Vogelraupfi

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Vogelraupfi
180 degree panorama from the south (right bank of the Aare).
180 degree panorama from the south (right bank of the Aare).
Waters Aare
Geographical location 621 205  /  230675 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '36 "  N , 7 ° 43' 7"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred twenty-one thousand two hundred and five  /  230675
Vogelraupfi (Canton of Bern)
Vogelraupfi
length 292 m
width 78 m
surface 1.2 ha
Residents uninhabited
180 degree panorama from the north (left bank of the Aare).
180 degree panorama from the north (left bank of the Aare).

View from the north. View to the south to the right bank of the Aare (Önz estuary in the middle).
View from the south. Detail. (On the left edge of the picture three gray geese.)

The Vogelraupfi or Vogelroupfi ( Bärndütsch Raupfi, Rouffi , "feeding place") is an island in the Aare near Bannwil in the Swiss canton of Bern . It is under nature protection and is used by various birds such as the gray goose , the little bittern or the kingfisher as a breeding and nesting site and is an important resting place outside the breeding season.

The island is 30 meters from the left (north) river bank, and 115 meters from the right. It is around 292 meters long and a maximum of 78 meters wide. The area covers 1.2  hectares . When the water level is low, mud flats expand the food source for birds, especially for Limikolen .

A smaller island Vogelraupfi was already under protection - together with the island in the width - in 1944, but was removed in 1965 because it fell victim to the construction of the new Bannwil power plant . Instead, the now existing island was built in 1970 using the side channel of the old hydroelectric power station. In 1972 it became known that the Graben nuclear power plant was to be built in the immediate vicinity on the right bank of the Aare, but this did not take place due to broad opposition from the population.

literature

  • Karl Ludwig Schmalz: From the old to the new "Vogelraupfi". In: Yearbook of the Oberaargau. Volume 14, 1971, p. 75 ff; with contribution by Otto Hegg: The vegetation succession on the Aare islands. P. 79 ff ( article, pdf , digibern.ch; illustrated in detail).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lit. Schalz, 1972, 1.2.1 The name of the island. P. 75 f (pdf, p. 2)
  2. ↑ Message archive of the Swiss Ornithological Institute (www.ornitho.ch), accessed on July 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Wikipedia article Graben, Canton Bern