Schnegaer Mühlenbachtal

	Schnegaer Mühlenbachtal IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	The Schnegaer Mühlenbach in the NSG near the Proitze water mill
location	West of Bergen an der Dumme , in the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony
surface	480 ha
Identifier	NSG LÜ 283
WDPA ID	389972
Geographical location	52 ° 53 ' N , 10 ° 53' E Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '29 " N , 10 ° 52' 58" E
Sea level	from 27 m to 56 m
Setup date	January 31, 2008
administration	NLWKN

The Schnegaer Mühlenbachtal is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxon communities of Bergen an der Dumme , Clenze and Schnega in the joint community of Lüchow (Wendland) in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG LÜ 283 is 480 hectares . Most of it is part of the FFH area “Landgraben und Dummeniederung”. A 28 hectare area in the east of the nature reserve between Kassau and Jiggel is also part of the EU bird sanctuary “Landgraben und Dummeniederung” and a 24 hectare area northwest of Bergen an der Dumme is part of the EU bird sanctuary “Drawehn”. In the east, the “Schnegaer Mühlenbachtal” nature reserve borders the “ Obere Dummeniederung ” nature reserve .

Sign near Schnega -Gledeberg

The nature reserve is located north and west of Bergen an der Dumme within the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park . It stretches from Molden to Jiggel and protects the Schnegaer Mühlenbach with its lowland and the narrow valley area and some tributaries. In Schnega and Wöhningen, the nature reserve is limited to the course of the stream and a narrow strip of banks.

The Schnegaer Mühlenbach is not developed as a near-natural body of water for long stretches. It has a predominantly gravelly-stony bottom with flooding water vegetation. The stream is accompanied in parts by natural deciduous forests , tall herbaceous meadows , reeds and sedges . Small bodies of water can be found in several places. There are six mill dams along the course of the stream , five of which are provided with a flood to ensure the continuity of the flowing water.

The lowland is characterized by differently used agricultural areas as well as forest areas and fallow land . The agricultural areas are mainly grassland used as meadows and pastures , but also arable land.

Above Schnega the valley area of the Schnegaer Mühlenbach widens to the Schnegaer Wiesenbruch. Here, moist to wet grassland and semi-natural deciduous and swamp forests are predominant in locations close to the groundwater. In the Wiesenbruch area there is a fish pond within the nature reserve.

There is an abandoned sand pit between Gledeberg and Schnega . Here sandy grassland is predominant.

The Schnegaer Mühlenbach with its tributaries and the lowlands are the habitat of numerous, sometimes endangered animals and plants. So come in the nature reserve u. a. Otter , great crested newt , brook lamprey , bitterling , river mussel and red kite , crane , red-backed shrike , barred warbler , yellow wagtail and whinchat ago.

The area has been a nature reserve since January 31, 2008. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Lüchow-Dannenberg district.

Web links

Nature reserve "Schnegaer Mühlenbachtal" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)