Speller can

Speller can IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
View from the observation tower
location	Northeast of Spelle , west of Hopsten
surface	56 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 146
WDPA ID	82608
Geographical location	52 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '58 "  N , 7 ° 30' 2"  E
Sea level	from 34 m to 39 m
Setup date	11/26/1983
administration	NLWKN

The Speller Dose is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipality of Spelle in the combined municipality of Spelle in the Emsland district .

The nature reserve with the registration number NSG WE 146 is 56  hectares in size. It has been under nature protection since November 26, 1983. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Emsland.

The nature reserve is located northeast of Spelle and places the rest of a raised bog area under protection, the development of which probably began in two sand hollows in the Atlantic .

The moor has been changed by drainage and manual peat digging . Large parts of the moor, which is to be renatured by rewetting , is overgrown with birch trees. In addition, there are also typical moorland plants such as cotton grass and peat moss and Bult-Schlenken complexes . In some cases, attempts are being made to push back the birch trees with decussing measures in order to support the regeneration of the moor.

An approximately 100-meter-long educational moor trail in the form of a wooden walkway with a six-meter-high observation tower leads into the nature reserve .

The area is drained via ditches leading to the Giegel Aa and the Großer Aa leading to the Ems .

Web links

Commons : Speller Dose  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} nature reserve "Speller Dose" , website of the Samtgemeinde Spelle (accessed on May 30, 2011)