Zickeritzer bush
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 27 " N , 11 ° 44 ′ 32" E
The Zickeritzer Busch is a nature reserve in the town of Könnern in the Salzland district in Saxony-Anhalt .
The nature reserve with the registration number NSG 0086 is around 33 hectares in size. It is almost entirely part of the FFH area "Saale breakthrough in Rothenburg" and mostly from the conservation area surrounded "Saale". The area has been under protection since May 1, 1961 (date of regulation: March 30, 1961). The responsible lower nature conservation authority is the Salzlandkreis.
The nature reserve is located west of Rothenburg in the Lower Saale Valley Nature Park on the left bank of the Saale in the area of its breakthrough valley . It protects a wooded steep slope on the Saale, exposed in eastern directions, with part of a side valley on the Saalberg.
The forest communities are dominated by sessile oak and hornbeam forests . In the transition to the arable land on the plateau areas, bushes with field elm and privet and sloe bushes grow. Besides are locust immigrated to the bitch Ritzer bush.
Dry grass and rocky corridors are interspersed in the forests, but they are almost completely covered with bushes. The remains of the lawn companies are of Traubengamander - melica ciliata corridors, feather grass -Steppenrasen or Fiederzwenken shaped lawn.
The nature reserve is the habitat of numerous breeding birds , including the goshawk , tawny owl , stock dove , wryneck , red-backed killer and bunting .
In the side valley, a state road runs between Brucke and Zickeritz through the nature reserve.
