Zweribach (nature reserve)

	"Zweribach" nature reserve and protected forest IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Bannwald Zweribach
location	St. Märgen and St. Peter in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Simonswald in the district of Emmendingen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
surface	95.5 ha
Identifier	3077
WDPA ID	82964
Geographical location	48 ° 2 ' N , 8 ° 6' E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '18 " N , 8 ° 5' 40" E
Setup date	2nd September 1969
administration	Regional council Freiburg

Zweribach is a nature reserve and a forest in the area of the Baden-Württemberg communities of St. Märgen, St. Peter and Simonswald.

Characteristics

The nature reserve was designated by ordinance of the then regional council of South Baden on September 2, 1969 and has a size of 95.5 hectares. Of these, around 45.9 hectares are in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district and around 49.6 hectares in the Emmendingen district. It is listed under the protected area number 3.077. The CDDA code for the nature reserve is 82964 and corresponds to the WDPA ID .

The somewhat smaller, but almost congruent with the NSG, protected forest is 76.1 hectares in size. It was set under the protected area number 1000010 by ordinance of February 20, 2004 by the Freiburg Forestry Directorate.

Location and description

Zweribach waterfall

The reserve is around 3.5 kilometers north of St. Märgen. It is a Karmulde open to the northeast with drainage to the Wildgutach Valley. The Zweribach and the Hirschbach plunge in waterfalls over the Karwand into the Simonswälder Valley .

The area is located in the natural area 154 - Southeastern Black Forest within the natural spatial main unit 15 - Black Forest . It borders on the protected landscape areas No. 3.15.031 St. Peter, St. Märgen (in the west) and No. 3.16.004 Simonswälder Tal (in the east) and is also part of the Southern Black Forest Nature Park .

Protection purpose

The main protection purpose is to secure the uninfluenced development of the respective forest ecosystems with their animal and plant species as well as fungi, as well as to guarantee the scientific observation of the development. This includes the protection of the habitats and communities that are located in the areas, change in the course of the self-dynamic development of the forest stands within the protected areas or arise through the self-dynamic development.

literature

Nature Conservation and Landscape Management Unit: Nature reserves in the Freiburg administrative region . Ed .: Regional Council Freiburg. 3. Edition. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5177-9 .
Wolf Hockenjos: Where wilderness arises. The Bannwald Zweriwald in the Black Forest . The small book publisher. 2015. ISBN 978-3-7650-8413-3

Web links

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

Ordinance, data evaluation sheet and map in the profile of the nature reserve in the protected area directory of the LUBW
Ordinance, data evaluation sheet and map in the profile of the ban forest in the protected area directory of the LUBW