White fens
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White Fens landscape protection area
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 White fens |
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| location | Reken , Borken , NRW , Germany | |
| surface | 4.32 km² | |
| Identifier | BOR-036 | |
| WDPA ID | 555553438 | |
| Natura 2000 ID | [http://natura2000-meldedok.naturschutzinformationen.nrw.de/natura2000-meldedok/de/fachinfo/listen/meldedok/DE-4108-303 DE-4108-303 DE-4108-303 ] | |
| FFH area | 12.98 km² | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 48 ' N , 7 ° 8' E | |
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| Framework plan | Landscape plan Haltern - "White Fens and Gesheide" (pp. 37–39) | |
| administration | Borken district | |
| particularities | Refuge areas for highly endangered plant and animal species (especially for the moor frog ) | |
The White Fens landscape area is a protected landscape area near Reken in the Borken district . Together with the Geisheide it forms the nature reserve Weißes Venn - Geisheide .
General
The White Fens was originally one of the largest contiguous bog areas in the Münsterland . Today the area consists of small-scale, predominantly agricultural areas with fields, pastures, hedges, rows of trees and individual farms with large quarry ponds created by sand mining.
Due to the settlement and agriculture, which began mainly in the 19th century, combined with the extraction of raw materials and traffic, the White Fens was subject to major changes in the landscape. With the project Weißes Venn: On the way into the future guidelines for the preservation and protection of natural landscapes are to be developed in order to implement concrete measures in the areas of land management, nature protection, development, energy, raw materials and tourism.
Flora and fauna
The area consists of extensive swamp , moor and heathland landscapes . Part of the moors has meanwhile been peeled off . In the southwestern part of the White Venn borders dwarf shrub heaths of Geisheide where mainly bell Gentiles and broom heaths find. The north-western, western and eastern areas consist primarily of moist grassland and standing water ; the area is part of the Borkenberge military training area . In the northeast there are nutrient-rich peat vein ponds that are inhabited by carp . There are also reeds , cattails and hedgehog reeds as well as sedges .
Due to its rare moorland, the White Fens is a habitat for various animal species (moor frog , bluethroat , goat milker , woodlark ) and plant species ( sundew , orchid and rosemary heather ).
White Venn project : On the way to the future
In order to counteract the rapid changes in the landscape caused by cultivation and settlement and to protect the natural biotopes as well as the endangered plant and animal species indigenous there, the project White Venn: On the way into the future was launched by the six surrounding municipalities . Coesfeld , Dülmen , Gescher , Heiden , Reken and Velen jointly submitted a project outline to the Regionale 2016 on May 13, 2012 . The intermunicipal usage and action concept was raised to B status in 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nature reserve "Weißes Venn - Geisheide" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 23, 2017.
- ↑ White Fens: On the way into the future. Website of the city of Dülmen. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
- ↑ White Fens: On the way into the future. ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Regionale 2016 . Retrieved May 20, 2016.
- ↑ a b Natura 2000 area "DE-4108-303 Weißes Venn / Geisheide" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia (accessed on May 20, 2016)
- ^ Project study Weißes Venn - On the way into the future ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF). Regional 2016 . September 2014, accessed May 20, 2016.