Nsg Siekbachtal

Summary

The Siekbachtal Nature Reserve protects a species-rich stream valley system with diverse habitats like near-natural streams, forests, wet, and sparse meadows. It provides a home for rare plants and animals like the Stripe-winged Grasshopper.

Description

The Siekbachtal Nature Reserve preserves a regionally significant stream valley system in the Bösingfelder Becken. It is a valuable habitat for rare and endangered animal and plant species. Here you will find near-natural stream courses, spring areas, and remnants of riparian forests. Slope, deciduous, and ravine forests, including wood millet and wavy hair-grass beech forests, characterize the landscape. This is complemented by diverse grasslands such as sparse pastures, matgrass swards, wet and damp grasslands, as well as near-natural ponds and structurally rich hedges and orchards. The area serves as a refuge for communities of sparse and damp grasslands. It holds particular importance for endangered species like the Marsh Violet, Broad-leaved Marsh Orchid, European White Elm, Wych Elm, and the Stripe-winged Grasshopper. It is also a crucial area for amphibians and dragonflies. Its unique character, rarity, and the outstanding beauty of the forest-grassland valley system with high structural diversity make it a natural jewel worthy of protection.