Stremel (nature reserve)
Coordinates: 52 ° 48 ′ 46 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 3 ″ E
The Stremel is a nature reserve in the town of Havelberg in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .
The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0004 is around 362 hectares . It is completely part of the FFH area “Untere Havel and Schollener See” and the EU bird protection area “Untere Havel / Saxony-Anhalt and Schollener See”. The nature reserve is the conservation area surrounded "Lower Havel". The area has been under protection since 1967 (date of regulation: September 11, 1967). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Stendal.
The nature reserve is located southeast of Havelberg in the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve . It places a contiguous wetland north of the Havel under protection. The near-natural wetland in the Lower Havel Lowlands in the Elbe Valley Lowlands is crossed by a tributary of the Havel, the eponymous Stremel, the Alten Havel, the Neue Jäglitz and numerous oxbow lakes and other bodies of water. It is extensively covered by reeds (reeds and water swaths) and sedge beds and the like. a. Taken with yellowish iris , broad-leaved Merk , bladder sedge , tubular horse seed , swamp wolf milk and long-leaved blue loosestrife. The water areas are of milfoil - water lilies companies u. a. Populated with white water lily and yellow pond rose as well as hair-leaved pondweed in places.
Parts of the nature reserve are occupied by grassland with flood troughs. Here are foxtail meadows and Silgen- Rasenschmielen meadow u. a. with swamp focal umbel , Common Wiesensilge , Nordic bedstraw , Big Burnet , edgy leeks and God hyssop , in the area of flood channels and flood lawn u. a. to be found with kinky fox tail , white ostrich grass , goose fingerweed , wild marsh cress and fox sedge .
At the edges of the water there are bushes with almond willows and osier . There are also small areas of white willow trees with marsh ragwort and marsh grass . Small-flowered foam herb and stiff winter cress can be found. Gray willow bushes occur in depressions and dry ditches . Hybrid poplar and Scots pine grow on dry sites in two rinsing fields on the banks of the Havel .
The nature reserve is a habitat for numerous species of birds . Marsh harrier , gray goose , teal , teal , shoveler , red-necked grebe , water rail and spotted moorhen , bittern , black tern , swirl warbler and great reed warbler can be found in the reed zones and waters . The wet meadows are the habitat of lapwing , snipe and redshank . The nature reserve is also a resting area for cranes , various diving and swimming ducks, as well as bean and white-fronted goose . The nature reserve is also the habitat of Elbe beavers and otters .
