Schmiechener See

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Schmiechener See nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

View over part of the lake (2008)

View over part of the lake (2008)

location Schelklingen and Allmendingen , Alb-Danube district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany ,
surface 50.6 ha
Identifier 4,072
WDPA ID 82534
Geographical location 48 ° 21 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '2 "  N , 9 ° 44' 5"  E
Schmiechener See (Baden-Württemberg)
Schmiechener See
Setup date December 21, 1973
administration Regional Council Stuttgart

The Schmiechener Lake is a nature and bird sanctuary in the Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg , Germany . The Flachwassersee , located south-east of the Schmiechen district of Schelklingen , covers an area of ​​up to 50 hectares with a water depth of no more than 2 meters during floods; in dry years it can dry out except for a few damp spots. The Schmiechener See has no drain, its only tributary is the Siegenbach. The area lies on a clay layer up to 35 meters thick in a meander of the Ice Age Urdonautal .

The mosaic of perennial and periodic water holes makes the nature reserve a species-rich habitat. It is an important wetland area and, as the European bird sanctuary DE-7624-402 Schmiechener See, belongs to the Natura 2000 network .

The Schmiechener See is dominated by Groß Seggenriedern . Cattail reeds, gray willow bushes, water plume reeds and pond reeds are also available. Almost 200 species of birds have been counted in the area, 52 of them as breeding birds. The abundance of amphibians and insects is also remarkable, for example the occurrence of the spotted darter .

In older literature, the Schmiechener See is sometimes also called Schmiecher See, popularly it is simply called "d'r Sai".

Photo of the Schmiecher See before 1914 by Hans Lehmann

See also

literature

  • State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The Schmiechener See. Natural history of a nature reserve on the Swabian Alb. Part 1: Historical and natural history contributions. Supplements to the publications for nature conservation and landscape management in Baden-Württemberg, issue 78, Karlsruhe 1995, ISBN 3-88251-202-4 .
  • Lehmann, Hans: At Schmiecher See. In: Blätter des Schwäbischer Albverein vol. 22, 1910, columns 143-146.
  • Department for nature conservation and landscape management: nature reserves in the administrative district of Tübingen . Ed .: Regional Council Tübingen. Second revised and expanded edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-5175-5 , pp. 205-207 .

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