Tongrube Oberauel nature reserve
Tongrube Oberauel nature reserve
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Oberauel nature reserve |
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location | Bergisch Gladbach , Overath - Untereschbach , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , NRW , Germany |
surface | 23.66 ha |
Identifier | GL-048 |
WDPA ID | 344794 |
FFH area | 9.01 hectares |
Geographical location | 50 ° 57 ' N , 7 ° 13' E |
Sea level | from 95 m to 205 m |
Setup date | 2005 |
administration | Lower landscape authority of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district |
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The nature reserve Tongrube Oberauel is a former clay pit with an area of 23.66 hectares. The nature reserve with the key number GL-048 is located in the Untereschbach district of Overath with the transition to the Moitzfeld district of Bergisch Gladbach .
Until the early 1960s , clay and greywacke were mined on the south side of the Aueler Berg, which rises 199 m above the Sülztal . The brick factory located in the Sülztal had its own siding to the Sülztalbahn .
FFH area
An approx. 9 hectare area of the NSG forms the FFH area according to the FFH directive under the name Tongrube / Steinbruch Oberauel and the number DE-5009-302 . Target species in the FFH area are the yellow-bellied toad and the midwife toad . Together with the Grube Weiß nature reserve , it forms an important refuge for amphibians . The only known occurrence of the yellow-bellied toad in the Bergisches Land is currently in the two former pits .
See also
- List of nature reserves in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis
- List of FFH areas in North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Tongrube Oberauel" nature reserve (GL-048) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 7, 2017.
- ↑ 5009-302 clay pit / quarry Oberauel. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ↑ Natura2000 - Tongrube / Steinbruch Oberauel on naturschutzinformationen-nrw.de, accessed on August 25, 2013.
- ↑ Yellow-bellied toad - Bergisches Land project region. Retrieved on July 17, 2016 (description of the FFH areas at the supervising Rhein-Berg biostation ).
Web links
- Wetlands near Oberauel - prophecies of doom from the clay pit. at nrw-stiftung.de
- Landscape plan "Südkreis" - Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Rösrath - Oberauel pit . The District Administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis (PDF; 2.7 MB).