Riffelsbachtal (Monschau)

Riffelsbachtal IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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location	Monschau , Aachen city region , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	36 ha
Identifier	ACK-056
WDPA ID	318990
Natura 2000 ID	5403-304 DE 5403-304
Geographical location	50 ° 33 ′  N , 6 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 24 ″  E
Setup date	1999
Framework plan	Landscape plan Simmerath / Monschau
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Aachen city region

The Riffelsbachtal nature reserve is located in the municipality of Monschau , as well as the second nature reserve in Simmerath . The Riffelsbach rises in extensive spruce forests at the Rothe Stein forest house in a shallow, swampy trough valley and then mostly meanders through a deeply cut valley until it flows into the Rur near Hammer .

description

The upper course lies in a narrow wasteland. All spruce trees near the stream have been removed here. Accompanying the stream are pipe grass and grass clown stocks with small spring swamps rich in peat moss . At the confluence of a side stream on the left, an old alder swamp forest with stilt roots grows . The lower reaches are deeply deepened with up to three meters high steep banks in an old spruce forest. Immediately at the mouth there is a campsite and a fish pond .

Protection purpose

To be protected habitats for many after the Red List of endangered plants, fungi and animals in NRW as kingfisher , black woodpecker , gray woodpecker , dippers , common frog , slow worm , yellow daffodil , bog asphodel . These types of biotope occur in the area: wet and humid grassland, spring areas, near-natural and undeveloped stream sections, alluvial forests , swamp forests, poor meadows and pastures, canyon, block and hillside rubble forests.

Furthermore, the protected area serves to preserve natural habitats in accordance with the Habitats Directive: flowing waters with underwater vegetation , grove - beech forest , ravine and mixed hillside forests in the biotope network of the Rur valley system.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Aachen city region

Web links

• Nature reserve "Riffelsbachtal (Monschau)" (ACK-056) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia