Meadows near Schwenningen

FFH area "Wiesen bei Schwenningen"
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location	Schwenningen , Sigmaringen district , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
Identifier	DE-7819-342
WDPA ID	555522030
Natura 2000 ID	DE7819342
FFH area	3.881 km²
Geographical location	48 ° 7 '  N , 9 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '42 "  N , 8 ° 59' 39"  E
Setup date	January 1, 2005
administration	Regional Council Tübingen
particularities	three sub-areas

The Wiesen bei Schwenningen area is a protected area (protected area identifier DE-7819-342) in the south of the German state registered by ordinance of January 1, 2005 by the Tübingen regional council in accordance with Directive 92/43 / EEC (Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive) Baden-Württemberg . With the ordinance of the regional council of Tübingen on the definition of areas of community importance of November 5, 2018, the protected area was established.

location

The three sub-areas of approximately 390 hectares large protected area "Meadows near Schwenningen" in the Upper Danube Nature Park includes natural area for High Schwabenalb . They are located in a ring around the community of Schwenningen , mostly in the north and northeast and in the west of the town center, on the Heuberg , the southwestern plateau of the Swabian Alb .

meaning

In the protected area, there are extremely valuable poor, lowland hay meadows in terms of flora and fauna . In terms of cultural history, these reflect the use of the Alb areas .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is the preservation of a varied landscape with a cave , hedges, field trees, small-scale dwarf shrub heaths, lime grasslands and mixed deciduous forests.

Habitat types

The following habitat types according to Annex I of the Habitats Directive occur in the area:

EU code	*	Habitat type (official name)	Short name
6210		Near-natural dry lime lawns and their stages of shrubbery (Festuco-Brometalia)	Lime grassland
6510		Lean lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)	Lean, lowland hay meadows
6520		Mountain hay meadows	Mountain hay meadows
8210		Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation	Limestone cliffs with crevice vegetation
8310		Caves that are not open to tourists	Caves and balms
9130		Woodruff beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum)	Woodruff beech forest

Habitat classes

Deciduous forest			4%
Mixed forest			4%
Coniferous forest			1 %
Moist and mesophilic grassland			85%
drained terrain			1 %
other farmland			5%

See also

• List of FFH areas in Baden-Württemberg

Web links

Commons : FFH area Wiesen bei Schwenningen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Standard data sheet for the FFH area "Wiesen bei Schwenningen"
• Profile of the FFH area  Wiesen bei Schwenningen in the protected area directory of the LUBW
• Regional Council Freiburg (Ed.): Management plan for the FFH area 7819-352 "Wiesen bei Schwenningen" . edited by the Institute for Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation Singen (ILN Singen). January 12, 2014 (70 pp., Baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).
• The protected area in the European Environment Agency (European Environment Agency); English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of the FFH area in the LUBW's list of protected areas
2. ↑ Regional Council Freiburg (Ed.): Management plan for the FFH area 7819-352 "Wiesen bei Schwenningen" . edited by the Institute for Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation Singen (ILN Singen). January 12, 2014 (70 pp., Baden-wuerttemberg.de [PDF]).