Tönneckenkopf

	Tönneckenkopf – Röseckenbach nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	View from the Harz over the nature reserve to the limestone mining near Oker
location	Between Oker and Bad Harzburg in the district of Goslar ( Lower Saxony )
surface	20 ha
Identifier	NSG BR 045
WDPA ID	82727
Geographical location	51 ° 54 ' N , 10 ° 30' E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '44 " N , 10 ° 30' 17" E
Setup date	11/16/1988
administration	NLWKN

Tönneckenkopf – Röseckenbach is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony cities of Bad Harzburg and Goslar in the district of Goslar .

Nature reserve

The nature reserve with the sign NSG BR 045 is 20 hectares in size and includes the western part of the Tönneckenkopf and part of the floodplain area of the Röseckenbach . It is located between the Bad Harzburg district of Göttingerode and the Goslar district of Oker on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in the Harz Nature Park . In the south, the nature reserve borders on the former federal road 6, which has been downgraded to state road 501 . The area has been a nature reserve since November 16, 1988. It replaces the nature reserve of the same name, which was designated on August 16, 1982. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Goslar.

vegetation

On the steep exposed limestone slopes to the west, limestone beech forest grows , which merges into alluvial forest remnants of the Röseckenbach. Parts of the Röseckenbach lowlands are used for agriculture. This is followed by fallow, formerly extensively used grassland areas . Rare meadow communities influenced by heavy metals occur here. The influence of heavy metals can be traced back to centuries-old mining activities in the Harz Mountains, especially to smelting and the slag heaps between Oker and Harlingerode .

The Tönneckenkopf, sometimes also referred to as the Tännchenkopf or Tönneckenskopf , is a shell limestone hill whose dry, shallow hilltop and south-facing slope areas are populated by semi- arid grass and heat-loving fringes and bushes. The slope areas exposed to the north are occupied by grasslands and fallow oat meadows . The hill was partially built on as part of the resettlement of some Göttingen households and was only sparsely overgrown with deciduous trees and bushes around 1976, but is now mostly forested.

Web links

Commons : Tönneckenkopf-Röseckenbach nature reserve - collection of images, videos and audio files

Nature reserve "Tönneckenkopf – Röseckenbach" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)
Map display of the NSG at openstreetmap.org

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Baumgarten : Contributed: The larger Bad Harzburg . P. 52 .: "The community [Harlingerode] then had a sports facility set up and a sports home built on the slope of the Tännchenkopf ."

↑ Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation : Official ordinance card for the nature reserve "Tönneckenkopf - Röseckenbach" , accessed on May 31, 2019. The map describes the hill as Tönneckenskopf .

^ Horst Voigt : 40 years of Göttingerode. 1936 to 1976. Bad Harzburg, September 1976. p. 23.

[1] Wilhelm Baumgarten : Contributed: The larger Bad Harzburg . P. 52 .: "The community [Harlingerode] then had a sports facility set up and a sports home built on the slope of the Tännchenkopf ."