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Gießen District

Breungeshainer Heide Raised Bog

Natural Monuments

Gießen District

Breungeshainer Heide Raised Bog

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Breungeshainer Heide Raised Bog

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In der Breungeshainer Heide

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Location: Schotten, Vogelsbergkreis, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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Wolfram/Ts. 🇺🇦

May 22, 2020

The high moor in the Breungeshainer Heide nature reserve is a special rarity not only for the Vogelsberg, but for all of Hesse. Because apart from the Red Moor in the Rhön there is no other high moor in Hesse!

Here on the edge of the four-hectare moor area, several information boards provide very interesting information and you can also see the moor area quite well from here.

You can find more information here: rp-giessen.hessen.de/der-breungeshainer-heide

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JR56

October 6, 2023

The "Breungeshainer Heide" is located in the Hoher Vogelsberg at an altitude of 720 meters near its highest elevation, the Taufstein. The nature reserve includes deciduous, coniferous, and scree forests, a raised bog, and meadow areas with diverse, floristically outstanding, and rare plant communities.
In addition to smaller, predominantly beech forests and reforested spruce stands, the "Breungeshainer Heide" also features small, moist sycamore and alder forests. In addition, there are also heaps of weathered basalt rock, on which individual wych elms have settled.
The raised bog, which was severely damaged by previous peat extraction and drainage, is home to small remnants of the critically endangered, carnivorous plant sundew, rare mosses, sedge communities, and a Carpathian birch forest.
The botanical diversity of the grassland areas is also exceptional
and is described in the literature as being of supra-regional importance.
This is due to the small-scale variations in soil types,
which create extremely variable site conditions for many plant communities,
such as dry matgrass grasslands, moist moor grass meadows, and wet brown sedge marsh communities. Numerous endangered and particularly protected plants occur here in a very small area, such as arnica or
the various-leaved spear thistle, which is the only occurrence in Hesse.

From a faunistic perspective, the "Breungeshainer Heide" is a regionally important
breeding area for several critically endangered bird species and a valuable habitat
for numerous insect species adapted to the forest-moor-meadow complex,
especially butterflies and grasshoppers.

rp-giessen.hessen.de/In-der-Breungeshainer-Heide

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Location: Schotten, Vogelsbergkreis, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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