Spitzberg-Ödenburg

	Spitzberg-Ödenburg nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	South-eastern part of the NSG, in the center of the picture the Spitzberg mountain spur of the Spitzberg ridge
location	Tubingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
surface	9.9 ha
Identifier	4174
WDPA ID	165616
Geographical location	48 ° 30 ' N , 9 ° 1' E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '19 " N , 9 ° 1' 24" E
Sea level	from 350 m to 420 m
Setup date	October 22, 1990
administration	Regional Council Tübingen

Spitzberg-Ödenburg is a nature reserve (NSG number 4.174) near Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg . With an ordinance of October 22, 1990, the Tübingen Regional Council placed the area under nature protection.

history

The area lies on a southern slope in the area of the Spitzberg and the Ödenburg and drops steeply towards the Neckar. It has been a wine-growing area since the Middle Ages. Vineyard walls and terraces still shape the landscape today and give it an important cultural and historical value. Over time, this landscape was more and more left to itself. Natural succession resulted in interesting plant communities, semi-arid lawns, various stages of shrubbery and black locust forests. Evidence of the former viticulture are overgrown wine and cultural refugees, such as Iris germanica , Allium sativa and Ribes uva-crispa .

location

The nature reserve is located on the most south-westerly foothills of the Spitzberg ridge, which runs from west to east, around 1.5 kilometers east of Hirschau . It forms a semicircular bay to the west of the Ödenburg promontory.

The nature reserve is located in the natural area 104- Schönbuch and Glemswald within the natural spatial main unit 10- Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land . It is enclosed by the approximately 464 hectare protected landscape area No. 4.16.006 Spitzberg and is also part of the 3,568 hectare FFH area No. 7419341 Spitzberg, Pfaffenberg, Kochhartgraben and Neckar . It is also on the edge of the 15,362 hectare bird sanctuary No. 7420441 Schönbuch .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of a south-facing, culturally and historically significant, scientifically interesting steep slope with fallow land, semi-arid grassland, bush formations, old vineyard walls and terraces and forest edges, as well as the preservation of the extensive use of orchards. These are habitats for numerous rare and endangered, especially warm and dry-loving plants and animal species.

photos

NSG Spitzberg, in the background NSG Hirschauer Berg
View of the Neckar Valley from the Ödenburg location
Detail, view towards NW

General view of the nature reserve from the south

literature

Regional Council Tübingen (ed.): The nature reserves in the administrative district of Tübingen . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-5175-5 .