Wernershöhe (nature reserve)

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NSG Wernershöhe

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Bushes and fields in the NSG Wernershöhe (2017)

Bushes and fields in the NSG Wernershöhe (2017)

location Sibbesse , Hildesheim district , Lower Saxony , Germany
surface 87 hectares
Identifier NSG HA 168
WDPA ID 166251
Natura 2000 ID DE-3924-301
FFH area 85.1 ha
Geographical location 52 ° 1 '  N , 9 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '21 "  N , 9 ° 54' 4"  E
Wernershöhe (nature reserve) (Lower Saxony)
Wernershöhe (nature reserve)
Sea level from 205 m to 290 m
Setup date June 9, 1994
administration NLWKN

The Wernershöhe is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipality of Sibbesse in the Hildesheim district .

The nature reserve with the sign NSG HA 168 is almost completely part of the FFH area "Seven Mountains, Foothills". In the west it borders on the nature reserve " dry habitats - Seven mountains, foothills ," the north and south to the conservation area "Sackwald". The area has been a nature reserve since June 9, 1994. On December 28, 2017, a large part of the protected area in the newly designated nature reserve "Arid habitats - seven mountains, foothills" opened. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Hildesheim district.

The nature reserve is located northeast of Alfeld (Leine) on the Wernershöhe, a hill in the foothills on the eastern edge of the Alfelder Bergland . It protects a forest-free, mostly extensively arable plateau on shallow limestone soils . The arable land are characterized in particular by the arable wildkraut companies from. In the northeast of the nature reserve of "juniper drift" fragments are in the range orchids - and gentian rich chalk grasslands and wood-pastures to find. Unused coppice forests and oak-hornbeam forests as well as mixed forests with old hat trees can be found in the edge areas of the nature reserve, which is mainly surrounded by forest areas .

The nature reserve preserves a section of a type of cultural landscape that used to be widespread in the low mountain range , with its accompanying flora and fauna, which are sometimes highly endangered . Since the mid-1980s, wild herb protection has been carried out here on the initiative of the Paul Feindt Foundation of the Ornithological Association of Hildesheim (OVH), which looks after the nature reserve. For this purpose, the crop rotation has been adjusted ( red clover , oats - barley , rye , rye - vetches ) so that the use provides satisfactory yields and at the same time the number of arable herbs has increased significantly. Red clover and vetches are used to produce seeds and green manure , and the clover is also used to produce silage .

Several Red List species can be found here every year , including annual ziest , small woman's mirror , field buttercup , furrowed and toothed lamb's lettuce , Venus comb , early speedwell , spring tooth rust , barbarian spur , narrow-leaved hollow tooth , field dog chamomile , field Stone seeds , Genevan Günsel , field red , cornflower , pale earth smoke , field light carnation , field adhesive umbels , green-flowered bedstraw and finch seed . On the Wernershöhe, the largest protected area for field wild herbs in Germany, there are more rare Kalkacker wild herbs than anywhere else in Lower Saxony.

  • Stony arable land in the NSG

  • Weed-rich wheat crop in the NSG

  • Information board for wild herb protection on the Wernershöhe

literature

Web links

Commons : Wernershöhe nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Heinze: Landscape wants to be fed. Hof Luna creates living spaces , Lebendige Erde 2/2001, Verlag Lebendige Erde. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  2. ^ Heinrich Hofmeister: Wild herb protection on the Wernershöhe (district of Hildesheim) in 2011 , Paul Feindt Foundation (PDF file, 1.6 MB). Retrieved on
  3. ↑ Approaches to sustainably safeguarding botanical biodiversity in protective fields - a task for organic farms? . Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ Approaches to sustainably safeguarding botanical biodiversity in protective fields - a task for organic farms? , 11th Scientific Conference on Organic Farming. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  5. ↑ Silvia Huber, Nicole Krüger, Rainer Oppermann: Agriculture creates diversity. Agriculture that promotes nature in practice. , Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , October 2008 (PDF file, 12.6 MB). Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  6. ↑ Heinrich Hofmeister: 20 years of wild herb protection on the Wernershöhe (district of Hildesheim) , 20 years of wild weed protection in Lower Saxony, Information Service Lower Saxony, Issue 2/07, Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  7. ↑ Bernd Galland: Wild herb protection in the NSG Wernershöhe (district of Hildesheim) in 2014 , Paul Feindt Foundation (PDF file, 763 kB). Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Heinrich Hofmeister: The Wernershöhe near Alfeld - protected area for rare and endangered wild herbs , Paul Feindt Foundation. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  9. ↑ 60 botanists meet in Sack for the symposium - and are enthusiastic about the many rare plants. Wild herbs in abundance , Kehrwieder am Sunday, July 15, 2012, p. 13.