Wormental

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Wormental nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Wormental nature reserve

Wormental nature reserve

location Werbach , Main-Tauber-Kreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface 19.2 ha
Identifier 1,060
WDPA ID 82943
Geographical location 49 ° 41 ′  N , 9 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 20 ″  E
Wormental (Baden-Württemberg)
Wormental
Setup date April 17, 1978
administration Regional Council Stuttgart

Wormental is a nature reserve in Werbach in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

By regulation of the regional council of Stuttgart on the nature reserve Wormental of April 17, 1978 a protected area with 9.7 hectares was designated. A more recent ordinance of 23 September 1994 extended the protected area to 19.2 hectares. The previous regulation expired at the same time.

Protection purpose

"The purpose of protection is

  • the preservation and restoration of a typical dry Franconian site with dry grass, limestone grasslands, warmth-loving forest communities and their borders, extensive orchards, fields with a high proportion of rare wild herb species, hedges, shrubbery and various stages of succession,
  • the improvement of the habitats of numerous rare, partly endangered and protected plant and animal species in dry and warm locations, in particular the invertebrate fauna, by restoring coherent, open areas,
  • the preservation of a hillside location with a largely space-effective, landscape-defining character ”( LUBW ).

Flora and fauna

It is a typical dry Franconian site with dry grass, lime grass, thermophilic forest communities and their fringes, extensive orchards, fields with a high proportion of wild herb species, hedges, bushes and various stages of succession. The restoration of coherent open areas is sought. The hillside has a character that shapes the landscape.

See also

literature

  • Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region. Updated new edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 , pp. 378-380 (Wormental).

Web links

Commons : Wormental nature reserve  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (ed.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 378-380 (Wormental).
  2. a b c State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Wormental . Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved July 27, 2018.