Windelberg

Windelberg IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
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location	North-west of Börger , south of Surwold
surface	16.3 ha
Identifier	NSG WE 028
WDPA ID	82924
Geographical location	52 ° 56 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 55 '42 "  N , 7 ° 30' 36"  E
Sea level	from 32 m to 36 m
Setup date	02/14/2009
administration	NLWKN

The nature reserve Windelberg is located directly northwest of the village in the municipality of Börger in the district of Emsland , Lower Saxony ,

Nature reserve

The Windelberg was placed under protection on January 18, 1938. The current ordinance on the nature reserve dates from January 30, 2009 and was issued by the Emsland district. The protected area has a size of 16.3 hectares and bears the statistical code "NSG WE 28". It belongs to the natural region of Ems-Hunte-Geest and Dümmer-Geestniederung.

According to the district of Emsland, it is placed under protection "for the preservation, care and development of the Windelberg as a habitat for animal and plant species in need of protection and as a landscape of particular rarity, uniqueness, diversity and outstanding beauty".

The nature reserve lies entirely within the Meppen shooting range used by the Wehrtechnischen Dienststelle für Waffen und Munitions (WTD 91).

nature and landscape

The protected area is located on a ground moraine ridge , the Hümmling . It is characterized by dry sandy soils. Due to the long-term use as heathland, podsoles have formed. With its sandy heaths , juniper bushes and oak forests , it documents forms of earlier landscape uses.

In the area are on these inland dunes dry sandy heathland with heather , gorse species such as English broom and Genista pilosa , blueberry , cranberry and crowberry present. In places, dry sand grass with silver grass and ostrich grass emerges. In the woods there are structurally rich juniper bushes and acidic oak forest that has emerged from coppice, formed by pedunculate oak.

• Plant species in the NSG Windelberg
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  Common heather

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  Crowberry

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  Hairy gorse

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  Silver grass

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  juniper

The promotion of these dune areas with the juniper and berry-rich heaths and the forest that has emerged from coppice management is particularly sought.

Other protected areas

In terms of area, the nature reserve is identical to FFH area 267 “Windelberg”.

literature

• Fritz Runge: The nature reserves of Westphalia and the former administrative district of Osnabrück . 4th edition, Münster 1982, page 305

Web links

• Nature reserve "Windelberg" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ordinance on the “Windelberg” nature reserve in the Börger community, Emsland district. (PDF; 47 kB) § 2. January 30, 2009, accessed on June 28, 2015 . 
2. ^ "Windelberg" nature reserve in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)