Biosphere Reserve Karstlandschaft Südharz

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The Biosphere Reserve Karstlandschaft Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt is a biosphere reserve under national law without recognition from UNESCO. It is the 16th biosphere reserve in Germany.

history

As early as 1992, the Thuringian state parliament commissioned the state government to create the framework for the establishment of a biosphere reserve. In a joint cabinet decision of the states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt , the development of the reserve was decided in 1992. In 2002 the reservation administration in Roßla started its work. On March 23, 2009 the reserve was finally declared a biosphere reserve by the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. Recognition by UNESCO failed in 2013 due to resistance from some affected communities to the application. The biosphere reserve according to state law already fulfills the required criteria, and in the long term recognition by UNESCO will continue to be sought.

geography

On the karst hiking trail near Questenberg , Südharz community

The biosphere reserve with an area of ​​30,034 hectares is located in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the area of ​​the cities of Allstedt and Sangerhausen and the municipalities of Berga , Südharz and Wallhausen . It extends on the southern edge of the Harz from the state border with Lower Saxony to the southern foothills of the Mansfeld mountainous region in Pölsfeld .

The gypsum karst landscape with Zechsteinablagerungen has caves , sinkholes , sinkholes , Bach shrinkage and karst springs up. In addition to beech forests , in the narrow area of ​​the steeply sloping southern Harz, a small, 1000-year-old cultural landscape with hatched and dry lawns and orchards was created . At Sangerhausen there is a post-mining landscape with tunnels and heaps. Climatically, the biosphere reserve lies at the transition from subatlantic to subcontinental characteristics.

Protection zones

The biosphere reserve is divided into the “core zone” (918 ha, 3.1%) and the “maintenance zone” (9,760 ha, 32.5%), which comprise the six nature reserves

as well as six Natura 2000 areas. While any use is excluded in the core zone, use is possible in the maintenance zone, provided that it complies with the nature reserve regulations and does not conflict with the preservation and care of the ecosystems.

The "development region" (19,356 ha, 64.4%) comprising the remaining area of the biosphere, including parts of the protected landscape "resin and Southern harzvorland". Here human management, including as a recreational area, and the demands of nature are to be taken into account equally.

tourism

The eastern part of the karst hiking trail leads through the biosphere reserve . From November 2010, more than 20 nature and landscape guides were trained. In this joint action by the biosphere reserve administration and the local community college, local nature lovers were enabled to look after tourists.

Goat grazing

In the biosphere reserve, sheep and boer goats are used at two locations ( Bösenrode and Wallhausen) to graze on open orchards. This is intended to push back the encroachment .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German biosphere reserves on the UNESCO website. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Christiane Funkel: Biosphere Reserve Karstlandschaft Südharz - implementation through state law and international recognition. In: Naturschutz im Land Sachsen-Anhalt, Volume 48, 2011, special issue: pp. 24–29 ( available online on the website of the Karst Hiking Trail Südharz , accessed on March 6, 2016).
  3. ↑ General decree on the declaration on the biosphere reserve "Karstlandschaft Südharz". MBl. LSA No. 11/2009 of March 23, 2009 (PDF)
  4. ^ Provincial farce for UNESCO title . Deutschlandfunk from April 5, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2016.
  5. ↑ No to a southern Harz biosphere reserve in Thuringia? Thüringer Allgemeine on September 14, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ Real Madness - Biosphere Reserve in the Harz Mountains. TV report of the satirical magazine extra3 of the NDR on August 6, 2014, accessed on March 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Karst landscape of the southern Harz: future for the biosphere reserve. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung on July 11, 2014, accessed on March 6, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Biosphere Reserve Karstlandschaft Südharz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 11 ° 10'  E