Wurmberg (nature reserve)

Wurmberg IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Wurmberg Quarry and Great Cliff
location	North of Braunlage , Goslar district , Lower Saxony
surface	183 ha
Identifier	BR NSG 140
WDPA ID	378384
Geographical location	51 ° 45 '  N , 10 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '53 "  N , 10 ° 36' 30"  E
Sea level	from 600 m to 850 m
Setup date	October 26, 2006
administration	NLWKN

The Wurmberg is a 183  hectare , two-part nature reserve (NSG no .: BR  140) on the Wurmberg in the urban area of Braunlage in Lower Saxony . The area has been a nature reserve since October 26, 2006. The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the district of Goslar .

Geographical location

The nature reserve, which consists of its northern and southern parts, is located in the Upper Harz within the Harz Nature Park, north-north-west to north of Braunlage on the west and south-west slopes of the Wurmberg. While its northern part borders the Harz National Park in the west and north , its southern part only joins this park in the west. Mostly along this park boundary, the northern part in the west is touched by the Große Bode , the left source brook of the Warmen Bode , which in turn touches the southern part in the southwest at the Lower Bodefall; the Upper Bodefall is located on the Große Bode a little west of the southern part. The Wurmberg cable car runs east past the southern section . To the west of the middle station on the eastern edge of the southern part is the toboggan house and in the southern part are the Große Wurmbergklippe (Great Cliff) and the Wurmbergsteinbruch . To the northwest of the northern part lies the Rote Bruch as a neighbor of the Oder Bruch. The Brockenwegschanzen are located directly southeast of the southern part .

description

In the "Wurmberg" nature reserve, parts of the " Upper Harz " nature reserve, which was designated April 10, 1954, have been dissolved. For other parts of the "Oberharz" nature reserve on the Wurmberg as well as for the "Eckerstaumauer" sub-areas on the Eckertalsperre and "Kellwasser" west of Torfhaus , the nature conservation status has been revoked. They have risen in the "Harz (district of Goslar)" conservation area . In the area of ​​the Wurmberg, an expansion of tourist use is planned.

The reserve is predominantly of spruce shaped stocks, which here instead of the naturally occurring deciduous and mixed forests falter. In addition, small-scaled spruce swamp forests on drained high- and transition bogs to find. In the summer of 2020, drainage ditches were closed in parts of the moors in order to hold back water and thus wet the moors. Along streams with their source areas falter alder - ash forests and pastures -Sumpfgebüsche. The remote spruce forests are to be developed into semi-natural deciduous and mixed forests.

In the nature reserve there are rocks, rock complexes and cliffs (such as the Great Cliff) as well as natural block and scree slopes . Lichen , willow and dwarf shrubs such as blueberries and heather grow here . Also included in the nature reserve is the abandoned Wurmberg quarry below the "Great Cliff", in which Wurmberg granite was extracted.

There are several hiking trails on the Wurmberg, some of which also lead through the nature reserve.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ Ordinance on the “Wurmberg” nature reserve , Goslar district, October 12, 2006. Accessed on June 14, 2012.
3. ↑ Ralf Kirnse: The nature reserve on the Wurmberg should give way to the ski slope , Braunschweiger Zeitung , July 11, 2005. Accessed on June 14, 2012.
4. ↑ Michael Rudolph: Landesforsten renaturate a forest moor on the Wurmberg , Lower Saxony State Forests, July 3, 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
5. ↑ Hiking as a new feel-good factor ( memento from June 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Wurmberg-Alm.