MeiÃŸendorf Lakes and Bannetze Moor

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The Meißendorf Lakes with the Bannetzer Moor are a nature reserve and bird sanctuary of national importance on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath. The special importance of the NSG is underscored by the recognition as a nature conservation project of the Federation. The name has the area of the lying respectively in the vicinity of small towns Meißendorf and Bannetze.

3.1 Breeding Birds
3.2 visiting birds
3.3 fish
3.4 plants
3.5 Other

Geography

The nature reserve Meißendorf Lakes / Bannetzer Moor is located about 7 km northwest of the community Winsen at all, and about 40 km north of Hanover. To the north it borders Ostenholzer Moor almost immediately adjacent to the nature reserve, the Meiße runs between the Ostenholzer Moor and the Meißendorfer ponds. A few kilometers south of the area extending the Allertal. The nature reserve with its once marshy meadows is scenic part of the Ostenholzer Moores. The landscape was glacially as glacial valley of the Aller. Towards the end of the Ice Age blew strong winds on a dune at the northern edge of the valley wall, so that the light coming from the north water could not drain and formed a wide -area Moor.

Origin and history

The Gut Sunder has its origin from a Freihofstraße the monastery of St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, with the church as a landlord. The Lüneburg Chancellor on Celler Hof, Baltasar clip was invested in 1548 by Abbot Herbold from St. Michael monastery with the possessions of the monastery in Meißendorf. The moved the court from the place Meißendorf near his lands. This comes from the origin of the name: separately, special, sunder. In a place surrounded by ditches, with small ponds, a mansion built in the style representative of Celler town houses. After the estate had repeatedly changed hands, purchased in 1752 Gottlieb Ludewig von Schrader (according to inscription on his grave stone: November 8th, 1695 *, † December 23, 1760, Royal Gr.Br. and Kurf Br.Lün Councilor. .. ) Sunder. In 1881 a family cemetery was north-west of the estate, in the forest, at the Meiße created, which has been preserved until today. 1977 had to sell the estate for financial reasons, the family of Schrader. 1980 was acquired by the German Association for Bird Protection ( DBV) (now NABU) together with the federal government, and thanks to the financial support of IBM, a large part of the land to ensure the preservation of this important wetland habitat. NABU National Association of Lower Saxony, where it maintains now a regional nature center with seminar The mansion is now a listed building and is considered the finest secular building the heath.

Aquaculture

In 1881 the then owner of the goods Sunder, Ernst von Schrader began with fish farming. It 51 larger and smaller ponds were created on the heath and moorland. The Meiss, a small river which flows for testicular Hagen in the Aller, was channeled and fed since the ponds with water. In 1892 he sat in his oldest pond of 2 ha, 10,000 carp eggs one. It was the largest carp breeding in northern Germany. In the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, presented a extensive fish farming for the most part. The Meiße was partially renatured. In the northwest of the goods Sunder the Meiße again today its old run.

Geography, fauna and flora

The overall Meißendorf Lakes / Bannetzer Moor comprises 815 hectares, while the water itself, with 80 species of fish ponds is about 350 hectares. It thus forms the largest water countryside in the Lüneburg Heath. The nature reserve comprises:

Pond areas in different successional stages,
Parts of the Meißeniederung with meadows and alder forests,
With pine -lined valley sand areas in the north and east,
Degenerate and cultivated areas of Bannetzer Moores with even small-scale existing raised bog remnants,
Wide covered exclusively by Gagelstrauch areas of marshland.

In the pond area which is particularly known for the rich bird life, were about 130 breeding bird species, of which about 40 endangered in their existence, and over 60 species of birds rest are detected. In addition, there live about 40 Dragonfly and over 400 species of butterflies. The area wins, breeding ground, in the fall as a resting and sleeping place, the cranes in importance since some ponds are accumulated only flat. The holdings are continually increasing. It up to 100 resting cranes were already counted that probably come from nearby breeding areas of the training area mountains or the South Heath. The Eagle is the first time in 1995 returned to the area. Between 1997 and 2005, 14 young eagles were reared successfully in the guarded by conservationists Horst. In addition to the Meißendorfer ponds the eagle uses the lying near Ostenholzer Moor and the military training area mountains as a hunting ground.

Breeding birds

One can find, for example, eagles, osprey, Sedge Warbler, Bittern, Garganey, lapwing and the corncrake, to name but those who are on the Red List of endangered species or high risk. But here also as rare birds, such as kingfishers, cranes, Beutelmeise, Little Grebe, Water Rail, Reed Warbler, Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Grey Goose, Gadwall, Pochard, Barn Owl, Black-headed Gull, Marsh Harrier, Bleßralle, Shoveler, Sparrowhawk and Red Kite, have their breeding grounds.

Visiting birds

Again, we find numerous birds that are listed on it Red List. Sandpiper, Ruff, Redshank, Black Stork, Common Merganser and Alpine beach runners. In addition, Siskins, Water Pipit, Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan, Harrier, Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, Smew, Common Gull, Wigeon, Pintail, Black Tern, Common Crossbill and Spotted Redshank.

Pisces

In the ponds and streams to swim: pike, carp, tench, roach, bream, rudd, crucian carp, bream, ruffe, bitterling, eel, perch, three-spined stickleback, dwarf stickleback, catfish, loach, brook trout, gudgeon, brook lamprey.

Plant

On a pond dam of bog myrtle, which is on the red list of endangered plant species grow. At another, partly protected plants can be found here: Teichrose, bog birch, crab claw, bittersweet nightshade, Mean water hose, dwarf bur reed, Straußblütiger loosestrife, marsh yarrow, Branched bur-reed, water hemlock (very toxic ), Sechsmänniges waterwort, swamp iris, Wasserdost.

Others

The in Germany very rare and shy otter, which was almost exterminated here, settled again. In protected amphibians and reptiles, we find grass snake, grass frog, marsh frog, spadefoot toad, moor frog and great crested newt. The endangered in Germany in nature Two Striped source spinster living in the area.

Tourism

To the 35-hectare Hüttensee which projects into the nature reserve, but not part of the protected area itself, a 4.6 km loop trail has been created, a number of rare bird species can be observed from the off. Many bird watchers from all over the world visit this area every year. On the edge of the hut lake is a campsite. NABU Gut Sunder with its hiking trails and marked his trail is always open. The Infoshop and the exhibition of NABU Wildtiernis opens from April to October after posting.

At the Meißendorfer ponds In 1948, the first feature film of the famous nature filmmaker Heinz Sielmann ( " Song of the Wild ").

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