the entire part of the Teckberg that belongs to the Owen markings and was created by ordinance of the Esslingen District Office on June 5 1974. By ordinance of 9 November 1999, the area was reduced by 105 hectares in connection with the designation of the Teck nature reserve . At the same time, the ordinances of the former Nürtingen District Office for the protection of parts of the landscape and parts of the landscape in the Nürtingen district of October 22, 1942 and for the protection of the Tiefenbachtal part of the landscape of October 16, 1940, expired insofar as they affected the scope of the new protected area ordinance. It belongs to the natural area 101 - Middle Alb foreland within the natural spatial main unit 10 - Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of the valuable, richly structured orchards and their valuable additional structures, which are of paramount importance for the natural balance of the foothills of the Alb. In particular, the preservation of valuable additional structures, such as slope edges, grass and gravel paths, dry stone walls , lean and dry crags , fallow land and small unused areas, hedges, field trees , near-natural forests and forest edges as well as damp source areas represent an important protection purpose. In addition, an important protection purpose the preservation of the landscape as a local recreation area on the edge of the metropolitan area of ​​the central Neckar area.

See also

• List of landscape protection areas in the Esslingen district

literature

• Günter Nürk: Landscape protection areas in the Esslingen district (= guide through nature and landscape protection areas in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 13). Published by the State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg . Institute for Ecology and Nature Conservation, Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-88251-102-8 , pp. 96-97.

Web links

Commons : Owen Landscape Protection Area  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of the landscape protection area in the protected area directory of the LUBW