Lichen moss

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View of the Scheibenlechtenmoos in east direction
Water points in the moor
Bog eye
The Scheibenlechtenmoos in the cirque below the Spießhorn

The Scheibenlechtenmoos is a silting up moor below the Spießhorn near Menzenschwand in the Black Forest .

Geology and soil conditions

The Scheibenlechtenmoos high moor was formed in an Ice Age cirque ( Scheibenlechtenmoos-cirque ) at an altitude of 1079 m to the west above the village of Menzenschwand (Hinterdorf district), on the eastern slope of the Spießhorn ( 1351  m ). The wooded cirque walls, which are mainly made of Bärhaldegranit (GBA), rise about 140 m steeply above the moor and are enclosed by a mighty ring of rocks. Towards the valley, the cirque is closed by a terminal moraine .

The peat formation on the Karboden is currently up to six meters thick. Sedimentological investigations at the bottom of the moor revealed evidence of Laacher Bimstuff , which suggests that the moor was over 10,000 years old. According to pollen analyzes, the formation goes back as far as 11,000 years. Underneath are layers of the Older Dryas Period ( Young Pleistocene ).

flora

Numerous rare plants grow in the disc moss, including the round-leaved sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ). On the way to the moor, the common butterwort ( Pinguicula vulgaris ) was found on a spring slope on the outskirts of Menzenschwand a few years ago . This location is now extinct.

fauna

The Scheibenlechten area is characterized by the occurrence of very rare dragonfly species with the highest value.

Old marking of the former Scheibenlechtenmoos nature reserve

Conservation and Tourism

The Moor is of the silting threatened. The municipality of Menzenschwand ensures that the moor is preserved in the future by damming the moor outflow.

Until a few years ago, there was a separate nature reserve, Scheibenlechtenmoos (1939–1991). Today the high moor is in the Feldberg nature reserve .

It is accessible from the valley town of Menzenschwand via a steep, little-used hiking trail.

literature

  • R. Hantke, G. Rahm: The early late glacial in the source branches of the Alb (southern Black Forest). In: Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich. 121, pp. 294-299 (1976).

Web links

Commons : Lichen Moss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance of the Freiburg Regional Council on the "Feldberg" nature and landscape protection area , .lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de, September 27, 1991, accessed on August 18, 2013.

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E