Steinbeckforst

Steinbeckforst
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location	East of Harsefeld , Stade district , Lower Saxony
surface	70 ha
Identifier	NSG LÜ 325
WDPA ID	555690903
Geographical location	53 ° 27 '  N , 9 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '10 "  N , 9 ° 33' 6"  E
Sea level	from 27 m to 46 m
Setup date	June 29, 2018

The Steinbeck Forest is a nature reserve in Lower Saxony spots Harsefeld in the Samtgemeinde Harsefeld in the district of Stade .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG LÜ 325 is about 70  hectares . It is almost completely part of the FFH area "Auetal and side valleys". In the north the area borders on the 1997 designated nature reserve " Aueniederung und Sebentäler ", with which it forms a biotope network and to which it belonged before it was designated as an independent nature reserve in 2018. To the west and east it borders mainly to the conservation area "Auetal". In the northeast, a small part of the "Auetal" nature reserve has been incorporated into the nature reserve. The area has been under nature protection since June 29, 2018. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Stade.

The nature reserve is east of Harsefeld. It places the eastern part of the Steinbeck, a forest area on historically old forest locations, and part of the valley area of ​​the Steinbeck to the east under protection as Geestbach. The forest is characterized by near-natural beech forests , which stand on a ground moraine of the Stader Geest . Beech forests in the form of grove beech forests are predominant. Most of the grove beech forests are more than 100 years old. Woodruff beech forests are sometimes formed. In the Steinbeck valley in particular, old pedunculate oak and oak-hornbeam forests grow thick with oaks that are over 120 years old. The forests in the nature reserve have a high proportion of dead wood .

The forests in the nature reserve are managed by the Lower Saxony State Forests according to the LÖWE principles (long-term ecological forest development). There is also no use on some of the areas.

The nature reserve is the habitat of various bats , including the rough-skin bat and the great noctule bat . Still waters and humid areas in the Steinbeck valley are the habitat of tree frogs and crested newts . The area is the feeding habitat of the black stork , which has already hatched in Steinbeck. The forests are home to black woodpecker and stock dove . The Steinbeck has been straightened in the area of ​​the nature reserve, but has partially natural structures. It is the habitat of the otter as well as the river and brook lamprey .

Other forests border the nature reserve in the west and in the Steinbeck valley area. Otherwise it is largely surrounded by agricultural land , in the east it also borders in small areas on the locality of Ruschwedel . The Bremerhaven – Buxtehude railway runs south of the protected area .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Auetal and side valleys , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved July 12, 2018.