Swabian Donaumoos

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The Swabian Donaumoos is the largest contiguous wetland in southern Germany , which was created in the post- Pleistocene period by the Danube in the river landscape “Naturraum Donauried ” between Neu-Ulm and Donauwörth . The Swabian Donaumoos is the western part of the Donauried, the area between Riedheim to Gundelfingen , today's Danube Canal and the Swabian Alb . This part is a hydrogeological peculiarity because the huge amounts of karst water flowing to the Danube valley in the south-eastern Swabian Alb have created a very large Danube gravel groundwater reservoir and a wetland, partly a moor , was created.

Only a small part of the original wetland could be saved from total reclamation . FFH protection and the Ramsar Convention also classify the part as internationally significant. Only three nature reserves can be redeveloped as the remains of a vertible fen. They are (lower drainage) against the interests of agriculture and the administration union state water supply Baden-Wuerttemberg (LW) (less eutrophication ) and moor typical species-rich refuge for also endangered fauna and flora maintained and rewetted be.

geography

The term “Swabian Donaumoos” only refers to the “special” western part of the Donauried as far as Sontheim an der Brenz / Gundelfingen an der Donau .

The wetland "Danube River Valley: Langenau -Sontheim-Gundelfingen- Riedheim (Leipheim) ", approx. 7.5 × 15 km, is bounded in the north by the south-eastern Swabian Alb and in the south by the alluvial forests (approx. 1500 m) here channeled Danube (only approx. 70 m). Langenau, Rammingen , Asselfingen (all Alb-Donau district ), Niederstotzingen and Sontheim (both districts of Heidenheim ) are located on the northern edge of the broad river valley level . Elchingen , Riedheim , Leipheim , Günzburg , Offingen , Gundremmingen , Gundelfingen are located on the southern edge of the river valley level . All southern places belong to the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . The political demarcation between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria is only relevant for the administration and development of the natural area.

Economic geography

Danube loop Ulm-Lauingen, 4 sheets, topograph. Atlas 1832–1837

The open and wide reed area itself is sparsely populated. The (agricultural) economic potential of the reed was recognized and used successively. In 1837 the first, smaller sections of the heavily meandering Danube between Ulm and Lauingen were straightened. In 1871 the straightening was completed as far as Passau. Four barrages were built between 1959 and 1965 . Gradually, areas of the natural area became extensive , i.e. H. Due to frequent weather and location-related yield losses, only used for hatching , as straw mowing or hay meadow . Therefore an attempt was made to lower the groundwater level by drawing drainage ditches . The increased bed erosion after the Danube correction made clearing easier. The intensification of agriculture through arable farming followed after industrialization because of the increasing population and later because of the hardship after the world wars.

In the Bavarian part of the wetland in particular, the building boom in the 1960s and 1970s saw the settlement and commercial areas expand considerably in the peripheral zones. The economic extraction of gravel and sand as coveted raw materials for the construction industry and road construction also rose by leaps and bounds. Numerous water-filled gravel pits and artificial lakes were created. The peat in fens , 1900 in Baden-Württemberg partly machine-supported , was abandoned after the Second World War.

Since 1917 the " Landeswasserversorgung BW" (LW) has been drawing water for drinking water from the reed. Since the state treaty of 1970/1992 between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, the association also has the water right to divert Danube water at Günzburg.

Since about 1990 the financial means for a regression of the fens have been increasing. This is of increasing, if only limited, economic importance.

geology

The part of the Swabian Alb, which borders the northern edge of the Danube valley, is shaped like the whole Alb by layered or massive limestones of the White Jura . The Alb table, like the whole of the south-west German stratified landscape , falls largely evenly by 1 to 1.7% from south-south-east to south-east. On parts of the Alb table south of the Lone , erosion sediments from the Alps were still deposited . The rocks that have been removed and re-sedimented since the formation of the Alps (main phase since the Lower Miocene ) are still present here like islands. Even in the valley cleared by the meltwater masses of the cold ages, these molasse sediments growing in a wedge shape to the south are still preserved.

The fluvial dynamics of the Danube has shaped the river landscape , that is, the surface layers and the uppermost rock formations , since the late Pleistocene , especially in periglacial times . Above all, processes of erosion , weathering and tectonics over the past 50,000 years have had an effect. With the subsidence of the meltwater masses , the enormous debris loads of the southern tributaries and the other landed sedimentations also subsided . Gravels and sands were "a continuous, sometimes only a few centimeters thick, remaining clay - and clay " covers. These, mostly impermeable , surface layers ultimately enabled the creation of an extensive fens. Until about 200 years ago, this river landscape remained essentially a wet biotope , in the core area a fen and the Danube meandered - its loops changing several times. The morphology , the sediments and the groundwater gravel body remained untouched by humans.

Wilhelm Schloz (State Office for Geology, Spatial Planning and Soil) published the "Drawing of a geological north-south section Asselfingen-Donau-Günzburg" in 1979 , which is based on a series of boreholes . As a result, high groundwater levels caused by sufficient karst water inflows in the Preboreal to the late Atlantic, the compaction of very slowly microbial- organic plant degradation (peat formation). In the lower-lying, drain-free depressions , fens islands still exist today despite the anthropogenic moat systems.

The findings of W. Schloz, the geological structure of the rock layers under the Holocene cover ( silt , clay, lime mudde , moor , meadow limestone, bog soil ), shows the geological profile in the revised graphic.

At the southern edge of the Danube Valley, the Weißjura has already submerged around 150 m.

Hydrogeology

Hydrogeological profile of the Swabian Donaumoss. Layers , Karst - and river gravel - Aquifer
Swabian Donaumoos in the Pleistocene river valley: karst water of the Alb, wetlands, low moor

The entire approximately 55 km long post-Pleistocene wetland of the Danube plain between Langenau and Donauwörth is defined as an independent "Donauried natural area" (Ried = moor).

The Swabian Donaumoos, the approximately 7.5 × 15 km western part of the Donauried as far as Sontheim / Gundelfingen, still has the special character of wet soils and extremely abundant groundwater reserves, despite the creation and expansion of a drainage system . Until around 1800, the river and the layers immediately below it shaped the landscape as a veritable “ flow-through moor ” with corresponding fauna and flora. “It was only at the beginning of the industrial age with increasing population density and increased energy demand ” that people began to change the landscape.

Karst aquifer

The abundance of water results from the karst groundwater of the "deep karst" part of the eastern Swabian Alb. The rainwater that accumulates in these alpine areas in the summer months seeps away and flows slowly to the southeast. The small river Lone is a striking example of the extreme karst seepage . This drainage line ("Heilbronner- und Tübinger Lone"), which already existed in the Lower Miocene and was very important at the time, is now only a small, 36 km long stream restricted to the Alb. The lone water, including the catchment areas of the few side valleys (all dry valleys ), seeps away completely in most years.

The only significant direct rise of the karst groundwater to the earth's surface south of the Lone is today the karst springs in Langenau on the edge of the Pleistocene Danube valley - the southern edge of the Swabian Alb. The large deposits of several karst springs are largely independent of normal precipitation events. The remaining karst water runoff rises underground into the wide river valley.

The water of the Weißjura Karst aquifer is not allowed to cross directly into the main receiving waters of the Danube, as the old meandering and now canalised river runs along the southern edge of the valley. The low to impermeable molasse layers under the valley floor are also blocking. Instead, the karst groundwater penetrates “laterally” and ascending into the well-permeable “gravel aquifer ” aquifer. In the molasse sediments, which become thicker towards the south, less and less karst water penetrates upwards. If karst groundwater is not taken from the LW for drinking water nowadays, it flows indirectly into the Danube via springs, drainage ditches, streams, the Nau and Brenz rivers.

The Nau and its karst springs

Karst spring pot spoon fountain, Langenau basin, Danube valley
Karst spring pot of the Nau spring , Langenau basin

In the northwestern tip of the broad Danube river bed, the bay of the so-called "Langenau Basin," in which the city of Langenau developed, the karst water from four large and several small karst springs comes to the surface, because the karst water level here corresponds to the Alb exactly the "receiving water" level of the old Danube; Molasse sediments are not present here. The 26 km long Nau river meandering on the western edge of the fen is a drainage channel for the Langenau karst springs. The wet meadows in Baden-Württemberg and the central low moor, on the other hand, only interact with the Nau during floods . However, due to the lowering of the groundwater after the Danube was straightened , floods have subsided. Only after the water law approval for the construction and commissioning (2006–2011) of a Nau water pipeline into the nature-protected fen areas for the purpose of rewetting does an exchange exist again. After a stretch of parallel running through the Holocene Danube-Waldaue, the Nau flows into today's Danube west of Günzburg.

River gravel aquifer

The sub-Miocene and Quaternary sands and gravels of the entire valley profile are filled up by the karst waters of the Swabian Alb to form a very rich groundwater aquifer; the outflow, however, is delayed. The thickness of the marl and limestone marl layers of the White Jurassic (up to 150 m), which are barely or not at all permeable, and the very powerful karst water-bearing layers (up to 230 m) below, together with the wedge-shaped molasse layers that become thicker towards the south, form up to 7.5 km wide Danube valley has a very irregular geological north-south profile . Since the construction of the barrages (1959–1965), the groundwater of the Swabian Donaumoos has only had an insignificant exchange with the river.

Perforation: ceiling / molasses

Natural monument, geotope "Karst spring pot Grimmensee"

Although the wedge-shaped molasses (calcareous USM), which become thicker towards the south, forms an increasingly effective hydraulic separating layer to the karst aquifer, there are also "weak points" in the molasses, especially along faults , that are vertically permeable to water. W. Schloz, State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining BW (LGRB) even calls so-called “top layer windows” through which the karst water of the deeply sinking White Jurassic formation pushes to the surface. The karst spring pot "Grimmensee Natural Monument", 454 m above sea level. NN in the northern, damp to swampy areas of the Baden-Württemberg part of the Danube, is probably a relic of earlier numerous breaks in the Molasse. Such breaks are actually " artesian sources ", because the, u. a. clayey-loamy and more or less impermeable, cover layers are up to 3 m lower than the current karst water level of the Alb in this section; there is therefore a “ confined aquifer ”.

climate

Due to its location in the rain shadow of the Swabian Alb, the Swabian Donaumoos is one of the areas with the lowest rainfall in the foothills of the Alps. In the wide basin landscape of the river valley there is an accumulation of cold air lakes ; there is a year-round risk of ground frost (see also the ARGE in the web links in this regard).

Destruction of natural space through human intervention

Up until the beginning of the 19th century, the predominantly wet areas of the Swabian Donaumoos could only be used for extensive agricultural activities. The nature of the veritable fens remained completely untangled. The periodic floods or persistent rainfall made supposedly dry areas in the Danube Plain completely unsuitable for arable farming and only conditionally suitable as pastureland . The straightening of the Danube, which until then had been shaped by numerous bends in the river , allowed the water to flow away more quickly, but lowered the river bed and thus the water table. Floods in the valley became less frequent. Together with the creation of drainage ditches, it was possible to make areas more suitable for arable farming.

Further, extensive ditching from 1822 onwards resulted in a considerable further lowering of the groundwater level in the valley. In dry years (e.g. as early as 1842) unfavorable physical conditions and the falling groundwater level led to real drought disasters with crop failure, soil drifts and dry cracks. In wet years, arable land became too wet and crops were lost.

The Baden-Württemberg “Water and Soil Association Donauried”, Langenau, undertook “a general renovation of the ditch system” at the end of the 1960s. As a result of this rigorous drainage , the water table sank even lower. Some trenches have been dug deep into the Quaternary river gravel aquifer. The expansion of the state border trench had an "extremely negative" effect on the water balance of the Riedtorfe. The two partial areas of the "Langenauer Ried" nature reserve established in 1966 became "islands in an extensive arable landscape." It was only through the extension of the nature reserve "with a number of valuable remaining moorland areas and two exclaves on pending meadow limestone" in 1981 that the water balance could at least be stabilized.

"At the end of the 20th century, more than 60 percent of arable land and the proportion of grassland fell to 35 percent". " Land consolidation and intensive arable farming have degraded and reduced the natural species potential down to an everyday spectrum ."

Since intensively cultivated areas could be made more productive with natural fertilizers ( manure and slurry ) or with chemicals , every conversion of grassland into arable land led to higher pollution with nitrates ( eutrophication , serious in the production of drinking water).

The interests in "other economic use" of the Swabian Donaumoos have admittedly placed an additional burden on the groundwater level; But peat and gravel mining are no longer very relevant as resources are limited.

  • Peat mining began around 1790, but was stopped entirely in the 1960s. However, it led to peat subsidence, dry cracks and incipient mineralization .

Since 1917 the Zweckverband LW, which owns a large part of the Langenauer Ried nature reserve and future expansion areas, has been drawing off the large water supplies in the Ried for one of BW's most important long-distance pipeline systems . A maximum of 40 million cubic meters of groundwater are currently pumped up annually from numerous twelve-meter-deep wells , each grouped into six “water wells” , processed into drinking water in a waterworks east of Langenau and transported to the Stuttgart area. In addition, in 1970 through the State Treaty of Baden-Württemberg-Bavaria , the LW acquired the water rights to draw a specified proportion of water directly from the Danube river to obtain drinking water for BW. “In the longer term, the association intends to extend groundwater extraction to deep wells, but the possible effects are to be examined in an environmental impact study. According to current knowledge, it cannot be ruled out that this will damage the central moor further. "

Remaining habitats

Bird migration in Sophienried (Donaukies-Baggerseen east of NSG "Gundelfinger Donaumoos")

Due to the abundance of water, the Swabian Donaumoos is still a refuge for rarities of the fauna and flora of a wetland outside the protected areas. In addition, the shallow water zones offer an ideal resting place for migratory birds, especially in spring and autumn. During this time, large numbers of great egrets and wild geese can often be found there, cavorting in the fields near the waters. In addition to rarities such as lapwing and curlews , the presence of a pair of cranes is an absolute specialty . The wetland is also an important supplier of food for the white storks that have settled in Bächingen and Gundelfingen.

Bird observation towers and an observation hut were built at three gravel dredging lakes and the “Faiminger Donau-Stausee”. Other locations are also suitable for nature and bird watching (see also the ARGE in the web links in this regard).

Saving the remaining fens from destruction

NSG Leipheimer Moos, sedges, rewetted area
NSG Leipheimer Moos, flora typical of bog: cotton grass between sedge grasses

The interventions in the natural area of ​​the Swabian Donaumoos, which began 200 years ago, assumed such frightening proportions that economic bodies, initiatives, state institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were prepared to balance conflicting interests, even if they gave up rights or material advantages were. The primary goal was now: “The largest possible development and maintenance of an open, ecologically intact reed landscape with agriculture compatible with nature conservation.” The Bavarian government of Swabia designated the Gundelfinger Moos as NSG in 1983, and the Leipheimer Moos in 1992.

Of the entire fen, which had developed since the post-Würm Ice Age, today only areas can be redeveloped into a veritable fen if, like the NSG'e Langenauer Ried (BW), Leipheimer Moos and Gundelfinger Moos (both Bay ) are protected. These areas are also protected by the important international regulations NATURA 2000 and the Ramsar Convention . This means that 10% of the original wetland as typical wetland habitats and habitats as species-rich Refugialraum for fauna and flora rückentwickelbar . Threatened species (“ Red List of Endangered Species ”) also live in these areas or have returned to them after various development measures. Targeted species relief measures will be continued. The core area (the NSG'e) is to be gradually expanded. Transitions to extensive, nonetheless sustainable management , such as B. by the return of arable land in grassland are initiated. (See also in this regard the ARGE in the web links).

Raising the groundwater level

The most important project is undoubtedly to turn the sinking water table into a rising one. Having established, is that the expansion of the central drainage ditch "country Grenzgraben" had extremely negative impact on the water balance of the remaining Riedtorfe, then three new were dams built. Weirs were also installed in the culture ditch in the 1990s to optimize the areal water distribution. The first rewetting of the Bavarian NSG Leipheimer Donaumoos started in 2006 with the construction of a 3.7 km long underground freshwater pipe, so that from 2011 NSG areas can be supplied with up to 90 l / s of water as required (see also in this regard the ARGE in the web links). The application for the installation of five more weirs is in preparation for a second waterlogging module “permanent congestion at the border ditch”; an application for the opposing nature reserves of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria may be submitted jointly. As a result, the gravel mining and quarrying ponds intervene so strongly in the water balance of the wetlands that negotiations are being held to partially fill lakes and ensure that new gravel mining methods are no longer approved. With the waterlogging and runoff regime , it has already been possible to bring the groundwater- floor distance to 30 cm on parts of the areas of the Leipheimer Moos .

Revitalization of other typical properties of the moors

Snipe populations like to return to the rewetted Swabian Donaumoos

"Presumably, the effects of storing the water in the peat body and in the root area are even more extensive, and in the medium and long term there will be a change in the vegetation communities towards those typical of low- peat bogs ."

Initiatives in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria have been dedicated to this for more than 25 years

  • the optimization of agriculture, the production of drinking water, the upgrading of the status of nature conservation, equivalence and sustainability through legal measures, optimization and political and social upgrading
  • the endeavor to awaken the understanding of nature for the use of grassland for different times.
  • the maintenance and expansion of three nature reserves.

Persistent, cooperative work, transnational, with many, u. a. Local institutions and working groups, as well as the framework agreements with the two farmers' associations to regulate compensation and land sales, should ensure sustainable success.

Good examples of the return of a near-natural fens offering habitat are when

  • Grove successions can be pushed back and visitors can be directed onto paved paths.
    • The populations of typical meadow breeders such as common snipe and curlew (Numenius arquata) have been in decline in Germany since 1990. In the rewetted meadows of the nature reserves, the common snipe finds the widely open areas with many shallow water areas, which it primarily needs for foraging. The large sedge is also spreading again, in whose clump-like bulbs the snipe likes to breed. "The number of breeding pairs of snipes has been increasing steadily in the Swabian Donaumoos as a result of extensive debushing and rewetting since the mid-1990s - from 12 BP in 1993 to 47 (2016)!" Water levels in these sub-areas. ”After rewetting, open areas are regularly used as resting places by small troops of the curlew (on September 27, 2012 14 curlews looking for food with a photo.) But breeding success“ is usually no longer sufficient today, to keep the populations alive. "
Boardwalk through the Leipheimer Moos NSG

Since 2009, visitors have been able to walk on sensitively guided plank paths from the village of Leipheim to the nature reserve of the same name and thus gain impressive insights into the valuable habitats of the wetlands and moors without having to enter the nature reserves directly and the rare animal and plant species being disturbed.

For more than 25 years, the working group Schwäbisches Donaumoos eV , the AG Donaumoos Langenau eV, have played a decisive role in the diverse nature conservation measures . and the State Association for Bird Protection Bavaria . In 2000, an information and educational center, a museum about the habitats of the Swabian Danube Valley, the “mooseum Forum Swabian Danube Valley” , was opened in Bächingen .

See also

Donauried (bird sanctuary)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The term Donauried is used for the entire, originally fluvial- moist, river - valley level of the Upper Danube from east of Ulm to Donauwörth .
  2. ↑ The Danube between Riedlingen and Passau was mostly straightened from 1806 to 1871.
  3. ↑ a b c Landscape Ecology 1993, p. 11
  4. ↑ Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 96
  5. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 42
  6. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 41
  7. ↑ Landscape Ecology 1993, p. 9
  8. ↑ a b LGRB Schloz, 1979
  9. ↑ BMBF-Fo final report, 2004, p. 33
  10. ↑ The "Naturraum Donauried" is z. B. used by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) as a planning basis for the European Natura 2000 protected area system. BfN source: see web links
  11. ↑ Landscape Ecology 1993, p. 10
  12. ↑ Nellingen - Böhmenkirch to Beimerstetten -Sontheim, approx. 340 km²
  13. ↑ Höll Porenraum, 2007, p. 31
  14. ↑ Strasser Ur-Lone, 2005, p. 3
  15. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 50
  16. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 59
  17. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 49
  18. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 54f
  19. ↑ Donauried LW, 1997, p. 57
  20. ^ City rights 1301, cf. Settlement history on the website of the city of Langenau
  21. ↑ ARGE annual report, 2015, p. 3
  22. ↑ Landscape Ecology 1993, p. 22
  23. ↑ Höll Porenraum, 2007, p. 33
  24. ↑ a b NSG 4.035, 2015
  25. ^ LGRB Günzburg 1996
  26. ^ LGRB Schloz, 1979, p. 8
  27. ↑ Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 94
  28. ^ In Bavaria since 1921, Gundelfinger Moos, 2003, p. 64
  29. ↑ Landscape Ecology 1993, p. 13
  30. ↑ LGRB Schloz, 1979, p. 9; BMBF-Fo final report, p. 40
  31. ↑ a b c d Höll Porenraum, 2007, p. 36
  32. ^ NSG 4.035, 2015, Atlas text
  33. ↑ BMBF-Fo final report, 2004, p. 40
  34. ↑ Landscape Ecology 1993, p. 14
  35. ↑ "Many meadows in Bavaria are heavily fertilized with liquid manure by Baden-Württemberg farms that are not allowed to be spread in the neighboring Baden-Württemberg water protection area ." "The current Bavarian NSG regulation does not see any restrictions here in accordance with the exemption for proper agricultural use (Section 5 of the Protected Areas Ordinance). ”(Status 2003), Gundelfinger Moos, 2003, p. 76
  36. ↑ Pollutants from settlement , agriculture and traffic in the Swabian Alb, which is characterized by karst water, are added, Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 109, Donauried, LW 1997 p. 52
  37. ↑ In Bavaria only ever in manual mode. Already abandoned commercially in 1925 and completely discontinued in the 1960s.
  38. ↑ BMBF-Fo final report, p. 39
  39. ↑ Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 96
  40. ↑ Höll Porenraum, 2007, p. 37
  41. ↑ Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 64, p. 76
  42. ↑ a b Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 115
  43. ↑ "With the exception of the two karst wells, all wells in the very rich gravel aquifer (high terrace and lower terrace) are filtered." BMBF-Fo final report, 2004, p. 35
  44. ↑ Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 110
  45. ^ Government of Swabia: nature reserves. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  46. ↑ Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 111
  47. ↑ ARGE annual report, 2015, p. 27
  48. ↑ ARGE annual report, 2015, p. 30
  49. ↑ a b Leipheimer Moos, 2003, p. 112
  50. ↑ a b MaP 2015, p. 48
  51. ^ ARGE Swabian Donaumoos: Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago). In: ARGE Schwäbisches Donaumoos: Birds. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  52. ↑ GeschB ARGE 2015 p. 88
  53. ↑ See the weblinks

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