Schießberg (Saxony-Anhalt)

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 57 ″  E

Schiessberg​

Saxony-Anhalt

The Schießberg is a nature reserve in the town of Arnstein in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .

The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0161 is 10.3  hectares in size. Part of the nature reserve is part of the FFH area "Dry slopes in the Wippertal near Sandersleben". The area has been under protection since the end of 1995 (date of regulation: November 2, 1995). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Mansfeld-Südharz.

The nature reserve is located between the Arnstein districts of Sandersleben (Anhalt) and Wiederstedt in a small side valley of the Wipper . It puts a mosaic of valuable habitats in the middle of the intensively used agricultural landscape of the northeastern Harz foreland under protection. In the southern area of ​​the nature reserve on the southern slope of the Rüsterberg rocky fields, dry and semi-dry grasslands have developed. German fringed gentian , spring adonis and orchids such as the stately orchid grow here . On the southern edge of the protected area there are meadow orchards with dry grass as an undergrowth, which is followed by dense wood from sea ​​buckthorn , sloe and rose species . Approximately in the middle of the nature reserve there is an abandoned limestone quarry in which the layers of the Lower Muschelkalk are exposed . The quarry is partially full of water. Along a trench crossing the nature reserve, a rest of alluvial forest made up of poplars , willows , bird cherries and a layer of bushes rich in species has been preserved. In the north-western part of the nature reserve, the rest of the alluvial forest is adjoined by a wood made of common ash , willow, black elder , hawthorn , common hazel , oak , norway maple and field elm .

The nature reserve is the habitat of numerous species of birds , including red-backed killer , nightingale , various warbler species , dunnock , song thrush , wryneck and puffy tit . Various amphibians live in the former quarry , including the common frog , common toad and pond newt . The still water in the quarry is also home to a significant occurrence of the threatened mildew . A former tunnel in the quarry serves as a quarter for the bat species broad-winged bat , water bat , pipistrelle and brown long-eared bat .

The nature reserve is surrounded by agricultural land . In the south it borders on Landesstraße 152.

Web links

• Schießberg , State Administration Office Saxony-Anhalt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kuckenburg quarry (Sandersleben) , Mansfeld copper traces. Retrieved May 16, 2019.