Rotasweiher-Degermoos

	"Rotasweiher-Degermoos" nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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location	Wangen im Allgäu , Ravensburg district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	52.69 ha
Identifier	4,039
WDPA ID	82140
Geographical location	47 ° 38 ' N , 9 ° 48' E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '21 " N , 9 ° 47' 31" E
Setup date	April 23, 1993
administration	Regional Council Tübingen

The Rotasweiher-Degermoos area is a nature reserve (NSG number 4.222) in the area of the city of Wangen im Allgäu in the district of Ravensburg , Baden-Württemberg in Germany, which was designated by ordinance of April 23, 1993 by the Tübingen regional council .

location

The 53 hectare (ha) nature reserve Rotasweiher-Degermoos is part of the Westallgäu hill country . It is located about 6.5 kilometers southwest of downtown Wangen on the Neuravensburg district , between the hamlets of Untermoorweiler and Engetsweiler , at an altitude of 540 to 550 m above sea level. NN .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation, maintenance and partial restoration of an extremely richly structured moor complex with interspersed mineral grasslands as

Habitat and retreat area for a species-rich and sometimes highly endangered animal and plant world,
important part of the Degermoos bog complex , which extends with its high bog core into neighboring Bavarian area (additional approx. 70.5 ha),

important component in the habitat network of wetlands in the Württemberg Allgäu and

Testimony to a cultural landscape that has grown and used extensively for many centuries.

Flora and fauna

flora

Of the flora worthy of protection - of the approx. 250 higher plant species mapped to date in the protected area, 14 are considered severely endangered and 41 are endangered - the following species should be named:

Orchid, from the orchid family:

Flesh-colored orchid ( Dactylorhiza incarnata )
Marsh Orchid ( Dactylorhiza majalis ), and Broad Fingerroot called

Lung gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe), a member of the gentian family

Flour primrose ( Primula farinosa ), a species from the primrose family

Rostred Kopfried ( Schoenus ferrugineus )

Swallowwort gentian ( Gentiana asclepiadea ), also from the gentian family

Swamp hairline or oil senich ( Peucedanum palustre ), a member of the umbelliferae family

Globe flower ( Trollius europaeus ), from the buttercup family

White hellebore ( Veratrum album ), a plant belonging to the family of melanthiaceae

fauna

The structural floristic richness in the juxtaposition of different forms of use and waste stages as well as the large area of the protected area form the basis for an extraordinarily high diversity in the animal world; this is especially true for arachnids , insects and birds such as snipe , red backed killer and reed warbler .

Web links

Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
Weblink of the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)

Individual evidence

^ Ordinance of the regional council of Tübingen on the nature reserve "Rotasweiher-Degermoos" of April 23, 1993 (Journal of Laws of July 12, 1993, p. 370)

[1] Ordinance of the regional council of Tübingen on the nature reserve "Rotasweiher-Degermoos" of April 23, 1993 (Journal of Laws of July 12, 1993, p. 370)