Vineyards and waters at Mengen and Pfullendorf
FFH area "Riede und Gewässer bei Mengen and Pfullendorf"
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Im Taubenried (June 2015) |
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location | District of Sigmaringen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany | |
surface | 5.4 km² | |
Identifier | DE-8021-311 | |
WDPA ID | 555623532 | |
Natura 2000 ID | DE8021311 | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 56 ' N , 9 ° 17' E | |
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Setup date | May 31, 2015 | |
administration | Regional Council Tübingen | |
particularities | nine sub-areas |
The FFH area Riede und Gewässer bei Mengen and Pfullendorf is located in the south of Baden-Württemberg and is part of the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas . It was designated in 2015 through the amalgamation of three already existing FFH areas by the Tübingen regional council.
location
The approximately 540 hectares (ha) large reserve "Riede and water in quantities and Pfullendorf" is one of the natural area of Upper Swabian hills and the Danube Ablach plates . The nine sub-areas are spread across the eight cities and communities Herdwangen-Schönach , Hohentengen , Mengen , Meßkirch , Ostrach , Pfullendorf , Sigmaringen and Wald .
Protection purpose
The main protection purpose is the preservation of several low moor complexes , mainly used as grassland , small-scale transitional moors and litter meadows partly planted with forest, as well as three caves between Sigmaringen and Meßkirch, a wooded valley with rocks, three ponds surrounded by forest, the locality of Menningen, a former gravel pit and a silted-up dead ice hole .
Habitat types
The following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:
EU code |
* | Habitat type (official name) | Short name |
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3130 | Oligo- to mesotrophic standing water with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and / or the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea | Nutrient-poor to moderately nutrient-rich still waters | |
3150 | Natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation | Natural nutrient-rich lakes | |
3260 | Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion | Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation | |
6210 | Near-natural dry lime lawns and their stages of shrubbery (Festuco-Brometalia) | Lime grassland | |
6410 | Pipe grass meadows on lime-rich soil, peaty and clayey-silty soils (Molinion caeruleae) | Pipe grass meadows | |
6430 | Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level | Moist tall herbaceous vegetation | |
6510 | Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis) | Lean, lowland hay meadows | |
7140 | Transitional and swinging lawn bogs | Transitional and swinging lawn bogs | |
7230 | Lime-rich fens | Lime-rich fens | |
8210 | Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation | Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation | |
8310 | Caves that are not open to tourists | Caves and balms | |
9130 | Woodruff beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum) | Woodruff beech forest | |
9180 | * | Mixed ravine and hillside forests (Tilio-Acerion) | Mixed ravine and hillside forests |
91E0 | * | Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) | Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow |
Habitat classes
Non-forest areas with wooden plants, scrub, etc. | 1 % | |||
Deciduous forest | 5% | |||
Mixed forest | 17% | |||
Coniferous forest | 13% | |||
moist and mesophilic grassland | 27% | |||
Inland waters, flowing and standing | 1 % | |||
Bogs, swamps, vegetation on the banks | 21% | |||
Dry grassland | 4% | |||
Heath, steppe, dry grass | 5% | |||
Inland rocks, rubble and rubble heaps, sandy areas | 3% | |||
Different farmland | 3% | |||
Species inventory
The following types of community interest exist in the area:
image | EU code |
* | Art | scientific name | Species group |
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1014 | Narrow diaper snail | Vertigo angustior | Snails | |
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1059 | Light blue ant bluebird | Maculinea teleius | Butterflies | |
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1163 | Bullhead | Cottus gobio | Fish and round mouths | |
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1166 | Crested newt | Triturus cristatus | Amphibians | |
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1193 | Yellow-bellied toad | Bombina variegata | Amphibians | |
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1324 | Great mouse ear | Myotis myotis | Mammals | |
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1337 | beaver | Castor fiber | Mammals | |
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1381 | Green broom moss | Dicranum viride | Mosses | |
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1903 | Marsh glosswort | Liparis loeselii | plants |
meaning
The sub-areas are evidence of the Ice Age and post-Ice Age landscape development in the upcoming White Jura on the southernmost edge of the Swabian Alb with the last Jura foothills in the midst of glacial deposits. Characteristic are today predominantly agricultural areas with relics of fen habitats, such as moor grass meadows, and occurrence of Hellen Burnet Ant Bläulings , the Green broom moss , the greater mouse-ear , the great crested newt and the yellow-bellied toad .
history
The protected area was created in 2014/2015 by combining the three FFH areas originally reported to the European Union: "Enzkofer Ried and Mengener Riedle" (7922-341), " Areas between Sigmaringen and Meßkirch " (7920-341) and "Ruhestätter Ried, Egelseeried and Taubenried ”(8121-341).
Connection with other protected areas
With the FFH area "Riede und Gewässer bei Mengen and Pfullendorf", the " Obere Donau Nature Park ", the nature reserves " Egelsee-Ried " (4,110), " Ruhestetter Ried " (4,271) and " Taubenried " (4,288) are landscape conservation areas “ Enzkofer Ried ” (4.37.037), “Ruhestetter Ried” (4.37.005 and 4.37.040) and “Taubenried” (4.37.041) as well as the bird sanctuary “ Baggerseen Krauchenwies / Zielfingen ” (7921-401) are designated as contiguous protected areas .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of the protected area
- ↑ a b Freiburg Regional Council (ed.): Management plan for the FFH area 8021-311 "Riede and waters near Mengen and Pfullendorf" and for the bird sanctuary 7921-401 "Baggerseen Krauchenwies / Zielfingen" - . edited by the Institute for Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation (ILN) Singen. July 13, 2016 (274 pages, baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).
- ^ List of the State Institute for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW): Consolidated FFH areas , Karlsruhe , January 2016; accessed on February 8, 2016
Web links
- Standard data sheet for the FFH area "Riede und Gewässer bei Mengen and Pfullendorf"
- Profile of the FFH area Riede und Gewässer bei Mengen and Pfullendorf in the protected area directory of the LUBW
- Regional Council Tübingen (Hrsg.): Management plan for the FFH area 8021-311 "Riede und Gewässer bei Mengen and Pfullendorf" and for the bird sanctuary 7921-401 "Baggerseen Krauchenwies / Zielfingen" - . edited by the Institute for Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation (ILN) Singen. July 13, 2016 (274 pages, baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).