Großes Moor (near Becklingen)

IUCN Category IV - Habitat-/Species Management Area

Wiedervernässungsfläche in Großenmoor at Becklingen

The nature reserve " Great Moor at Becklingen " has a size of 850 hectares, of which 666 ha are located in the district of Celle, and 184 ha in the district Heidekreis. Since 16 December 1985, the area is under protection. An area of ​​776.6 ha is designated as a conservation area. The Moor is located in the Lüneburg Heath, just south of Wietzendorf and east of Becklingen, a district of the city of Bergen. The Meiss has its headwaters in this bog.

Development

The original swamp was drained in the 1950s and largely converted to grassland, to create smaller rural settlements here. The state of Lower Saxony has now acquired large areas. By damming the original moorland to be created again. The receiving stream, which once were dug for large-scale drainage of the marshes have been impounded by dams again. Large areas of the nature reserve were entkusselt. Partial forest-like areas of trees, mainly pine and birch were freed. In the nature reserve there is a plantation of cultivated blueberries. These neophytes have been spreading outside the plantation and prepare problems here, as well as black cherry, which has been widespread in the area.

Fauna and Flora

Large areas of the bog are covered by blue moor grass. However, the nature reserve also offers various, sometimes rare and protected plants and animals area. At plants can be found here, for example, the fern, the White beak-sedge, Schei Diges cotton grass, cotton grass Rosebay, Purgier - Lein, crowberry, bog bilberries and rosemary. The existence of the two-bladed butterfly orchid has become widespread.

In the area of ​​the moor frog and the high moorland Bluebird lives. The crane draws here on his boys, the nightjar, the meadow pipit, the yellowhammer, lapwing and snipe have settled here. Due to the remoteness provides the moor a significant habitat for threatened or endangered, highly susceptible to faults grouse. Along with the neighboring and mostly contiguous areas around the military training grounds Munster and mountains, nature reserve Lueneburg Heath, the shooting Unterluess the company Rheinmetall and the Great Heath at Unterluess the Kiehn Moor and Brambosteler Moor, the moors at Sittingbourne, the Ostenholzer Moor, the Meißendorfer ponds and Bannetzer Moor houses of this part of the Lüneburg Heath, the largest contiguous Birkhuhnbestand the Central European lowlands.

• Great Moor at Becklingen

Former dry inzw defined drainage ditch from the bog

Dammed outfall

Surface with purple moor grass, between culture blueberry bushes

Area in the bog with White beak-sedge

The White beak-sedge

The Lesser Butterfly Orchid or White

Crane couple with two young boys at the edge of the moor

Highmoorpath Blue on heather moorland in