Wojaleite
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NSG Wojaleite
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| location | Oberkotzau , Rehau , Hof district , Bavaria | |
| surface | 28.88 hectares | |
| Identifier | NSG-00102.01 | |
| WDPA ID | 82934 | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 15 ' N , 11 ° 58' E | |
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| Setup date | 1976 | |
The Wojaleite is a nature reserve and geotope between Woja , a district of the town of Rehau , and Oberkotzau in the Upper Franconian district of Hof .
Location and geology
The Wojaleite extends west of Woja towards Oberkotzau and Haideck . The railway line Cheb – Oberkotzau crosses the area. The Wojaleite is a steep slope interspersed with serpentinite with pine trees to the right of the Schwesnitz , on the left bank is the also protected wooded Heidleite.
The serpentine train of the Wojaleite is designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as an important geotope (geotope number: 475R011). The serpentine train on the edge of the Münchberg plateau is a distinctive hardy that continues at the nearby Burgstall Haideck and further at the Blauer Fels and the Haidberg . This course describes the transition from the Münchberg gneiss mass to the Fichtelgebirge with a narrow band of Randamphibolite followed by the Phyllite - Prasinite series from the Neoproterozoic , where serpentinite, for example, also metamorphic eclogite and various minerals can be found.
Traces of pings and ditches are evidence of historical open-cast mining. The quarry on the outskirts of Wurlitz had been operating since 1886 to extract gravel for railway construction . The serpentinite with a color spectrum from green-blue to black-gray is described here as gray-green and greasy shiny. It is used as gravel because it is considered hostile to flora. Later sand was also extracted for roofing felt. The quarry is still active, since 1956 it has not been possible to extend it to the protected area.
Wojaleite
Serpentine rock
Wojaleite on the northeastern edge of the Münchberg gneiss mass
Plant community
A rare rock heather flora on serpentinite has been preserved in this nature reserve . The serpentine rock, which is rich in magnesium and iron , has preserved vegetation for many millennia that has completely disappeared elsewhere. It is a plant world that partly retreated into this area with its advancing glaciers during the last ice age, i.e. it has a pre-ice age character. More plants have moved here after a warm phase and subsequent cooling. Sulke emphasizes that this vegetation is about five times as old as other native plants. This relic has been under landscape protection since 1956 and nature protection since 1976. It is also a FFH area in the Natura 2000 ecological network . In this context, reference is also made to rare animals such as the crested newt. Pine trees were thinned in 2006 to expand the area .
The rare plants from the grass herb layer are assigned to the southern Alpine area and the northern Scandinavian area. The alpine area includes the stone or whitecot (Dianthus gratianopolitanus), the beach carnation (Armeria maritima subsp.Elongata), the blue-gray fescue (Festuca glauca), the serpentine striped fern (Asplenium cuneifolium), the Nordic striped fern (Asplenium septentrionale) , the Brown-green Spleenwort (also bastard Spleenwort, Asplenium adulterinum), the Schwarzstielige Spleenwort (Asplenium adjatum nigrum serpentini), the Sharp Mauerpfeffer (Sedum acre), the Real bedstraw (Galium verum), the Alpine thesium (Thesium alpinum), the Pigeon goiter (Silene cucubalus) and the alpine dwarf beech (also box-leaved finial , Polygala chamaebuxus). For Scandinavian area include the Greenland saxifrage (Saxifraga rosacea Moench), the heather (Erica), including the spring heather (Eica carnea), the cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), and the Shrubby finial (Polygala chamaebuxus).
Peony
Greenland saxifrage
Serpentinite Striped Fern
Box-leaved finial
literature
- Friedrich Müller: Bavaria's rich corner . Special edition Gondrom Verlag 1991. pp. 151–159.
- Karl Sulke: The Wojaleite and its flora . In: Schwarzenbacher Official Journal of June 14, 1969.
Web links
- Documentation of the nature reserve of the government of Upper Franconia
- Geotop Serpentinitzug W von Wurlitz at the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (accessed on March 22, 2020).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronald Dietel: In the Wojaleite the pine trees fall , article in the Frankenpost from December 20, 2006.
