Wildmoos (Gilching)
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Wild moss
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| location | Municipality Gilching , Starnberg , Bavaria | |
| surface | 45.15 ha | |
| WDPA ID | 82918 | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 7 ' N , 11 ° 13' E | |
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| Sea level | 571 m | |
| Setup date | 1979 | |
| administration | Starnberg district | |
The Wildmoos nature reserve is a nature reserve in the community of Gilching in the Starnberg district . At the same time, it is part of the landscape protection area "Western part of the district of Starnberg" and the FFH area "Moore and beech forests between Etterschlag and Fürstenfeldbruck".
history
Until the 1920s, the Wildmoos was a largely untouched rain bog with a peat thickness of up to four meters. In 1927 the drainage of the area began in order to be able to mine the peat, which is much sought after as a heating material . As a result, however, it turned out that the quality of the peat was unsuitable for heating, as the peat bricks shrank sharply after drying and crumbled into crumbles. The effort of cutting peat was only profitable in times of need and was discontinued around 1960. In order to preserve the bog habitat with its typical vegetation and the associated fauna, rewetting with the aim of renaturation is planned.
The nature reserve was placed under protection by the Starnberg District Office on August 27, 1979. In 2004, Natura 2000 , the European Union's network of protected areas, was recognized as an FFH area.
Geography and geology
The Wildmoos is located in the extreme northwest of the Starnberg district at an altitude of 571 m above sea level. NHN . In the north and east, together with the neighboring Görbelmoos, it is partly surrounded by steep moraine peaks . To the west it borders on the corridors of the Jexhof wasteland in the Fürstenfeldbruck district . The Kellerbach flows through the Wildmoos and runs through the protected area from its source in the northeast to the southwest.
After the retreat of the glaciers of the Würm Ice Age, the wild moss emerged as a muddy kettle . The area of 0.45 km² is embedded in the young moraine landscape of the “pre-alpine moor and hill country”.
Flora and fauna
The center of the wild moss consists of a light mountain pine and birch bog , the edge areas have a partly dense vegetation of bog sparks and bog birches . Some specimens of the shrub birch also grow here . It is a very rare glacial relic that is significant throughout Bavaria . On drier bog areas in the area of the former peat cuttings there is a lichen-rich heather vegetation , in more humid locations the original raised bog vegetation with round-leaved sundew , rosemary heather , scabbard cottongrass and the moss and bogberry . Plants that have become rare, such as the Siberian iris and the swallowwort gentian , now grow on the meadows in the peripheral areas . The endangered yellow lady's slipper , an orchid up to 50 cm in size, can still be found here.
The slow drainage that still exists in the wild moss poses a considerable threat not only to the raised bog vegetation, but also to amphibians and insects . The planned renaturation is for species that rely on suitable spawning waters, such as the yellow-bellied toad, which is threatened with extinction in our latitudes Great Moss Maiden, from the family of the sailing dragonflies , can be of great use.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ protected planet Wildmoos nature reserve
- ↑ protected planet Western part of the Starnberg district
- ↑ 7833-371 Moors and beech forests between Etterschlag and Fürstenfeldbruck. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Renaturation planning for the Wildmoos District Office Starnberg. Retrieved February 3, 2017
- ↑ Ordinance on the "Wildmoos" nature reserve, Starnberg District Office. Retrieved February 3, 2017
