Rühler Moor

Rühler Moor IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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location	Southwest of Meppen , Emsland district , Lower Saxony
surface	708 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 256
WDPA ID	378352
Geographical location	52 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 39 '5 "  N , 7 ° 10' 41"  E
Sea level	from 15 m to 23 m
Setup date	September 1, 2007
administration	NLWKN

The Rühler Moor is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxon town of Meppen and the communities of Geeste and Twist in the Emsland district .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG WE 256 is approximately 708  hectares . It has been under nature protection since September 1, 2007. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Emsland.

The nature reserve is located southwest of Meppen in the international nature park Bourtanger Moor-Bargerveen and is part of the Bourtanger Moor . The area provides a high moor area under protection, which is still a large area at the time of industrially under protection abgetorft was. The peat ends between 2015 and 2023. After the end of the peat bogs are such that already were dug up areas by rewetting supplied to the restoration.

Near-natural raised bogs and raised bog regeneration stages , bog heaths and birch forest can be found in the protected area . In the edge areas of the nature reserve, areas are partly used as grassland for agriculture.

In addition to peat extraction, there are facilities for the extraction of natural gas and crude oil in the southwest of the nature reserve . In the south of the nature reserve there is an almost 2 km long section of the 11 km long moor energy adventure trail , which runs from the Emsland moor museum near Geeste- Groß Hesepe to the oil and natural gas museum in Twist. At several stations along the route, information on the subject of bog, oil and gas production and agriculture is given. The stations on the subjects of "peat formation and mining", "crude oil-natural gas production" and "renaturation" are located in or on the edge of the nature reserve.

Web links

• Nature reserve "Rühler Moor" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rühlermoor ( Memento from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), ExxonMobil Production Germany.
2. ↑ Moor energy adventure trail , Int. Bourtanger Moor-Bargerveen Nature Park V. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
3. ↑ Moor energy adventure trail ( memento from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Geeste municipality.