Venner Moor

This article is about the Venner Moor nature reserve in the Coesfeld district. For the nature reserve of the same name in the district of Osnabrück see Venner Moor (district of Osnabrück) .

Venner Moor nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Moor waters in the Venner Moor.
location	Send , Coesfeld , NRW , Germany
surface	148 ha
Identifier	COE-003
WDPA ID	82777
Natura 2000 ID	[http://www.naturschutzinformationen-nrw.de/natura2000-meldedok/de/fachinfo/listen/meldedok/DE-4111-301 DE-4111-301 DE-4111-301 ]
FFH area	147 hectares
Geographical location	51 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '35 "  N , 7 ° 32' 31"  E
Setup date	1954

Aerial view of the Venner Moors

The Venner Moor is a former high moor west of the Davert near the village of Venne ( municipality of Senden , district of Coesfeld , North Rhine-Westphalia ) between Lippe and Ems , directly on the Dortmund-Ems Canal . The total area is about 148 hectares. It is designated as a nature reserve and a protected area in terms of the Habitats Directive .

Venner Moor

Condition and vegetation

This rain bog was largely peeled off . In the center there are forest-free remains of the former peat body. Here there are four large, now water-filled peat cuttings, in which a reluctant renaturation process is taking place. The rest of the area is now largely forested with birch and pine trees.

Rare species

Several endangered animal species are native to the area, one of the last known occurrences of the mole cricket in North Rhine-Westphalia is in the bog . There are also various types of dragonflies, such as the peat damsel and the Nordic moss damsel . Also in the area you can find goat milkers , tree falcons , middle and black woodpeckers , wood sandpipers , little grebes and the teal . The area is known for the occurrence of the poisonous, but very shy adder . The Greenland Porst ( Ledum groenlandicum ) has long been naturalized in the Venner Moor .

Development

In terms of tourism, the protected area is made accessible by cycling / hiking trails, which lead to considerable pollution. There are two parking spaces in the outskirts. Due to the unique landscape, numerous tours through the Venner Moor are offered on a regular basis. For many years a nursery used the peaty soil in the northeastern part of the moor birch forest as a tree nursery, especially for rhododendrons . After this use was abandoned in the 1980s, many of these non-indigenous trees remained in the nature reserve.

Others

A Venner Moor nature reserve of the same name is located near Venne (Ostercappeln) in Lower Saxony.

The historical novels Der Moorkönig (Berlin 1999) and The Return of the Moorkönig (Berlin 2010) by the German author Eva Maaser take their starting point in the landscape of the Venner Moors.

In 2002, scenes from the first crime scene in Münster were created on the Venner Moor: The dark spot . A bog body was discovered here in the film.

See also

• List of nature reserves in North Rhine-Westphalia
• List of FFH areas in North Rhine-Westphalia

Web links

Commons : Venner Moor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nature reserve “Venner Moor” (COE-003) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Events and excursion dates to the Venner Moor. Nature Conservation Center District Coesfeld e. V., accessed on August 16, 2012 . 
• Venner Moor nature reserve. Nature Conservation Center District Coesfeld e. V., accessed on August 16, 2012 . 
• Venner Moor nature reserve. (PDF; 2.4 MB) Nature Conservation Center District Coesfeld e. V., 2010, accessed on August 16, 2012 (leaflet). 
• Davert and Venner Moor (NaTourZeit). (PDF; 794 kB) State Institute for Ecology, Land Management and Forests NRW , 2003, accessed on April 24, 2011 (leaflet). 
• Ludger Steinmann: Without water there is no bog - Problems and strategies for protecting raised bogs in Westphalia: The example of the Venner bog. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , 2011, accessed on August 16, 2012 .