Firing range heather
The Schießplatzheide is one of the heather areas near the Lech , the Lechtalheiden . It is part of the nature reserve Stadtwald Augsburg .
Emergence
Natural Lechheiden arose on gravel banks that were piled up by the Lech or, secondarily, from grazed snow heather - pine forests on the ice-age alluvial gravel of the Lech and the Lech glacier .
The development on the Schießplatzheide was completely different: The former forest area was cleared in 1880 to create a shooting range . Rare alpine, continental and sub-Mediterranean animal and plant species were able to settle on the now free area. Due to the military use initially as a parade ground , the area was kept free again and again. After the Second World War, the shooting range was used by American troops for target practice. The shooting range has not been used for military purposes since around 1980 and is now a "case for nature conservation".
Heathland
The calcareous gravel masses pushed up during the Ice Age quickly drain rainwater into the subsoil. The typical character of a calcareous dry lawn results from this fact . The thickness of these gravel heaps can be several meters in the affected area. In the areas of the Lechheiden they are covered by a thin and fault-prone layer of humus. This is hardly higher than 10 cm. This contains the seeds of the species-rich flora.
Plants from southern Mediterranean or eastern European regions can be found here as floating debris or blown in by winds. This is why rivers are also called Florenbrücke . The Lech is the only alpine river that connects the Alps and the Alb almost by the shortest route. Its special position as a plant bridge becomes clear if one looks at the distribution area of species such as sticky flax ( Linum viscosum ) in Bavaria 's distribution atlas .
The heather areas of the Lech are among the most species-rich Central European habitats. The shooting range heath , along with the Lechfeld military training area , the Kissinger Heide , the Königsbrunner Heide and the Hurlacher Heide, is one of the largest and most important Lechheides. The flowering meadow areas are home to an endangered butterfly fauna.
The area extends at a height of 502 m above sea level. NHN up to 509 m above sea level NHN .
plants
Rare albino form of the bumblebee ragwort
Plant list (reduced to concise types)
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Web links
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Map of the German Empire, 1: 100,000, part IV / IV: p. 623: Augsburg, 1918
- Matching excerpt from it online (accessed January 15, 2018)
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 1.9 ″ E