Quarry on Barkhauser Berg

	Quarry on Barkhauser Berg IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Quarry in February 2015
location	Oerlinghausen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	6.3 ha
Identifier	LIP-067
WDPA ID	329645
Geographical location	51 ° 57 ' N , 8 ° 40' E Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '50 " N , 8 ° 39' 43" E
Setup date	2004
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Lippe district

The quarry on Barkhauser Berg is a former limestone quarry and has been a nature reserve in Oerlinghausen in the Lippe district since 2004 .

history

The founding of the quarry goes back to the industrialist and landowner Harald Tenge , son of Carl Friedrich Tenge . After many years of disputes with the city of Oerlinghausen and its competitor Sultemeier, he was granted a concession in 1875 and was able to start mining limestone. The kilns for the lime kiln were built in the quarry . The plant survived until the 1990s, when the ovens and vibrators were dismantled by 2001. As early as the early 1990s, the Federation for Bird Protection , which was soon renamed the Naturschutzbund Deutschland, acquired the unused parts of the quarry. The street Am Kalkofen, which runs past the pit, still reminds of the former lime extraction .

Characteristic

The slopes of the quarry tower up to 20 meters. The development can be read on the broken rock formations 90 million years ago, as the shallow sea of the Turonian with its dead occupants initiated the formation of limestone. The valley basin catches the sun's rays in summer and provides a suitable habitat for heat-loving species such as reptiles and amphibians, including the sand lizard and the forest lizard . The eagle owl , the world's largest species of owl , breeds in the rock caves . Fringed gentian , spring cinquefoil , field thyme and round-leaved bellflower grow on the stony ground . The small ponds partially dry out in summer, this is the habitat of the natterjack toad . NABU looks after the nature reserve in the quarry and prevents encroachment by grazing goats.

Web links

Commons : Steinbruch am Barkhauser Berg nature reserve - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nature reserve "Steinbruch am Barkhauser Berg" (LIP-067) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

^ Katharina Korell: Time leaps in Oerlinghausen . Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 , p. 42-43 .
↑ Karin Prignitz: The quarry is a biotope today. In: New Westphalian. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
^ Daniel Lühr, Peter Rüther: NSG Steinbruch am Barkhauser Berg . In: Nature reserves in Lippe . Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940751-22-5 , p. 134-144 .

[1] Katharina Korell: Time leaps in Oerlinghausen . Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 , p. 42-43 .

[2] Karin Prignitz: The quarry is a biotope today. In: New Westphalian. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .

[3] Daniel Lühr, Peter Rüther: NSG Steinbruch am Barkhauser Berg . In: Nature reserves in Lippe . Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940751-22-5 , p. 134-144 .