Solling-Vogler Nature Park

Location of the Solling-Vogler Nature Park

The Solling-Vogler Nature Park is a 52,000 hectare large nature park in the south of Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

The nature park is located east of the Weser Valley and includes in particular the Solling , the second largest forest area in Lower Saxony. In addition, the Vogler and the Burgberg ridge between these two low mountain ranges are part of the nature park.

Great Everstein (Burgberg mountain range) covered in fog; this weather situation occurs only in spring, autumn and early summer with temperatures around 4–15 degrees Celsius and sufficient humidity (rain, evaporating dew)

It was founded in 1966 and is looked after by the “Zweckverband Naturpark Solling-Vogler”, whose sponsors are the districts of Holzminden and Northeim and the state of Lower Saxony.

geography

Ilme in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park along the L548 near the junction towards Abbecke

The Solling-Vogler Nature Park is located northwest of the city of Göttingen in the two aforementioned districts between the rivers Weser in the west and Leine in the east. It is located between the villages of Bodenwerder in the north, Stadtoldendorf and Dassel in the northeast, Moringen in the east, Hardegsen and Uslar in the southeast, Bad Karlshafen in the south, Beverungen in the southwest, Höxter in the west and Holzminden in the northwest.

The nature park lies between its neighbors Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln Nature Park in the north, Münden Nature Park in the south, Harz National Park in the east and the Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge Nature Park in the west.

The red sandstone dome of the Solling (up to 528 m above sea level ) has the shape of a high plateau with mixed forests, wet meadows and moors. The Vogler (460 m) is also a sandstone mountain range, but with many mountains and valleys with steep rock faces. The Solling is also characterized by its humid climate, which has contributed to the formation of raised bogs .

Flora and fauna

Beech and spruce stands cover more than 80 percent of the nature park area. A pronounced herbaceous layer is only present in the deciduous forest zones. Old oaks have been preserved in some locations , including the oak wood forests near Lauenberg , which are designated as a nature reserve . In places there are also rare plants such as sundew , striped fern and rare species of orchids.

Wild violet

A total of 937 species of fern and seed plants are recorded in the Solling , of which 261 are on the Red List of Endangered Species . There are also 296 mosses , of which 87 are endangered, and 123 lichens , of which 49 are endangered. On shady areas, the whitish grove and the wood sorrel are typical plants to be found in the herb layer, on well-lit areas, however, the wire-smear .

The be chased game population consists location typically composed of the ungulates, here essentially consisting of deer , wild boar and deer , occasionally fallow deer and the predators, consisting here, lynx , fox , raccoon , Badger , Marder , weasels and ferret . Among the breeding birds of the Solling include tree pipit , wren , Dunnock , Willow Warbler , Chiffchaff , Goldcrest , Firecrest , robin , song thrush , blackbird , great tit , coal tit , nuthatch , chaffinch and Star .

Black darter in the Mecklenbruch

Rarely are birds at the top of the food chain such as owls or birds of prey, species that have specialized, such as the cuckoo , and species whose habitat only occurs in small areas in the Solling, such as pond claw , field owl , swamp warbler or reed bunting . In the summer months, migrants such as the mountain finch , buzzard , merlin , wood sandpiper , yellow wagtail , ring owl and skylark are added.

Most birds use arthropods as a source of food. The species diversity of the arthropods is particularly high in the edge of the forest , i.e. in the narrow transition zones to the Solling foreland as well as on back lanes and other roadsides. There are poplar hawkmoth , tethea or , clouded border , common wave , Winter Moth , clostera curtula , Poplar notodontidae , Common Quaker and beech Streckfuß to the seasonal at least at Sal-willow and aspen often observable conspicuous ways. Canopy spiders can be found here both in meadows and in higher forest locations with a montane character. There are also numerous species of short-winged birds and some butterflies , and dragonflies in damp places .

Mecklenbruch moor near Silberborn in Solling

The entire nature park is designated as a landscape protection area and mostly also as a water protection area . Partial areas of this nature park enjoy the additional protection status of an EU bird sanctuary . The designated areas are the habitat of the middle woodpecker , rough-owl , black stork and other bird species worthy of protection.

The following areas are protected in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park: Ahlewiesen , Eichenhudewälder near Lauenberg , Friedrichshäuser Bruch , Graupenburg , Kleines Bruch and Düsteres Bruch , moors and forests in Hochsolling, Hellental , southern Burgberg slopes , vineyards near Holenberg and vineyards near Rühle .

The sample areas of the Solling project , one of the most comprehensive studies of ecosystem research in Central Europe, are located in the nature park . As a result, the ecology of the forests is particularly well researched.

Attractions

A medieval house was built in Nienover . In the nearby Reiherbachtal, the historic use of the Solling as forest pasture was restored using Exmoor ponies and Heck cattle as part of the Solling-Vogler Hutewald project . At Silberborn a herd of the endangered red high cattle is kept for landscape maintenance. The Hochsollingturm stands between Silberborn and Neuhaus . The nature reserve Hochmoor Mecklenbruch near Silberborn and the wildlife park Neuhaus with forest museum near Neuhaus are in the immediate vicinity of the tower .

The Weser Cycle Path runs along the Weser to the west of the nature park, as does the German Fairy Tale Route , German Half-timbered Route and the Route of the Weser Renaissance . The European cycle path R1 (= D-Route 3) runs in the valley between Solling and Vogler . Numerous circular and themed hiking trails lead through the nature park, including the Loccum – Volkenroda pilgrimage route .

traffic

Forest roads in Solling

The southern and northwestern periphery of the nature park are accessible by rail with the Altenbeken – Kreiensen , Göttingen – Bodenfelde and Solling Railway connections. The federal highways 64 and 241 also run here . In the center of the nature park, the Hoch solling , the B 497 directs the north-south traffic and the state road 549 the east-west traffic. The bus routes are organized in the VSN . The entire forest area is criss-crossed by forest roads, which are reserved for forestry vehicles and hunting tenants and which are groomed to cross-country ski trails in winter, for example at the Großer Blöse , and which form the network of cycle paths in the Solling-Vogler mountain bike region in the other seasons .

literature

• Ordinance in the district of Holzminden (PDF; 25 kB)
• Ordinance of Northeim District (PDF; 22 kB)
• Birgit Czyppull, Heike Molthan, Dirk Reuter: Landscape guide Naturpark Solling-Vogler. 1996, ISBN 3-86134-293-6 .
• Jürgen Borris, Birgit Czyppull: Where the rough-footed owl calls: the mysterious life of animals in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park. 1999, ISBN 3-931656-21-7 .
• Land survey office of Lower Saxony: Solling-Vogler Nature Park. Topographische Karten Niedersachsen series, hiking map, sheet WL7, 1995, ISBN 3-89435-618-9 .
• Land survey office of Lower Saxony: Solling and surroundings, cycling map. Sheet RC26, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89435-652-1 .

See also

• List of nature parks in Germany

Web links

Commons : Solling-Vogler Nature Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Solling-Vogler Nature Park
• Neuhaus wildlife park (with forest museum)
• Solling-Vogler-Region - Holiday Region in the Weserbergland Website of the Solling-Vogler-Region im Weserbergland eV association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Forest societies ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Niedersächsische Forstliche Versuchsanstalt, Niedersächsisches Forstplanungsamt: Indicators of sustainable forestry, report on the German sub-project. 2002, p. 96.
3. ↑ Martin Weckesser: The ground vegetation of mixed beech and spruce stands in Solling - structure, diversity and material balance. 2003, p. 116.
4. ↑ Erwin R. Scherner: Bird and environment in the Solling. In: Faunistic messages from southern Lower Saxony. 3/1980, pp. 170f.
5. ↑ Matthias Damm: Faunistic recording of phytophagous insects on selected outer and inner forest edges of the Solling with special consideration of the macrolepidoptera and forest edge structures. Cuvillier-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-89873-826-4 , p. 52f.
6. ↑ Reinhard Albert: Investigations on the structure and dynamics of spider communities of different types of vegetation. 1982, p. 131.
7. ↑ Alexander Sührig: Rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) and harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in mixed stands of spruce and beech in comparison to spruce and pure beech stands - a study in Solling. 2004, p. 147.
8. ↑ Model nature conservation project
9. ↑ Maintaining the hat landscape and protecting species with large grazing animals in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park
10. ↑ Landscape maintenance with Red Höhenvieh
11. ↑ Course of the R1 cycle path between Solling and Vogler
12. ↑ Hiking in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.