Pfaffenbusch
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 47 " N , 11 ° 31 ′ 58" E
The Pfaffenbusch is a nature reserve in the town of Aschersleben in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0074 is 7.9 hectares in size. It is part of the FFH area "dry slopes in the Wippertal near Sandersleben". The area has been under protection since 1926 (date of ordinance: January 25, 1926). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Salzlandkreis.
The nature reserve is located northwest of Sandersleben (Anhalt) and west of Freckleben. It protects a forest remnant in a gorge-like deepened side valley of the Wipper on the edge of the Sanderslebener Höhe.
Different forest communities have developed on the slopes and in the valley. A cinquefoil oak forest with pedunculate oak , sessile oak and field maple in the tree layer grows on shallow, warm locations on the southern upper slope . The shrub layer is made up of red dogwood , European eucoat and common privet . In the herb layer there are Turkish lily , nodding pearl grass , black pea , white cinquefoil , diptame , oak lettuce , large-flowered foxglove and peach-leaved bellflower .
On the south-central slope, hornbeam-field elm forest grows with summer linden, hazel root and forest grass , cowslip and field maple.
Sessile oak-hornbeam forest grows in deeper locations, in whose herb layer on fresh lower slopes bouquet-blooming usury flowers , bear pods , forest rennet , different-leaved fescue and spotted lungwort can be found.
The nature reserve has a species-rich avifauna . Almost fifty breeding bird species have been identified here.
The nature reserve is almost completely surrounded by arable land .
