Schönecker Switzerland

Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 25 ″  E

Schönecker Switzerland​

Rhineland-Palatinate

Blackthorn blossom in Schönecker Switzerland

The Schönecker Switzerland is since 1991 under conservation protruding part of the Prüm Kalkmulde shows that even natural or semi-natural forms of Kalkmuldenlandschaft. With 865 hectares, the largest nature reserve in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate extends over parts of the districts Schönecken , Niederhersdorf , Oberhersdorf , Giesdorf , Rommersheim , Fleringen and Wallersheim . The ordinance states the protective purpose:

" Protection purpose is the preservation and development of the Schönecker Schweiz as an area of ​​national representative importance with its distinctive parts of the landscape, in particular the Altburger Bachtal, the Kupferbach and Schalkenbachtal, the Greimelscheid and Walbert, the Burg-, Forst- and Merker-Berg as largest contiguous natural and near-natural part of the Prümer Kalkmulde . "

- Ordinance on the nature reserve "Schönecker Schweiz"

Ecosystems

View into the Aubachtal, August 2017

Emphasis is placed on the mosaic-like interlocking ecosystems such as semi- arid grasslands , dry grasslands , rock ecosystems , fringing biocenoses , deciduous forests , in particular canyon and beech forests , floodplains, flowing waters , large sedge reeds and wet meadows rich in perennials, as well as the extensively used flora and fauna numerous rare and critically endangered species . All of this would be in connection with the special scenic beauty caused by the variety of landscape elements, such as steep slopes , high plateaus , ravine valleys, kerbbole valleys, juniper heaths and the geologically determined karst phenomena such as sinkholes and stream shrinkages , caves, rock crevices , steep rock faces and broken edges, layer heads and stratified ridges . The representative example of a limestone area on a submontane (not in the high mountains) altitude level with a suboceanic climate with a geomorphologically determined microclimate and the importance as an old cultural and settlement land was therefore placed under special protection as a nature reserve.

The nature reserve is a retreat for 60 butterfly species .

geology

The "Schönecker dolomite" comes mainly from the stage of Givetian , that was about before about 387.7 million years ago to about 382,700,000 years deposited. It is accordingly divided into:

• Bolsdorf layers
• Kerpen layers
• Rodert layers
• Three mill layers
• Cürten layers
• Loogh layers

In the immediate vicinity of Schönecker Schweiz is the Wetteldorfer directional cut , protected by the Ludwig-Happel-Hütte , the only GSSP in Germany. The outcrop marks the border between the Emsium and the Eifelium and thus between the Lower Devonian and the Middle Devonian before 393.3 Mya .

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Web links

Commons : Schönecker Switzerland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• World Database on Protected Areas - Schönecker Switzerland (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Ordinance on the nature reserve "Schönecker Schweiz" ; Bitburg-Prüm district from November 25, 1991; On the basis of Section 21 of the State Care Act in the version of March 27, 1987 (GVBL. P. 70).
2. ^ Entry on Schönecker Switzerland in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on July 14, 2017.
3. ↑ R. Werner and Plodowski (1997) Geological hikes between Prum and Schönecken ; Tourist Office of the Association of Prüm; R. Werner died in 1994, his guide, written in 1980, was published again in 1997 by the Association of Prüm.
4. ↑ Highlights in the Devonian of Germany: GSSP Wetteldorfer Richtschnitt (Ems / Eifel border) , on the website of the Senckenberg Institute; Retrieved July 6, 2017.