Forest fountain (nature and landscape protection area)

	Nature and landscape protection area "Waldbrunnen" IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	The north-western part of the NSG Waldbrunnen
location	Horb am Neckar in the Freudenstadt district , Baden-Württemberg
surface	33.3 ha
Identifier	2.184
WDPA ID	166142
Geographical location	48 ° 28 ' N , 8 ° 37' E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '42 " N , 8 ° 36' 53" E
Sea level	from 585 m to 630 m
Setup date	December 16, 1994
administration	Karlsruhe Regional Council

Waldbrunnen is a nature and landscape protection area with the protection area number 2.184 that was designated by the Karlsruhe Regional Council on December 16, 1994 . The supplementary landscape protection area of the same name is number 2.37.047.

location

The protected areas are located in the Obere Gäue natural area . They are located north of the Horber district of Grünmettstetten and are part of the FFH area No. 7516-341 Freudenstädter Heckengäu .

Protection purpose

According to the Protected Area Ordinance, the main protection purpose of the nature reserve is:

the maintenance and promotion of the floodplain of the forest well, with its extensive stocks of sedge, reed beds and tall perennials and the corresponding fauna;
the preservation and promotion of the relatively small, species-rich semi-arid grassland as a food and habitat for a particularly numerous and sometimes highly endangered insect fauna
the preservation and promotion of the hedges and field trees and the reading stone bars as defining components of the historical cultural landscape of the shell limestone as well as feeding, living and retreat areas of a rich small mammal and avifauna;
the maintenance and promotion of a particularly diverse perennial border flora as an ecologically important link between intensively and extensively used areas;
the preservation and promotion of the different meadow types and their pronounced diversity of vegetation as well as the ecologically valuable orchards as feeding, living and retreat areas for a highly endangered insect, small mammal and avifauna.

The protection purpose of the landscape protection area is the preservation of extended living and retreat areas for the flora and fauna occurring in the nature reserve as an ecologically sensible and therefore necessary supplement; the preservation and promotion of a varied cultural landscape, equipped with natural landscape elements of the Heckengau and Schlehengau, as an aesthetically very appealing recreational area, as well as the preservation of the agriculturally used areas and the near-natural forest edges with their herb fringes to promote a balanced natural balance.

Flora and fauna

The endangered field buttercup is one of the area's accompanying flora . Narrow-leaved cottongrass , broad-leaved cattails , swamp forget-me-nots , marsh skullcap and snake knotweed grow on the moist sites . The last-named plant is the irreplaceable food of the marginal ring mother-of-pearl moth . The mountain bumblebee and the changeable bumblebee fly in the area, which only occur in the Gäu in Baden-Württemberg . The hedges of the area are inhabited by typical hedge breeders such as the blackcap , rattle warbler , red backed killer and yellowhammer .

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 , pp. 271-272

Web links

Commons : Forest Fountain Nature Reserve - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Profile of the nature reserve Waldbrunnen in the protected area directory of the LUBW with protected area ordinance and map
Profile of the landscape protection area Waldbrunnen in the protection area directory of the LUBW with protection area ordinance and map