Salemer Moor with adjacent forests and lakes

Salemer Moor with adjacent forests and lakes IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Bank vegetation at the Garrensee
location	North of Salem , Duchy of Lauenburg district , Schleswig-Holstein
surface	690 ha
Identifier	NSG no. 4th
WDPA ID	82473
Geographical location	53 ° 41 ′  N , 10 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 34 "  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 56"  E
Setup date	2006
administration	LLUR

The Salem Moor with adjacent forests and lakes is a nature reserve in the Schleswig-Holstein city ​​of Ratzeburg and the communities of Mustin , Salem and Ziethen in the Duchy of Lauenburg .

The nature reserve is entered under number 4 in the directory of nature reserves of the Ministry for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitization . It was designated in its current form in 2006 and significantly increased from around 438 to around 690  hectares (date of regulation: July 5, 2006). The nature reserve replaces the nature reserve “Salemer Moor, Schwarze Kuhle, Plötscher See, Garrensee and Ruschensee”, which was designated as a nature reserve in 1927, “Salemer Moor und Schwarze Kuhle”. In the north it borders on the nature reserve “ Lankower Seeufer, Grammsee and the surrounding area ”. Around 678 hectares of the nature reserve are part of the FFH area of the same name and the EU bird sanctuary "Schaalsee area". The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Duchy of Lauenburg district.

The nature reserve is located southeast of Ratzeburg within the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park . It protects an ice-age meltwater channel system with pronounced depressions and steep slopes . The Salemer Moor, the lakes Ruschensee, Schwarze Kuhle, Plötscher See and Garrensee as well as the forests of Langenberg and Garrenseeholz with adjacent areas and other forest areas are in the nature reserve .

The largely outflow-free system is characterized by a small-scale change of different habitats. The largest areas of Salem Moor, lakes and other water bodies, ponds and small water bodies and forests, including breakage and bog forests and beech forests and oak-hornbeam forests taken. In addition, there are succession areas and, in the peripheral areas, arable and grassland areas .

Garrensee, Plötscher See and Schwarze Kuhle are mostly surrounded by forest areas. In the nutrient-poor Garrensee you can find the European strandling and sea ​​bream . The Black Kuhle as Moorsee is by a wide quaking - silting belt surrounded. The valley gully between the Plötscher See and the Schwarzen Kuhle was drained by a ditch until the beginning of the 21st century . It was afforested with non-native spruce . In 2001 the channel was renatured . The trench was closed, which resulted in wet site conditions in the channel again. In the following years an alder - willow forest could develop here . Also marsh plants such as marsh Calla , the Common water hose or flood end swaths settled again. The waters often have a species and structure richly developed pondweed and floating leaf vegetation .

The Salem Moor is a partially peat high moor that developed after the last ice age in a basin without drainage from a shallow reservoir that slowly silted up and was occupied by broken forest and later peat moss . Despite partial drainage and peat removal, the moor could be regenerated and typical moor vegetation such as peat moss, cotton grass , heather such as bell heather , broom heather and rosemary heather , bog berries and cranberries spread again. Partial areas of the moor are occupied by moor forest. Former agricultural areas border the moor to the north and west . These formerly intensively managed areas have been taken out of use and are developing into forest or are kept open as grassland through extensive grazing.

In the Salem Moor there are also numerous species of moor typical of the moor. The crane is also at home here again. The Salemer Moor was one of the first crane breeding grounds in Schleswig-Holstein in the early 1970s.

The forest areas in the nature reserve are often taken out of use so that they can develop undisturbed and old and dead wood can be formed. This significantly increases the biodiversity of the forest habitat, as many plants and animals depend on old and dead wood. Areas that are still in use are managed according to the guidelines of the Forest Stewardship Council . Former coniferous forests are being developed into semi-natural deciduous forest communities. The areas in the higher, dry locations are mainly occupied by beech forests. There are numerous small pools and mossy depressions in the Garrenseeholz.

With its different habitats, the nature reserve offers numerous animals and plants an important retreat. So here are among other amphibians such as tree frog , moor frog , fire-bellied toad , spadefoot and great crested newt and reptiles such as adders and grass snakes at home. The avifauna is with Kingfisher , Gray Goose , crested grebe , tufted duck , the bittern , common snipe , Hobby , Honey Buzzard , Red Kite , Red-backed Shrike , Golden Oriole , Red-breasted Flycatcher , black and middle spotted woodpecker and quail represented.

Several hiking and riding trails run through the nature reserve . Information boards are available in several places.

Web links

Commons : Salemer Moor with adjacent forests and lakes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Salemer Moor with adjacent forests and lakes , brochure from the State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 2.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Kruse-Michelsen & Andrea Kühl: A nature reserve grows and grows and ... 2006 in Schleswig-Holstein newly designated, expanded and changed nature reserves. (PDF file, 1.1 MB) Annual report, State Office for Nature and the Environment of Schleswig-Holstein. July 2006, accessed April 2, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} State ordinance on the nature reserve “Salemer Moor with adjacent forests and lakes” of July 5, 2006. State regulations and state case law. State government of Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on April 2, 2013 .