Swat Gatt

Schwatt Gatt nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
location	Vreden , district of Borken , NRW , Germany
surface	62 ha
Identifier	BOR-033
WDPA ID	82572
Natura 2000 ID	DE-3907-301
FFH area	62 ha
Geographical location	52 ° 5 '  N , 6 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 4 '59 "  N , 6 ° 51' 58"  E
Sea level	from 47 m to 49 m ( ø 48 m)
Setup date	1958
administration	Borken district

The Schwatte Gatt (High German: black hole ) is a nature conservation and FFH area near Vreden in the Münsterland district of Borken . It was designated as a nature reserve in 1958 and expanded to its current size of around 62 hectares in 1992 .

General

The core of the NSG Schwatt Gatt is a raised bog residue . This area consists mainly of wet heaths in which three still waters are embedded. Only the largest of these bodies of water still has a continuous, open water surface. It is dammed by a weir on the western edge. The water surface of the water is almost completely covered with the white water lily . The remaining waters are almost completely silted up.

A boardwalk leads directly through the moor.

The waters are surrounded by a commercial forest, which was planted about a hundred years ago and consists mainly of pine trees . In the past it has often been scoured from an economic point of view. Today the forest is very light and thus favors the gradual development into a pedunculate oak and birch forest . Old and fallen trees are left in the stand as long as they do not impair the use of the farm roads. These trees lying on the ground are very important for numerous organisms in the forest. Algae, mosses, lichen and ferns use the dead wood as a food source and feed the bound nutrients back into the biological cycle. Many wood-decomposing animals find an ideal habitat in the bark , bark and heartwood of fallen trees and then serve as food for woodpeckers , titmice and nuthatch themselves .

In 2011, a plank path was laid out that leads visitors past the water.

The Provincial Bush is located south of the Schwatten Gatt. In this forest area there is a predominance of pine trees, with which the heather-moor landscape was afforested from around 1910. The provincial bush is crossed by many drainage ditches.

fauna

The black woodpecker is the largest native woodpecker with a length of around 50 cm. He builds his nests in old and thick trees. In the following years these are often used by other cave dwellers such as stock pigeons or bats. The honey buzzard only eats insects. He digs up wasp nests including the honeycombs and feeds the protein-rich larvae to his young. In Schwatten Gatt Europe's smallest duck that lives teal . Numerous types of dragonflies are native to the Schwatten Gatt, e.g. B. the endangered late Adonis dragonfly .

In addition, the following animal species can be detected in the Schwatten Gatt:

• Moor frog
• Nordic moss damsel
• Reed Warbler

flora

Many plants typically found in moors or heaths grow in the Schwatten Gatt:

Sunrise in May 2017 at 13 ° C

• Tormentil
• Common heather
• Sand birch
• reed
• White water lily
• Beak sedge
• Millet sedge
• Narrow-leaved cotton grass
• Skewer peat moss
• Weißes Schnabelried
• Brown Schnabelried
• Multi-stemmed swamp rush
• Sphagnum magellanicum
• German turf rush
• Bulky rush
• Middle sundew
• Swamp Blood Eye

From early summer, the bell heather blooms in Schwatten Gatt.

tourism

Clearance in the provincial bush, south of the Schwatten Gatt ( map ).

The cycle paths of honeycombs 54 and 261 of the NRW cycle network lead directly past Schwatten Gatt . The themed route agri-cultura goes past the western edge of the Schwatten Gatt . The Flamingo Route leads through Lünten north of the Schwatten Gatt .

The paths in Schwatten Gatt are suitable for walkers and cyclists. However, the access roads to the Bohlenweg and the Bohlenweg itself are closed to bicycles. The reason for this is that reptiles and amphibians sunbathing on the plank path cannot perceive an approaching bicycle well and can therefore easily be run over.

South of Schwatten Gatt is the Antoniusheim with an attached cafe.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Borken district
• List of FFH areas in North Rhine-Westphalia

Web links

Commons : Schwetzt Gatt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Schwetzt Gatt" (BOR-033) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Natura 2000 area "Schwetzt Gatt (FFH area)" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Action map "Schwetzt Gatt" as part of the Natura 2000 network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elisabeth Piirainen u. Wilhelm Elling: Dictionary of the West Munsterland dialect , Vreden 1996. Published by the Heimatverein Vreden.
2. ↑ Website of the city of Vreden: On new paths through nature reserves in Gescher and Vreden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 30, 2015.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Technical article by nature conservation and landscape management for the districts of Borken, Coesfeld, Steinfurt, Warendorf and the city of Münster, Appendix 2 - Biotope network documents , Recklinghausen 2015, State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on August 30, 2016
4. ^ Website of agri-cultura: Adventure route agri-cultura , accessed on December 9, 2017.
5. ↑ Website of the Flamingo Route: Where water lilies and heather bloom , accessed on November 27, 2017.