Spring areas and brooks on the Lohweg

	Nature reserve "source areas and source streams on the Lohweg" IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	Location , Lippe District , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	13 ha
Identifier	LIP-069
WDPA ID	329577
Geographical location	51 ° 56 ' N , 8 ° 46' E Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '10 " N , 8 ° 45' 34" E
Setup date	2004

The spring areas and spring brooks on Lohweg is a nature reserve designated in 2004 by the Detmold regional council (NSG number LIP-069) in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Lage in the Lippe district in Germany .

location

The approximately 13 hectare large nature reserve source areas and headwaters on Lohweg is one natural area to Lipper Bergland . It extends around six kilometers south-south-west of downtown Lagens, between the districts of Hörste in the north-west, Stapelage in the north-east and the Teutoburg Forest in the south.

description

The protected area source areas and source streams on the Lohweg is defined as an area of "near-natural wet and dry biotopes in close spatial interlinking with creek-accompanying alder (quarry) forest, wet grassland, a dune with larger open sand areas, silver grass pioneer meadow, mixed pine forest and birch quarry forest on spring location ".

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the "protection and maintenance of a near-natural stream course, endangered forest and wet grassland communities as well as open dune locations".

Habitat and biotope types

In the protected area spring areas and spring brooks on the Lohweg , the habitat and biotope types "bog and quarry forests", "forests on dune locations and nutrient-poor sandy soils", "stream accompanying alder forest", "quell brook", "birch quarry forest", "fat meadow" and Described "fallow wet and humid grassland".