ベーリンゲン地区の天然記念物・トップ20

Birkensee近くの湿原にかかる長い木製の遊歩道。一見すると簡単にハイキングできるような風景ですが、板の間から見える景色は、水の中や深い湿原の上にいることを教えてくれます。

Today a protected natural monument and important local recreation area, it was once a fire-fighting water reservoir, later it served as an ice lake for breweries and as a body of water for fish farming.

We're particularly fond of the juniper heath. Even the best sauerkraut doesn't taste good without juniper berries. Here, the berries are plentiful.

Interesting work of art with changing "content" and appearance. That's why it's worth checking back here again and again.

The nest is currently empty

• The Birkensee used to serve as a watering hole for grazing animals. At the beginning of the 20th century, the moor was to be drained and drainage channels were built. The water level sank and the lake shrank. In the 1970s, people thought better of it: because they wanted to preserve the moor, the drainage ditches were filled in again. In the following years, a boardwalk was also built to control the flow of visitors and prevent the many hikers from trampling down large areas of the plants. The Birkensee is about 50 centimeters deep. To the east of the boardwalk, lush heather vegetation develops. Heather and blueberries grow here. To the west of the boardwalk, rushes tower up and peat moss arches up into cushions. The Birkensee would have long since become a birch forest if new trees were not regularly thinned out. • In moors, plant remains are not completely broken down, but are deposited over the years. The typical plant in the moor is peat moss - which can also be found at Birkensee (photo). Peat moss can store a lot of water. There are also plenty of rushes at Birkensee. Moors are divided into lowland moors, raised bogs and intermediate moors. Raised bogs only occur where there is a lot of precipitation, in this country for example in the Black Forest. (Hike "Grünhütte", Wildberg) This is because in raised bogs the subsoil bulges over the years like a watch glass. The plants feed exclusively on rainwater. Lowland moors, on the other hand, are fed by groundwater. At Birkensee we speak of a so-called intermediate moor, and there are also slight bulges here. However, the amount of precipitation in the Schönbuch is too low at around 750 litres of rain per year to feed a real raised bog.

The small pond offers shady spots.

Hiking trails from all four directions lead to this remarkable reservoir, which can remain as it is. The conversion measures were discarded.