Pestrup burial ground and rose garden

Pestrup burial ground and rose garden IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Heathland and burial mounds in the nature reserve
location	Southeast of Wildeshausen
surface	39 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 062
WDPA ID	82314
Geographical location	52 ° 53 '  N , 8 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '30 "  N , 8 ° 27' 6"  E
Sea level	from 26 m to 31 m
Setup date	07/01/1938
administration	NLWKN

The Pestrup burial ground and rose garden is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony town of Wildeshausen in the Oldenburg district .

description

The nature reserve with the registration number NSG WE 062 is around 39  hectares in size. It consists of the two sub-areas “Pestruper Gräberfeld” and “Rosengarten”. The 32.4 hectare “Pestruper Gräberfeld” sub -area is also designated as an FFH area . It is of the conservation area surrounded "Pestruper Heath and clay pit". The smaller part of the "Rosengarten" area is around 500 m to the east. To the north it borders on the nature reserve “ Pestruper Moor ” and is otherwise surrounded by the nature reserve “Mittlere Hunte”.

The first protective efforts in the area of ​​the burial ground go back to the year 1819, in which the ducal chamber in Oldenburg issued the first ordinance for the protection of large stone and tumulus graves. The area has been a nature reserve since July 1, 1938. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Oldenburg.

The nature reserve is located south-east of Wildeshausen in the Pestruper Heide or on its edge that slopes down to the Hunteniederung in the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park . The sub-area “Pestruper Gräberfeld” borders predominantly on wooded areas and agricultural areas. To the east it borders on Kreisstraße 248 between Wildeshausen and Goldenstedt .

Pestrup burial ground

Birch group in the cemetery as the crash site of an American bomber in 1944

Path in the nature reserve

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The Pestrup burial ground is a large, well-developed sand heather in which there are numerous burial mounds from the late Bronze and early Iron Ages . The grave mounds and heathland are predominantly of heather and wavy hair covered and gorse bushes. In between, single or grouped birches, black pines and oaks stand tall. Bell heather sometimes settles in more humid depressions . In the north, a wooded area with burial mounds is also included in the nature reserve.

The heather areas are grazed with peat snails for maintenance . A previous arable area to the south of the burial ground is intended as a heather development area.

In the middle of the Pestrup burial ground is a group of around a dozen birch trees that are around 60 years old. The occurrence of trees in a heather area is quite unusual and can only be made possible by external influences, as tree seeds cannot sprout in the dense heather . At the point where the birch trees stand today, an American bomber crashed at the end of April 1944, when it was hit by an anti-aircraft gun from Endel (near Vechta ). The impact destroyed the heather all around so that birch trees could grow in the middle of the field (due to flying seeds ), which still mark the place where the bomber crashed.

Several paths run through the nature reserve.

rose Garden

The rose garden is a former heathland, which today is mostly covered with bushes or forests due to the lack of grazing. In clearings and along forest edges nor Gentile can be found. The partial area of ​​the nature reserve borders mainly on wooded areas. In the north, a forest path runs along the edge of the nature reserve.

The name "rose garden" goes back to an earlier horse resting place and pasture or an area with strong wild rose growth .

Web links

Commons : Nature reserve Pestruper grave field and rose garden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Pestruper Gräberfeld und Rosengarten" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pestruper Gräberfeld , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved April 25, 2019.
2. ↑ Dierk Rohdenburg: Almost 100 ewes tend the burial ground , Kreiszeitung , October 7, 2015. Accessed April 25, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kathrin Harm: More heathland for the Pestrup burial ground , Delme Report, November 20, 2016. Accessed on February 14, 2017.
4. ↑ Dierk Rohdenburg: New heathland for the Pestrup burial ground , Kreiszeitung, November 18, 2016. Accessed on February 14, 2017.
5. ↑ A humming sea of ​​flowers on the Pestrup burial ground , Delmenhorster Kurier , August 28, 2014. Accessed on February 14, 2017.
6. ↑ Uta-Maria Kramer: Rose garden resembles green jungle , Nordwest-Zeitung , August 27, 2012. Accessed on February 14, 2017.
7. ↑ Hiking trail no. 2: To the Kleinenkneter Steinen , Wildeshausen Navigator. Retrieved February 14, 2017.