Pennewitzer Teiche and Unteres Wohlrosetal

Pennewitzer Teiche - Lower Wohlrose Valley IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Pennewitzer Teich Zweizapfenteich
location	Ilm district , Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district , Thuringia
surface	4.246 km²
WDPA ID	329571
Geographical location	50 ° 40 ′  N , 11 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 6 ″  E
Setup date	2004
administration	Ilm district

The nature reserve Pennewitzer Teiche and Unteres Wohlrosetal is a nature reserve in Thuringia , it is located north of Gehren in the Ilm district and in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district . The nature reserve has a total size of 419.2 hectares.

Neighboring places are Langewiesen in the west, Gräfinau-Angstedt in the north, Pennewitz in the east and Jesuborn and Gehren in the south. The extension of the nature reserve is about five kilometers in an east-west direction and three kilometers in a north-south direction.

The nature reserve Pennewitzer Teiche and Unteres Wohlrosetal is fed by the rivers Lohme and Ilm in the west and the Wohlrose in the east and comprises around 100 ponds (blast holes) and ponds. In the southwest of the area is the Lohmetal with some ponds, the Heideteich and the Löschwasserteiche directly on the outskirts of Gehren. In the northwest, in the Ilm valley, are the Herrenteiche , in the middle the Esbachteich ( water lily pond ) and in the east on the Wohlrose the two-cone ponds and the Sorger ponds . The forest area Schönheide lies between the individual pond groups , in which there are still numerous water-filled ponds (blast holes). The high water input favored the development of peat forest areas.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Ilm district

Web links

Commons : Pennewitzer Teiche nature reserve - Unteres Wohlrosetal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nature reserves in the Ilmkreis. Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), September 2009, accessed on April 14, 2011 : "The NSG 337" Pennewitzer Teiche - Unteres Wohlrosetal "represents a section of the gently undulating hilly landscape north of the Thuringian Forest with shallow creek valleys. ... With its around 100 breeding bird species, including the tree falcon , snipe and goat milker , the NSG is one of the ornithologically most important areas in Thuringia. "