Stand

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location	Southwest of Delmenhorst , Oldenburg district , Lower Saxony
surface	217 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 312
FFH area	209.18 ha
Geographical location	53 ° 0 ′ N , 8 ° 29 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 20 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 55" E
Setup date	22nd December 2018

Beech forest at rest

The Stühe (also Stüher Forest or Stüher Forest ) is a forest area in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg .

location

The Stühe forest area is almost exclusively located in the northeastern area of the municipality of Dötlingen , north and northeast of the Dötlingen district of Klattenhof . Smaller parts to the east are in the area of the municipality of Ganderkesee . The Immer Bäke , a 5 km long right tributary of the catfish, flows on the eastern edge . The K 327 , which was widened in 2016 and provided with a cycle path, runs through the forest .

The forest is around 2.8 km in size from east-west and 0.8 to 1.5 km in north-south direction. In addition, there are the Welsburg meadows with about 40 hectares belonging to the district forester's office and bordering the Stühe to the north.

meaning

Most of the forest is a nature reserve designated "Stühe", the rest is part of the conservation area, "Welsetal and Stühe". In addition to its importance for forestry , the forest area is important for local recreation . After the Delmenhorst – Hesepe railway line opened in 1898, the station at Immer beim Stühe became the destination of Delmenhorstern and Bremern, who made their Sunday excursions here. In the same year the "Gasthof Witte" opened opposite the train station. In the next few years, two more inns were built on the edge of the forest, on the one hand the “Waldschlösschen” in Immer (today the “Haus am Wald” nursing home for the elderly) and the inn “Zum Hasen Ahlers” in the west on Bassumer Weg. After the Second World War , the excursion traffic ceased completely, so that the latter two had to close.

In February 1962, six fallow deer from the Eilenriede in Hanover were placed in an acclimatization gate. Another animal followed. These were released at the end of 1962. The current population is estimated at around 80 animals.

The Hasen-Ahlers-Weg runs through the Stühe. It was named in memory of the “dropout” and poacher Hasen-Ahlers (1831–1913), who lived there for many years in a sheep pen .

Nature reserve

Most of the forest has been under nature protection since December 22, 2018. The nature reserve with the sign NSG WE 312 is approximately 217 hectares. It is almost congruent with the FFH area of the same name . The parts of the landscape protection area "Welsetal and Stühe" within the scope of the nature conservation ordinance were incorporated into the nature reserve. Furthermore, two natural monuments , the ND137 “Margaretenmoor”, a birch bog forest in a muddy depression , and the ND138 “Schlatt im Stühe”, a Schlatt located on the edge of the forest with a peat moss cover , were added to the nature reserve. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Oldenburg.

The forests in the nature reserve are often dominated by grove beech forest . There are also chickweed, oak, hornbeam and oak forests . Small areas of bog forest as well as an area characterized as alluvial forest and wall hedges exist. The forests have a high proportion of old and dead wood .

The common beech dominates the beech forests . In addition, there is a small proportion of common oak . In the herb layer are u. a. You can find forest fluttergrass , wiryweed , pill sedge , wood sorrel , blueberry and lady's hair moss . The oak forests are dominated by English oak and hornbeam , depending on their characteristics . These are joined by z. B. European beech and white elm . In the shrub layer, holly and white elm settle in areas marked as oak-hornbeam forest or buckthorn in acidic oak forest. The herb layer is u. a. Formed by wood anemones , common witchweed , chickweed , forest honeysuckle , climbing lark's spur , golden nettle and pill sedge or willow, seven-star , blueberry, bracken and pipe grass .

The small-scale bog forests are dominated by downy birch and buckthorn. Various peat mosses as well as beak sedge , narrow-leaved and Scheidiges cottongrass settle in the herb layer . In addition, rushes, ledges and sedges are formed. The area, which is characterized as a floodplain forest, is dominated by black alder and common ash with slough in the herb layer.

In the north of the Stühe in particular, lowlands bordering the forest area are included in the scope of the Nature Conservation Ordinance. They are of a meadow occupied grassland with meadow foxtail , Sharp buttercup , lady's smock and Galium Mollugo taken. Still water can be found in these grassland areas and at the edge in Stühe . Here u. a. Floating pondweed , multi-rooted pond lentil , white water lily and frog spoon .

To the south, mainly other forest communities of the Stühe border the nature reserve, to the north it borders mainly on agricultural areas . In the east, the nature reserve borders the Delmenhorst – Hesepe railway line. The county road running through the forest area also crosses part of the nature reserve.

The freeschen boom

Remembering the freeschen boom

In Stühe, the branch direction Bergedorf , was the Free's Boom, also Fries oak called. The centuries-old, huge oak, the trunk circumference of which was 10 meters at the bottom, collapsed under its own weight in May 1889. Here gathered earlier every year the Hollandgänger to go in groups together to Holland. Those who had no income at home tried to earn a living there as a grass mower, peat cutter or sailor .

In April 1981 the current oak was planted by the Klattenhof village community and the district forester in memory of the Friesian oak and the people who went to Holland.

literature

Lüder Halenbeck : Delmenhorst , Stühe, Hasbruch , Hude . Kühtmann, Bremen 1882.
Hermann Speckmann , Gerold Spille: “ Hasen-Ahlers October 14, 1831 to June 26, 1913. The poacher from the stool ”. Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89995-398-5 .
Hans Grundmann: Stories from the history of the community Ganderkesee. Verlag Rieck, Delmenhorst 1987, ISBN 3-920794-30-3 .
Local and local history association Bürstel-Immer eV: Village chronicle Bürstel-Immer. Druckhaus Rieck, Delmenhorst 2002.

Web links

Commons : Stühe - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

↑ 50 years ago the Stühe became a bit "wilder" , district newspaper December 7, 2012. Accessed March 9, 2013.
↑ The Stüher forest , Hasen-Ahlers - The poacher from the Stühe. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
^ Hasen Ahlers , Klattenhof village community. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
↑ Stühe , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved January 3, 2018.
↑ Natural monuments , district of Oldenburg (PDF, 34 kB). Retrieved January 3, 2019.
↑ Ordinance on the “Stühe” nature reserve , Official Gazette for the Oldenburg district, No. 50/18, December 21, 2018, pp. 301–308 (PDF, 30.7 MB). Retrieved January 3, 2019.
↑ Free's boom , village community Klattenhof. Retrieved January 3, 2019.

[1] 50 years ago the Stühe became a bit "wilder" , district newspaper December 7, 2012. Accessed March 9, 2013.

[2] The Stüher forest , Hasen-Ahlers - The poacher from the Stühe. Retrieved March 9, 2013.

[3] Hasen Ahlers , Klattenhof village community. Retrieved January 3, 2018.

[4] Stühe , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved January 3, 2018.

[5] Natural monuments , district of Oldenburg (PDF, 34 kB). Retrieved January 3, 2019.

[6] Ordinance on the “Stühe” nature reserve , Official Gazette for the Oldenburg district, No. 50/18, December 21, 2018, pp. 301–308 (PDF, 30.7 MB). Retrieved January 3, 2019.

[7] Free's boom , village community Klattenhof. Retrieved January 3, 2019.