Wittmoor nature reserve

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Wittmoor nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

NSG Wittmoor in Hamburg

NSG Wittmoor in Hamburg

location Schleswig-Holstein , Germany
surface 106 ha
Identifier NSG No. ##
WDPA ID 82931
Geographical location 53 ° 42 '  N , 10 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '6 "  N , 10 ° 4' 12"  E
Wittmoor nature reserve (Schleswig-Holstein)
Wittmoor nature reserve
administration LLUR

The nature reserve Wittmoor (Low German for white moor ) is located in the north of Hamburg in the districts of Duvenstedt and Lemsahl-Mellingstedt . The high moor extends to Glashütte , a district of Norderstedt in Schleswig-Holstein . It was used for peat extraction until 1958 and has been a nature reserve since February 21, 1978 . On the embankment of the old Lorenbahn , a hiking trail leads through the renatured and dammed up moor. Early historical plank embankments led across the Wittmoor.

Parts of the nature reserve on the Hamburg part of the reserve area are part of the FFH area of the same name . The nature reserve on the Schleswig-Holstein part is congruent with the FFH area of ​​the same name.

Emergence

The Wittmoor was created by carving out a glacier tongue in the Vistula Ice Age . Originally a fen , it grew into a raised moor over the millennia. The peat extraction and the lowering of the water table threatened the moor. In 1978, when the damming began and the area was designated a nature reserve, renaturation began: the birch trees , which had now become widespread , died and the development of the bog began again.

The "white moor" is a watershed , the Mellingbek drains the moor to the south and the Wittmoorgraben to the northeast.

history

At least two plank paths led across the Wittmoor as early historical traffic routes in the swampy area, the older path dates to around 330 AD and the second, about 500 m to the north, in the 7th century .

From April to October 1933 one of the first National Socialist concentration camps was located in Wittmoor . Today two memorial stones commemorate the Wittmoor concentration camp : one on the Schleswig-Holstein side of the moor ( → Lage ), the other is on Hamburg soil ( → Lage ). There is also a memorial stele with an inscription at the site of the former concentration camp on Bundesstrasse 432 (Segeberger Chaussee 310, → Lage ).

For a long time the moor was the private property of the Tangstedt estate.

Individual evidence

  1. 2226307 Wittmoor.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  2. 2326301 Wittmoor.  (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  3. Angelika Rosenfeld  : Alstertal-Lexikon Historisches Handbuch, DOBU Verlag , 2009, p. 189
  4. Angelika Rosenfeld: Alstertal-Lexikon Historisches Handbuch, DOBU Verlag, 2009, p. 189

Web links

Commons : Wittmoor  - collection of images, videos and audio files