カアークスの天然記念物・トップ20

The Nordoe Inland Dunes are now a 407-hectare nature reserve and part of the National Natural Heritage. The area is characterized by a mix of diverse habitats: open sandy areas, heathlands, and wetlands. There are both pine-covered inland dunes and scrub-like oak woodlands. The Nordoe Inland Dunes are an important refuge for rare and endangered animal and plant species. The ecosystem depends on the nutrient-poor conditions and open landscape. To maintain these conditions, the area is now managed through extensive grazing with Galloways, Highland cattle, and Exmoor ponies.

Very nice view, with a bad route

Who can claim that they were once below sea level? Great highlight!

The inland dunes of Nordoe are quite a sight to behold. Despite the poor soil, many insects find a home here. A plaque not far from the dunes tells you more about it.

An information board about the so-called "pioneer" plant species in the North Oer inland dunes. The inland dunes Nordoe are a nature reserve in the Schleswig-Holstein municipalities of Dägeling, Kremperheide and Breitenburg in the Steinburg district.

Here you can also learn everything about the inhabitants of the dunes.

They open up new habitats before anyone else: Pioneer species are well adapted to survive in extreme, nutrient-poor conditions. Thanks to this advantage over other species, they can be the first to colonize new, vegetation-free areas. The open, dry and nutrient-poor sandy soils of the North Oer inland dunes also belong to the typical pioneer locations. Silvergrass is one of the first settlers on dry, agitated sandy soils. Its bushy growth habit helps the species to collect rainwater over a large area and direct it from the tips to the roots. These reach down to a depth of 50 centimetres, which means that the silver grass can tap into the few nutrients available in the sandy soil. In contrast, the sand sedge has a straight rootstock several meters long that protrudes below the surface of the soil. Sprouts grow from this every 5 to 10 centimeters. Because of this phenomenon, the sand sedge is also called "God's sewing machine". Thanks to the fine roots close to the surface, the species does not depend on water in the soil, but can absorb the moisture from the surface. The plants strengthen the loose sand of the dunes with their roots. The whorled chickweed is one of the pioneer species. However, the "Red List species" grows on wet sandy soils.

Since the beginning of 2013, the FFH area "Binnendünen Nordoe" has not only been a special protection area of European interest but also designated as a nature reserve under national law. The former military use has preserved the rest of an old inland dune area here and a partly uncoupled common land landscape these are protected from intensive agriculture, drainage, plowing up, fertilization or large-scale afforestation.Distinctive habitats include open sand pioneer plains, pine-covered inland dunes, grasslands, heather inland dunes, damp dwarf shrub heaths, and kratt-like oak forests.Many of the plant and animal species found in the area are Rare and highly endangered. Here you will find one of your last retreats in Schleswig-Holstein. The aim of protected area management is to preserve a spacious, open landscape in which the nutrient-poor conditions in particular are preserved.