Peat venn

Peat venn IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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location	North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	1.38 ha
WDPA ID	82732
Geographical location	51 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '14 "  N , 7 ° 56' 20"  E
Setup date	1958

The Torfvenn is a nature reserve in the Warendorf district . It has a size of approximately 1.38 hectares.

The protected area, which is framed on all sides by agriculturally used areas, is located 3 km west of Warendorf in the Neuwarendorf district between the B 64 (August-Wessing-Damm) and district road 3. It consists primarily of a tree and shrubbery Heather pond that used to contain nutrient-poor water. A poplar grove borders the water in the east.

At the beginning of the 1960s, larger stocks of narrow-leaved cotton grass ( Eriophorum angustifolium ) and blackberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum ) were growing on its edge .

The floristic features used to include the thread sedge , the mean sundew ( Drosera intermedia ) and the swamp hard hay ( Hypericum elodes ). Towards the end of the 1950s, the round-leaved sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ) appeared in thousands of specimens, of the rare marsh bear moss ( Lycopodiella inundata ) around 200 plants.

Since nutrient-rich water was channeled into the pond from the adjacent usable areas, plant species adapted to the medium nutrient content could settle in the course of time, including swamp blood-eye ( Potentilla palustris ), pennywort ( Hydrocotyle vulgaris ), swamp hairline and swamp violet ( Viola palustris ) .

Today the area is completely eutrophic and has no more rare plant species apart from the king fern ( Osmunda regalis ). Dominating eutraphente species such as yellow iris ( Iris pseudacorus ), bittersweet nightshade ( Solanum dulcamara ), pipe-canary grass ( Phalaris arundinacea ), Shore Wolfstrapp ( Lycopus europaeus ).

The common snipe used to be one of the breeding birds . The tree pipit , which was represented by 5 breeding pairs, was considered a character bird .

literature

• New nature reserves in Westphalia. In: Natur und Heimat, Volume 18, Issue 4 (1958), page 124
• Fritz Runge : The nature reserves of Westphalia and the administrative district of Osnabrück. 2nd edition, Münster 1961, pp. 226–228
• Fitz Runge: The nature reserves of Westphalia and the former administrative district of Osnabrück. 2nd edition, Münster 1982, pp. 257-258
• Rüdiger Wittig : The protected moors and oligotrophic waters of the Westphalian Bight (series of publications by the State Institute for Ecology, State Development and Forestry Plan North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 5). Münster 1980, pages 192-195

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Warendorf district (WAF-022)

Web links

• "Torfvenn" nature reserve (WAF-022) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

References and comments

1. ↑ See: New nature reserves in Westphalia. In: Natur und Heimat, Volume 18, Issue 4 (1958), page 124
2. ↑ See: New nature reserves in Westphalia. In: Natur und Heimat, Volume 18, Issue 4 (1958), page 124