Waller flat ponds

Waller flat ponds
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location	North-east of Verden (Aller) , Verden district , Lower Saxony
surface	22.7 ha
Identifier	NSG LÜ 338
WDPA ID	555690915
FFH area	5.31 ha
Geographical location	52 ° 59 '  N , 9 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '56 "  N , 9 ° 16' 29"  E
Sea level	from 43 m to 50 m
Setup date	1st December 2018

The Waller flat ponds are a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony town of Verden (Aller) and the municipality of Kirchlinteln in the district of Verden .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG LÜ 338 is around 22.7 hectares in size. The 5.31 hectare FFH area "Sandgrube bei Walle" is part of the nature reserve. In the south, the nature reserve is adjacent to the conservation area "Pogge Moor". The area has been under nature protection since December 1, 2018. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Verden.

The nature reserve is located northeast of Verden (Aller). It protects several shallow still waters of a former sand pit . Strandling and dwarf rush communities settle in the waters or in their bank areas. The sometimes periodically drying up waters are embedded in pioneer grass that is increasingly bushed with downy birch . They are home to fine candelabrum algae , shimmering luster algae , changeless milfoil , common pennywort , flooding celery , six-male tannel and small water lily . Small areas of beak reed vegetation with round-leaved sundew , marsh bear moss and rushes rich in peat moss, moist sandy heather and bushes of gray and ear willow can be found. The late yellow sedge , thread rush , water thick leaf and small valerian also settle in the nature reserve . Drier locations are partly covered with bushes, partly poor grassland and common heather settle here . Partial areas are characterized as extensively used, species-rich grassland . Mixed deciduous forests are particularly thick in the south of the protected area . The needle herb immigrated to the area as a neophyte .

The nature reserve is a habitat of various amphibians , including great crested newt , smooth newt , common spadefoot , natterjack toad , common toad , moor frog and frog .

The nature reserve is looked after by the Naturschutzbund Deutschland . It is bounded in the northwest by the county road between Walle and Holtum (Geest) . In the southeast of a passing Wirtschaftsweg .

Web links

• Nature reserve "Waller Flachteiche" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sand pit near Walle , profiles of the Natura 2000 areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved December 28, 2018.
2. ↑ New nature and landscape protection areas in Kirchlinteln and Verden , Kreiszeitung , July 4, 2018. Accessed December 28, 2018.
3. ^ Onno Kutscher: Waller Flachteichen is running out of water , Weser-Kurier , August 22, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Justification and explanation of the ordinance of the district of Verden on the nature reserve "Waller Flachteiche" , district of Verden (PDF, 166 kB). Retrieved December 28, 2018.
5. ↑ Andreas Becker: Where the mouse-ear hunts , Wümme-Zeitung , July 15, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
6. ^ Waller flat ponds , NABU district association Verden e. V. Accessed December 28, 2018.