Monster gorge

	Ungeheuerklamm nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Ungeheuerklamm nature reserve (Weingarten)
location	Weingarten (Baden) , Karlsruhe district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	49.5 ha
Identifier	2199
WDPA ID	165988
Geographical location	49 ° 4 ' N , 8 ° 33' E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '23 " N , 8 ° 32' 50" E
Setup date	April 4, 1996
administration	Karlsruhe Regional Council

The monster gorge is a nature reserve in the border region of natural areas Northern Upper Rhine lowland and gäu plateaus in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

geography

The nature reserve lies on the territory of the municipalities of Bruchsal , Untergrombach and Weingarten (Baden) . It encompasses the Talklinge of the Ungeheuerklamm (between the community forest District II Bergwald on the Bruchsal-Untergrombach district and the community forest District II Katzenberg on the Weingarten district) with the hillside forests adjacent to the gorge. The protected area also includes the orchard and meadow belt on the western slope of the mountain forest in the soot and weir ditches, bounded to the west by federal highway 3 and some properties in the Galgenberg district, Weingarten community.

Characteristics

The area was designated as a nature reserve by ordinance on April 2, 1996 by the Karlsruhe Regional Council and has an area of almost 50 hectares. It is listed under the protected area number 2.199 and is classified in IUCN Category IV, a biotope and species protection area. The CDDA code is 165988 and also corresponds to the WDPA ID .

The main protection purpose is the preservation, care and development of the Ungeheuerklamm and the adjacent areas as important habitats for rare, sometimes specialized and endangered animal and plant species in their communities.

history

The Ungeheuerklamm is the largest of a series of ravine-like blades (gorges) that have formed in the area between Bruchsal and Karlsruhe-Durlach. In addition to the ravine-like valley ridge with its submontane vegetation - including the ravine forest - which is characterized by damp and cool conditions, the protected position also includes adjacent orchards and extensively cultivated meadows with small, mosaic-like structures.

geology

Blue-red stone seeds (Buglossoides purpurocaerulea) in the Ungeheuerklamm

The bedrock in this area is the Upper Muschelkalk, which is covered by layers of loess or clay of varying thickness.

Flora and fauna

Purple orchid (Orchis purpurea) in the Ungeheuerklamm

Bockstrap tongue (Himantoglossum hircinum) in the Ungeheuerklamm

Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in the monster gorge

In the warm, dry hillside forests and the cool, damp Talklinge with their characteristic forest communities and their numerous regional and supraregional botanical peculiarities such as the blue-red stone seeds , deer tongue , the forest cornice and the lobed shield fern , also known as thorny shield fern, there are also some types of orchid such as the nest root , the white Waldvögelein , broad-leaved stendellus , helmet orchid , purple orchid and goat's tongue . A floristic feature of cool, shady deciduous forests in the west-central Kraichgau was also the long-leaved forest bird , which for several decades was only known from the Ungeheuerklamm. It was only regularly found again in the Durlach area.

The true meaning of the Ungeheuerklamm lies in its moss and lichen flora. It is the location of about 30-40 submontane moss species, which are regionally found almost exclusively in this area.

In birds, for example, pied flycatcher , graycatcher and hoopoe have been detected in the area, the latter of which is on the red list in Germany .

literature

District Office for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Karlsruhe (Ed.): The nature reserves in the administrative district of Karlsruhe . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-5172-7
Klaus Geggus and Hubert Daul: Weingartener Moor, Ungeheuerklamm and natural monuments on the outskirts of Weingarten (Baden) . In: Bürger- und Heimatverein Weingarten eV (Hrsg.): Local history publications . DG Druck GmbH, Weingarten 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

↑ § 3 Protection Ordinance of the Karlsruhe Regional Council of April 2, 1996, accessed on September 13, 2015

↑ [1] Appreciation of the nature reserve “Ungeheuerklamm” from April 4, 1996, accessed on September 13, 2015

Web links

Commons : Ungeheuerklamm nature reserve - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas

[DE_BFN-Karten-1] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )