Schönleitenmoos in the Wierlinger Forest
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NSG Schönleitenmoos in the Wierlinger Forest
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 View over the Schönleitenmoos |
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| location | Weitnau , Oberallgäu district , Bavaria | |
| surface | 23 hectares | |
| Identifier | NSG-00079.01 | |
| WDPA ID | 82549 | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 40 ' N , 10 ° 13' E | |
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| Setup date | 1959 | |
The Schönleitenmoos in the Wierlinger Forest is a nature reserve founded in 1960 ten kilometers southwest of Kempten . It comprises a 23 hectare high moor on the watershed between the Rhine and the Danube (932 m above sea level) and was created after the last Ice Age from an ice-edge lake that was formed by the melting of glacier ice masses flowing from the Alps. The lake silted up and developed into a flat and later a raised bog.
Flora
The Schönleiten Moss shows a typical transition from spruce forest on the outer edge on the tree-shaped Spirke and the bush-shaped Moorföhre (mountain pine) to bog with water-filled hollows in the center. The rust-leaved alpine rose that grows here in the Spirken moor forest forms one of the rare extra -alpine populations and was decisive for the protection of the area. Different types of peat moss ( Sphagnum cymbifolium , Sph. Acutifolium , Sph. Medium , Sph. Rubellum , Sph. Cuspidatum ) dominate most of the moor and cause the high degree of acidity. Between the peat moss cushions the stems of the levy White Beak reeds ( Rhynchospora alba ), the deergrass ( Trichophorum cespitosum ) and the vaginal wool grass ( Eriophorum vaginatum ). Among the dicotyledonous flowering plants, in addition to the rust-leaved alpine rose, the following species in particular were found:
- Moor-Wachtelweizen , ( Melampyrum pratense subsp. Paludosum ; a subspecies of Meadow quail wheat)
- Rosemary heather ( Andromedea polifolia )
- Cranberry ( Vaccinium oxycoccus )
- Round-leaved sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia )
- Heather ( Calluna vulgaris )
- Middle sundew ( Drosera intermedia )
- Bogberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum )
- Blueberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus )
- Cowberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea )
- Spotted orchid ( Orchis maculatus )
- Lesser two-leaf lattice (Listera cordata)
- Globe flower ( Trollius europaeus )
- Small rattlespot ( Rhinantus minor )
- Spring gentian ( Gentiana verna )
- Swallowwort gentian ( Gentiana asclepiadea )
Moor pines in the Schönleitenmoos
Spirits and spruces in the forest area of the Schönleitenmoos
Location of the nature reserve
literature
- Hermann Oblinger, Eberhard Günther: The nature reserves in the administrative region of Swabia . In: Reports of the Natural Science Association for Swabia eV 88th Volume, Issue 1, 1984.
- Hermann Oblinger: The Schönleitenmoos - a little-known nature reserve. Augsburg 1965, PDF on ZOBODAT
