Lower Neckar Heidelberg-Mannheim

	FFH area ; "Unterer Neckar Heidelberg-Mannheim"
	Altneckar nature reserve Heidelberg-Wieblingen
location	City districts of Mannheim and Heidelberg as well as four cities and municipalities in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier	DE-6517-341
WDPA ID	555521573
FFH area	2.848 km²
Geographical location	49 ° 27 ' N , 8 ° 36' E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '39 " N , 8 ° 35' 57" E
Setup date	January 1, 2005
administration	Karlsruhe Regional Council

The FFH Lower Neckar Heidelberg-Mannheim is one in 2005 by the Karlsruhe Regional Council after the Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna and Habitats Directive) registered reserve (reserve identifier DE-6517-341) in the German state of Baden- Württemberg . With the ordinance of the regional council of Karlsruhe on the definition of areas of community importance of October 12, 2018, the protected area was established.

location

The approximately 285 hectare FFH area belongs to the natural area 224- Neckar-Rhine plain within the natural spatial main unit 22- Northern Upper Rhine Lowland . It lies between Heidelberg and the Mannheim district of Neuostheim along the Neckar and extends over the markings of six cities and communities.

City district Heidelberg : 93.8835 ha = 33%
Mannheim city district : 56.8991 ha = 20%

Rhein-Neckar district:

Dossenheim : 8.5348 ha = 3%
Ilvesheim : 56.8991 ha = 20%
Ladenburg : 14.2247 ha = 5%
Edingen-Neckarhausen : 54.0541 ha = 19%

Description and purpose of protection

The Lower Neckar between Heidelberg and Mannheim with floodplains and foreland is a unique river landscape in the agglomeration with islands, gravel and sandbanks, shallow and still water areas, oxbow lakes, impact and sliding banks, richly structured vegetation and species-rich fauna.

Habitat classes

(general characteristics of the area) (percentage of total area)

Information according to the standard data sheet from the Official Journal of the European Union



N06 - inland waters (standing and flowing)			37%
N08 - heather, scrub, macchia, garrigue, phrygana			6%
N10 - Moist and mesophilic grassland			29%
N14 - Meliorated grassland			17%
N16 - deciduous forest			10%
N23 - Others			1 %

Habitat types

According to Appendix 1 of the ordinance of the Karlsruhe Regional Council on the definition of areas of Community importance (FFH ordinance) of October 12, 2018, the following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU code	Habitat type (official name)	Short name	Hectares
3150	Natural eutrophic lakes with magnopotamion or hydrocharition vegetation	Natural nutrient-rich lakes	2.07
3260	Rivers of the planar to montane level with vegetation of the Ranunculion fluitantis and the Callitricho-Batrachion	Running waters with flooding aquatic vegetation	31.30
3270	Rivers with mud banks with Chenopodion rubri pp and Bidention pp vegetation	Muddy river banks with pioneer vegetation	0.10
6430	Moist tall herbaceous vegetation of the planar and montane to alpine level	Moist tall herbaceous vegetation	2.40
6510	Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)	Lean, lowland hay meadows	25.40
91E0	Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)	Alluvial forests with alder, ash, willow	29.50

Contiguous protected areas

The FFH area consists of five sub-areas. It is largely congruent with several landscape protection areas and the nature reserves :

2097 - Lower Neckar: Altneckar Heidelberg-Wieblingen
2098 - Lower Neckar: Altneckar Wörth-Weidenstücker
2099 - Lower Neckar: Neckar plain between Botzheimer Wasen and Obere Wörth
2100 - Lower Neckar: Altneckarschleife-Neckar plates
2101 - Lower Neckar: Wörthel

Web links

Data evaluation sheet and map in the profile of the FFH area in the protected area directory of the LUBW
Profile of the Natura 2000 area 6617-341 Unterer Neckar Heidelberg-Mannheim (FFH area) at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation