Wasenmoos (Tettnang)

	"Wasenmoos" nature reserve
	View of the NSG "Wasenmoos" (March 2012)
location	Tettnang , Lake Constance district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	0.267 km²
Identifier	4.025
WDPA ID	82866
Geographical location	47 ° 42 ' N , 9 ° 36' E
Sea level	from 463 m to 467 m ( ø 465 m)
Setup date	October 18, 1939
administration	Regional Council Tübingen

The Wasenmoos area is a nature conservation area (NSG number 4.025) in the northeast of the Baden-Württemberg city of Tettnang in the Lake Constance district in Germany, designated by ordinance of the Württemberg Minister of Culture as a higher nature conservation authority (successor is the Tübingen Regional Council) .

location

The approximately 27 hectare Wasenmoos nature reserve is part of the Lake Constance basin and the Upper Swabian hill country . It is located around 2.4 kilometers north of Tettnang city center in the Fünfehrlen district , west of the Blumenrain district and east of federal highway 467 near Obermeckenbeuren , at an altitude of 465 m above sea level. NN . The NSG extends in a north-south facing valley from Liebenau to Kaltenberg. In the literature, the NSG Wasenmoos has also become known under the following names: Wasenmoos south of Liebenau , Wasenmoos near Meckenbeuren or Wasenmoos near Obermeckenbeuren with its northern continuation, the Weiherwiesen von Liebenau . It is easy to confuse it with the NSG Wasenmoos near Grünkraut, southeast of Ravensburg , which is not far away !

Protection purpose

Essential protective purpose is to maintain a flat and transition Moors on a würmeiszeitlichen Talwasserscheide, mostly abgetorft with birch -Bruchwald.

Flora and fauna

flora

From the flora worthy of protection the following plant species (selection) are to be named:

Common cranberry ( Vaccinium oxycoccos ); a representative of the heather family (Ericaceae)
Silver birch ( Betula pendula ), also called sand , white or warty birch ; a deciduous deciduous tree from the birch family

Bogberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum ), also blackberry or bogberry ; is a shrub belonging to the genus of blueberries

Round-leaved Sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ), also called Himmelstau , Herrgottslöffel or Widdertod ; a species from the sundew family (Droseraceae)

White Schnabelried ( Rhynchospora alba ); a representative of the sour grass family

literature

Department for nature conservation and landscape management: nature reserves in the administrative district of Tübingen . Ed .: Regional Council Tübingen. Second revised and expanded edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-5175-5 , pp. 298-299 .