Rhine lowlands from Philippsburg to Mannheim

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"Rhine lowlands from Philippsburg to Mannheim"
Schwetzinger Wiesen-Riedwiesen nature reserve

Schwetzinger Wiesen-Riedwiesen nature reserve

location City district of Mannheim , district of Karlsruhe and Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier DE-6716-341
WDPA ID 555521680
Natura 2000 ID DE6716341
FFH area 36.374 km²
Geographical location 49 ° 20 '  N , 8 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '41 "  N , 8 ° 30' 54"  E
Rhine valley from Philippsburg to Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg)
Rhine lowlands from Philippsburg to Mannheim
Setup date January 1, 2005
administration Karlsruhe Regional Council
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The FFH area Rheinniederung from Philippsburg to Mannheim is a protected area (protected area identifier DE-6716-341) in the German state of Baden- which was registered in 2005 by the Karlsruhe regional council in accordance with Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive). Württemberg . With the ordinance of the regional council of Karlsruhe on the definition of areas of community importance of October 12, 2018, the protected area was established.

location

The approximately 3,637 hectares large FFH area is part of the natural environment 222- Northern Upper Rhine valley within the natural landscape main unit 22- Northern Upper Rhine lowlands . It lies between the Philippsburg district of Rheinsheim and the state border with Hesse along the Neckar and extends over the markings of nine cities and communities.

  • City district Mannheim : 509.2344 ha = 14%

District of Karlsruhe:

Rhein-Neckar district:

Description and purpose of protection

It is a floodplain landscape in the meandering zone of the Upper Rhine lowlands with pronounced high banks and recent flood dynamics. Hardwood and softwood alluvial forests and open land biotopes typical of the location, ravines and old Rhine systems, grassland complexes typical of floodplains, gravel and sand banks on the banks of the Rhine

Habitat classes

(general characteristics of the area) (percentage of total area)

Information according to the standard data sheet from the Official Journal of the European Union

N06 - inland waters (standing and flowing)
  
 20%
N10 - Moist and mesophilic grassland
  
 23%
N14 - Meliorated grassland
  
 1 %
N15 - Other farmland
  
 5%
N16 - deciduous forest
  
 39%
N21 - non-forest areas with wooden plants (fruit and olive groves, vineyards)
  
 8th %
N23 - Other (including cities, villages, roads)
  
 4%

Habitat types

According to Appendix 1 of the ordinance of the Karlsruhe Regional Council on the definition of areas of Community importance (FFH ordinance) of October 12, 2018, the following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU
code 		Habitat type (official name) Short name Hectares
3140 Oligo-to mesotrophic calcareous waters with benthic vegetation of chandelier algae Lime-rich, nutrient-poor still waters with chandelier algae 181.49
3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation Natural nutrient-rich lakes 353.50
3260 Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation 35.90
3270 Rivers with mud banks with vegetation of the Chenopodion rubri pp and the Bidention pp Muddy river banks with pioneer vegetation 2.50
6210 Near-natural dry lime lawns and their stages of shrubbery (Festuco-Brometalia) Lime grassland 1.50
6410 Pipe grass meadows on lime-rich soil, peaty and clayey-silty soils (Molinion caeruleae) Pipe grass meadows 9.80
6430 Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level Moist tall herbaceous vegetation 1.00
6440 Cnidion dubii meadow meadows Burning umbels 0.50
6510 Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) Lean, lowland hay meadows 103.50
9160 Subatlantic or Central European Pedunculate Oak Forest or Hornbeam Forest (Carpinion betuli) Chickweed-oak-hornbeam forest 4.30
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow 109.30
91F0 Hardwood forests with Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis, Ulmus minor, Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia (Ulmenion minoris) Hardwood floodplain forests 233.50

Contiguous protected areas

The FFH area consists of numerous sub-areas. It is partially congruent with several landscape protection areas and two bird protection areas. The nature reserves :

are wholly or partially within the FFH area.

See also

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