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Eppendorfer Moor Nature Reserve

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Eppendorfer Moor Nature Reserve

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    1. Rathenau Bridge – Alster Bay in Hamburg loop from Lattenkamp (Sporthalle)

    5.40km

    01:22

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    2. Hayns Park Meadow – Eppendorfer Mill Pond loop from Hudtwalckerstraße

    11.2km

    02:50

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    Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    3. Swimming spot in Eppendorfer Moor loop from Alsterdorf

    4.35km

    01:07

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    May 18, 2020

    A nature to switch off.

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      February 10, 2020

      The Eppendorfer Moor is particularly characterized by a diverse, richly structured moor complex. Here alternate reed reed beds, Schlankseggen-Ried, Glockenheide-Gesellschaft with pipe grass and willow-deciduous shrubbery alternate in a small space. Marsh fern and royal fern, water feather, swamp blood eye, bell heather, lung gentian and gag shrub grow here. The bog provides a habitat for many breeding bird species. In the past ten years, pygmy divers, kingfisher, gray flycatcher, green woodpecker, nuthatch and marsh tit have been identified as breeding birds: buzzards and hawks have also been sighted.

      Various bat species have been mapped in the area around the central pond. The Eppendorfer Moor is a richly structured habitat, especially for butterflies: in 1989, 641 species, including 78 from the Red List, were identified here. The central low moor area is a habitat for 25 different dragonfly species. There are small but stable occurrences of the rare moor frog, the grass and water frog and the common toad on site. The newt has also been observed here.

      At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, the Botanical State Institute in Hamburg received a gold medal for an exhibition on the flora of the Eppendorfer Moor. Botanical recordings of the past centuries impressively prove the former richness of the Eppendorfer Moors in moor plants and orchids. The Hamburg botanist Dreves and his Berlin colleague Hayne discovered the bog for botany in 1798. The middle sundew (Drosera intermedia) was described by Hayne as new for science, with the Eppendorfer Moor as "locus classicus" of this kind. But even today the protected area has a high status as a habitat for moor-typical animal and plant species - no other German Big city has such a centrally located nature reserve.

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        January 21, 2024

        Nice little NSG with some walking paths.

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