Wollingster See and Randmoore

Wollingster lake
Lake Wollingst with vegetation on the banks
Geographical location	Beverstedt , Cuxhaven district , Lower Saxony
Drain	Dohrener Bach
Location close to the shore	Beverstedt , Bremerhaven
Data
Coordinates	53 ° 27 '38 "  N , 8 ° 51' 58"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '38 "  N , 8 ° 51' 58"  E
Altitude above sea level	15.3 m
surface	4.5 ha
length	300 m
width	180 m
Maximum depth	14.5 m
particularities	Nature reserve

Wollingster See and Randmoore is a nature reserve in the Lower Saxony municipality of Beverstedt in the district of Cuxhaven .

description

The nature reserve is 117  hectares . Most of it is part of the FFH area " Wollingster See mit Randmooren". The area has been a nature reserve since September 17, 2010. In March 1962, the 9 hectare former “Wollingster See” nature reserve, designated NSG LÜ 012, was added to the nature reserve. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Cuxhaven, which manages the nature reserve under the registration number NSG CUX-001. The lake had already been placed under nature protection in 1932. Part of the current protected area also includes the “Osterndorfer Moor” protected landscape area of ​​around 900 hectares, which was designated in 1973 and almost completely surrounds the nature reserve.

The nature reserve is located northeast of Beverstedt. It includes the Wollingst lake and its shore zone in the north of the protected area and the Beverstedter Moor south of the lake and parts of the Osterndorfer Moor, both high moor areas.

The lake is embedded in a geest landscape shaped by the Saale Glaciation or the Vistula Glaciation. Its origin is not clearly understood. It can be an ice age strudel kolk . Recent studies assume that it is a pingo , in whose hollow form water could collect after the ice thawed.

The water quality of Lake Wollingst is oligotrophic . In it are beach Ling and water lobelia . The bream was also native here, but was last detected at the beginning of the 21st century. Rushes and reeds settle on the shores of the lake. In the transition area to the moorland south of Lake Wollingst See, dwarf shrub heaths settle on sandy soil.

The moor areas are mostly drained and changed by peat cutting. They are mostly overgrown with birch-pine-bog forests. On the non-forested areas, you can find raised bog vegetation, bog heather and swinging lawns . The moor areas are to be renatured by rewetting . The peripheral areas of the moor are mainly used as grassland for agriculture, the heather areas in the peripheral areas are grazed with moorland snakes and thus kept free of trees. The nature reserve is the habitat of crane , short-eared owl , adder , smooth snake , grass snake , forest lizard and moor frog . The Wollingster See is an important habitat for mayflies , mosquitoes and dragonflies . The sandy areas around the lake are habitat for sand bees and parasitic wasps as well as various beetles such as the tiger beetle .

The moorland is drained to the Dohrener Bach, a tributary of the Lune , and to the Frelsdorfer Mühlenbach, a tributary of the Geeste .

North of the lake is a campsite on the edge of the nature reserve. There is a 1.5 km long and signposted hiking trail around Lake Wollingster.

The nature reserve is almost completely surrounded by agricultural land. In the east it borders on a farm road. The route of the planned A 20 coastal motorway between Westerstede and Drochtersen runs only a few hundred meters north of the nature reserve.

See also

• List of lakes in Lower Saxony

literature

• Peter Raap : hiking, singing and experiencing nature. The Wollingst lake and the migration of birds . In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt , Mitteilungsblatt der Männer vom Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermündung e. V. , No. 654, June 2004, pp. 1–2 ( PDF , 4.2 MB).
• Peter Raap: hiking, folk dancing, nature at Lake Wollingster. Forty years ago, the longtime chairman of the Friends of Nature Association, Heinrich Frey, died . In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt , Mitteilungsblatt der Männer vom Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermündung e. V., No. 719, November 2009, pp. 3–4 ( PDF , 940 MB).

Web links

Commons : Wollingster See and Randmoore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wollingster See , Förderverein Wollingster See e. V. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Concept for the protection of the Wollingster See , Samtgemeinde Beverstedt. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
3. ↑ Ordinance on the “Wollingster See and Randmoore” nature reserve, Section 2 (1) , Official Gazette for the Cuxhaven district, September 16, 2010, Cuxhaven district (PDF, 1.98 MB). Retrieved May 17, 2011.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Der Wollingster See , LBEG State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (PDF; 248 kB). Retrieved May 17, 2011.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Eike Rachor: The Wollingster See. In: News of the Marschenrat to promote research in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea. Marschenrat for the promotion of research in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea e. V., Issue 53/2016, ISSN  0931-5373 , pp. 59-61. ( PDF file , 2.4 MB). Retrieved January 12, 2017.
6. ↑ Wollingster See circular hiking trail ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), experience nature in Lower Saxony.
7. ↑ Routing of the A 20 according to the route definition of June 25, 2010 , overview map of the particular line, road construction administration of the State of Lower Saxony. Retrieved May 17, 2011.