Meadows at Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald

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Forest and meadows - view from the hill of friendship in the middle of the nature reserve

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 21 ″  E

Relief map: Rhineland-Palatinate
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Meadows at Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald​
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Rhineland-Palatinate

Wiesen am Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald is the name of a Rhineland-Palatinate nature reserve of 533 hectares in the city of Mainz and in the Mainz-Bingen district . It includes parts of the Finthen district of the city of Mainz , the city of Ingelheim am Rhein and parts of the Essenheim and Ober-Olm districts . The nature reserve consists of the forest areas of the Ober-Olm Forest including its clearings and ponds as well as the dry and semi-dry meadows at the Layenhof in Mainz . In 2017 it was designated as a nature reserve by the Structural and Permits Directorate South (SGD South).

Protection purpose

The Rhineland-Palatinate Environment Minister Höfken stated at the inauguration of the nature reserve that the new nature reserve offers endangered animal and plant species such as the green woodpecker , the black kite and the Bechstein bat an undisturbed habitat . The location-typical poor or scattered fruit meadows as well as native deciduous forests are ideal retreats for around 110 ground beetles and around 280 butterfly species and thus contribute to the preservation of biodiversity .

The SGD Süd sees the protection purpose in the area of ​​the meadows at Layenhof in particular in the maintenance, development and restoration of rough meadows, semi-dry, ostrich, dry silicate and bristle grass lawns as well as orchards and poor pastures. Likewise, the protection purpose lies in the maintenance and development of adjacent forests, tree hedges, bushes and woody structures. Both serve as the location and habitat of typical, rare and endangered wild plants and animals and their communities.

In the area of ​​the Ober-Olm Forest, which is also a Natura 2000 area, the protection purpose is the preservation and restoration of local deciduous forest, a small-scale, species-rich nebulas, mowing and poor meadows as well as heather and small bodies of water. The protection purpose also lies in the maintenance or restoration of a favorable conservation status for the habitat type "dry grass" with rich orchids and grass grass as well as dry heather, lowland hay meadows and a woodruff beech forest . In the reforestation area west of the Ober-Olm Forest, the focus is on the development and restoration of local deciduous forest. All locations serve to preserve endangered wild plant species and also rare or endangered wild animal species such as the stag beetle and the Bechstein's bat.

particularities

The Mainz-Finthen airfield is located in the protected area , and its continued "proper use" is to be guaranteed. The protective provisions do not apply to the area currently used by the military. There they only come into force when the military use ends. A section of the protected area is currently being used by the US armed forces as a training site in Mainz-Finthen.

See also

Web links

Commons : Nature reserve Wiesen am Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hans-Helmut Ludewig: On the ground beetle fauna of the airfield at Layenhof near Mainz-Finthen . In: Natural History Museum and Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (ed.): Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv, Volume 54, Mainz 2017, Pages 229–239

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SGD Süd: SGD Süd identifies the nature reserve "Wiesen am Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald" , February 7, 2017, accessed on April 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b State capital Mainz: Press release on the inauguration of the nature reserve Wiesen am Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald , June 20, 2017, accessed on April 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b AZ Mainz: SGD Süd identifies the nature reserve “Wiesen am Layenhof - Ober-Olmer Wald” , February 8, 2017, accessed on April 1, 2018.