Schambachried

	Schambachried IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Flemmühle in the Treuchtlinger Schambachtal. Watercolor by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt, No. 1260
location	Schambach
surface	6.88
Identifier	NSG-00099.01
WDPA ID	82506
Geographical location	48 ° 58 ' N , 10 ° 56' E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '2 " N , 10 ° 56' 13" E
Setup date	1973
administration	Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district

The Schambachried in the Treuchtlinger Schambachtal is about eleven kilometers long and is one of the oldest and, at 7.1 hectares, the smallest nature reserve in Middle Franconia . It is located 1.5 km northeast of Treuchtlingen and half a kilometer west of the village of Schambach in the Bavarian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The valley is traversed by the eponymous Schambach, which, coming from the east, flows into the Altmühl near Treuchtlingen . Places, mills and farmsteads of this Jura valley are downstream near the origin Laubenthal , then Suffersheim , Potschmühle , Hammermühle , Flemmühle , Obere Papiermühle , the place Schambach, the Untere Papiermühle and finally Treuchtlingen. In Suffersheim, next to the foundation walls of a medieval church, there is the new Gunthildis chapel , built in 1993-95 , which has the shape of an ammonite . In the nature reserve there is a very rare lime moor , a former litter meadow . Pipe grasses , small sedge , orchids and cotton grass grow in the valley .

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