Schönitzer See (nature reserve)
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 9 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 42 ″ E
The Schönitzer See is a nature reserve in the town of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .
The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0097 is around 145 hectares . It is part of the FFH area “Dessau-Wörlitzer Elbauen” and the EU bird sanctuary “Middle Elbe including Steckby-Lödderitzer Forest”. The nature reserve is the conservation area around the "Middle Elbe". The area has been under protection since 2001 (date of regulation: July 10, 2001). The nature reserve of the same name, which was designated on May 1, 1961, was incorporated into it. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Wittenberg district.
The nature reserve named after the flat water lake of the same name is located east of Wörlitz in the Elbe River Landscape Biosphere Reserve . It includes the Schönitzer Lake and the north subsequent Radehochsee, backwaters of the Elbe , and because adjacent land. The nature reserve is separated from the river dynamics by the Elbe dike. The northern part of the nature reserve with the Radehochsee is still flooded when the Elbe floods. The Radehochsee is traversed by the river ditch that drains the Elbe.
The Schönitzer lake is mostly of reeds and sedge from reed , broadleaf cattail , Ästigem bur-reed , water vapors , Schlanksegge and reed canary grass surrounded. Furthermore, here settle spearwort , Scheinzypergrassegge and Flowering . Moist herbaceous vegetation adjoin the reeds . Incidentally, the areas in the nature reserve are characterized by grassland with species-poor bedstraw-foxtail societies and, in small areas, species-rich Schmielen-Silau societies. On the banks of Radehochsees also falter remnants of alluvial forests , alder forests and gray willows.
The Schönitzer See is the habitat of the Elbe beaver . The reed zones along its banks offer numerous bird species a suitable habitat, including grebes , Pochard , reed warbler , reed warbler and sedge warbler , all also breed here. Furthermore, the lake with the surrounding grassland has a supra-regional importance as a resting and wintering area for water birds .
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