Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen

Nature reserve "Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen" IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen (2015)
location	Location , Lippe District , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	18.2 ha
Identifier	LIP-085
WDPA ID	378286
Geographical location	51 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 20 ″  E
Setup date	2006

The Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen area is a nature reserve designated in 2006 by the Detmold regional council (NSG number LIP – 085) in the southwest of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Lage in the Lippe district in Germany .

location

The approximately 18 hectare large nature reserve Stade Hauser marl-pits is one natural area to Lipper Bergland . It extends southwest of the city center of Lagens between Bielefelder Straße ( Bundesstraße 66 ) in the north and Breitenheider Straße in the south, the district of Stadenhausen in the east and Cameroon in the west.

description

The Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen protected area is described with seven former marl hollows , which are now occupied by a vegetation mosaic of forest, bushes / pre-forest, pioneering fields and limestone semi-dry lawns, with a strongly moving soil relief that lie within an otherwise arable landscape.

The Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen are an important refuge for numerous, sometimes endangered, animal and plant species due to their high structural wealth and the closely interlinked mosaic of different types of vegetation on small-scale, changing site conditions.

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of a species-rich complex of rare plant communities ( semi -arid grasslands ) with partly endangered species and diverse structured bushes and near-natural field trees and small bodies of water.

Biotope types

In the Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen protected area , the biotope types are "beech forest", "fallow lean grassland", "mixed oak forest with indigenous deciduous tree species", "mixed ash forest", "moist tall herbaceous vegetation (extensive)", "bushes, shrub groups", "loam, clay excavation", and Small standing water ”.

Flora and fauna

flora

Genuine centaury

Of the flora worthy of protection, the " species of the red list of endangered plants in North Rhine-Westphalia" occurring in the area are to be mentioned:

• Field brisket
• Tormentil
• Real bedstraw
• Centaury (photo)
• Dyer's gorse
• Fox sedge
• Winged St. John's Wort
• Common quaking grass
• Common cruciferous
• Shield Speedwell
• Marsh yarrow

fauna

Among the fauna worthy of protection, the "species of the Red List of Endangered Animals in North Rhine-Westphalia" and animal species according to the Habitats Directive are to be mentioned:

Marsh grasshopper

• Blackcap
• Skylark
• Tree Sparrow
• Yellow mockers
• Goldhammer
• Heather grasshopper
• Crested newt
• lapwing
• Rattle warbler
• Little meadow bird
• Small woodpecker
• Buckthorn hairstreak
• nightingale
• Marsh grasshopper (photo)
• Wood warbler
• Woodcock

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Lippe district

Web links

Commons : Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve "Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• World Database on Protected Areas - Stadenhauser Mergelkuhlen (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map at www.protectedplanet.net, accessed on April 12, 2020.
2. ↑ Description of the protected area by the LANUV .
3. ↑ Protection goals of the LANUV .
4. ↑ Information on habitats and species of the LANUV