Salt station near Hecklingen

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 18 ″  E

Salt station near Hecklingen​

Saxony-Anhalt

The salt station near Hecklingen is a nature reserve in Hecklingen in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0035 is 14.76  hectares . It is a component of around 35 hectares, the same FFH area and the conservation area surrounded "Bode valley". The area, which largely borders on agricultural land , has been under protection since the beginning of 1926 (date of regulation: January 25, 1926). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Salzlandkreis.

The nature reserve is located between Staßfurt and Hecklingen. It protects an important point of inland salt , where salty water comes to the surface via brine springs . Ditches lead the salty spring water to the Beek, a tributary of the Bode . The area is characterized by small salt meadows and pastures, on which typical, halotolerant plants such as white ostrich grass , strawberry clover , narrow-leaf horn clover , salt purse, swamp trident , rye barley and distant sedge grow. In the trenches are u. a. Salt bungee and marsh pond thread can be found, on the edges of the ditch there are reeds with real marshmallow and common beach ledges . In the transition area to halophilic meadow communities, celery and large flea herb can be found. Moist areas are occupied by swaths of salt - beach aster societies and small areas of rushes - milkweed societies. There are also salt mud sites with samphire and littered beach sod with salt chickweed and winged chickweed .

The nature reserve is a habitat of various species of birds such as sedge warbler , reed bunting , yellow wagtail , Whinchat , marsh harrier and lapwing , all breed here. The salt station is also an important habitat for numerous insects . So here come dragonflies as scarce blue-tailed damselfly and Southern Emerald Damselfly , locusts as long - and Kurzflüglige sword-warrior and chorthippus albomarginatus , various butterflies and bugs and halobionte and halophilic ground beetles and rove beetles (eg. Bledius bicornis and Bledius unicornis ) ago.

literature

• Christian Bank, Dietmar Spitzenberg: The Hecklingen Saltworks: Representation of one of the most important inland saltworks in Germany at the moment . Faunistics and Ecology Section Staßfurt, 2001.

Web links

• Salt station near Hecklingen , State Administration Office Saxony-Anhalt
• The current butterfly fauna of the NSG "Salzstelle Hecklingen" , specialist group Faunistics and Ecology Staßfurt
• Investigations on the current dragonfly fauna in selected natural inland salt areas on the southern edge of the Magdeburg Börde , Faunistics and Ecology Section Staßfurt
• On the grasshopper fauna of the NSG Salzstelle Hecklingen , Faunistics and Ecology Section Staßfurt
• The aquatic coleopteras of the NSG "Salt Point near Hecklingen" , Dietmar Spitzenberg, Faunistics and Ecology Section Staßfurt