Rotachtal Lake Constance

The Rotachtal Bodensee area is a protected area (SG number DE-8222342) in the southeast of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, designated by the Tübingen regional council in accordance with Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) .

location

The around 466 hectare (ha) large protected area Rotachtal Bodensee belongs naturally to the Bodensee basin and the Upper Swabian hill country . Its four areas are at a height of 398 to 658 m above sea level. NHN and extend to 62 percent (= 289.0 ha) in the Bodenseekreis ( Deggenhausertal , Friedrichshafen , Oberteuringen ) and 38 percent (= 177.2 ha) in the district of Ravensburg (municipality of Horgenzell ).

The sub-areas include the area of the Rotach between Horgenzell in the north and its confluence with Lake Constance between Eriskirch and Langenargen in the south.

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of the Rotach valley up to the confluence with Lake Constance with deeply cut ravines in the upper reaches, as well as the low moor area , Altweiherwiese and clay pit .

Habitat types

The large number of habitat types with near-natural ravine forests and alluvial forests , as well as marshy grass meadows as evidence of earlier land use, is mainly characterized by the following habitats: mixed forest (31%), moist and mesophilic grassland (26%), deciduous (15%) and coniferous forest (13%) ).

The following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU code	*	Habitat type (official name)	Short name
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
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
7220	*	Tufa springs (cratoneurion)	Tufa springs
7230		Lime-rich fens	Lime-rich fens
8210		Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation	Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation
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

Species inventory

The following types of community interest exist in the area:

EU code	*	Art	scientific name	Species group
1013		Four-toothed diaper snail	Vertigo geyeri	Snails
1014		Narrow diaper snail	Vertigo angustior	Snails
1016		Bellied diaper snail	Vertigo moulinisana	Snails
1032		Small river mussel	Unio crassus	Shellfish
1083	*	Stag beetle	Lucanus cervus	Beetle
1093	*	Stone cancer	Austropotamobius torrentium	Crayfish
1131		Strömer	Leuciscus souffia agassizi	Fish and round mouths
1163		Bullhead	Cottus gobio	Fish and round mouths
1166		Crested newt	Triturus cristatus	Amphibians
1193		Yellow-bellied toad	Bombina variegata	Amphibians
1323		Bechstein's bat	Myotis bechsteinii	Mammals
1324		Great mouse ear	Myotis myotis	Mammals
1337		beaver	Castor fiber	Mammals
1902		Yellow lady's slipper	Cypripedium calceolus	plants
1903		Marsh glosswort	Liparis loeselii	plants

Contiguous protected areas

The following protected areas are part of the FFH area:

No.	Surname	Places	Area share [%]
NSG 4.093	Altweiherwiese Large cohesive reeds with surrounding littered meadows and alder borders and willow bushes in them as a habitat for a rich flora and fauna.	Oberteuringen	16
	Altweiherwiese and Taldorfer Bach Geologically significant meltwater channel of the Würm late glacial as a valley section of the Ur-Argen .	Oberteuringen	4th
LSG 4.36.016	Rotachtobel and Zußdorf Forest	Horgenzell	28
LSG 4.35.001	Württemberg shore of Lake Constance Natural beaches and beach forests of Lake Constance with black poplar and oak trees as the predominant wood on the shore.	Friedrichshafen

Web links

Commons : FFH area Rotachtal Bodensee - collection of images, videos and audio files

Standard data sheet for the FFH area "Rotachtal Bodensee"

Profile of the FFH area Rotachtal Bodensee in the protected area directory of the LUBW

Regional Council Tübingen (Ed.): Management plan for the FFH area 8222-342 "Rotachtal Bodensee" . edited by INULA, Freiburg. December 1, 2017 (174 pages, baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).

Climate data and scenarios for the protected area from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Individual evidence

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