Identified: 1993
Size:
NSG 128.9ha
LSG 52ha
The NSG Hirschacker und Dossenwald is a nature reserve and a complementary landscape protection area!
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It belongs to the natural area Schwetzinger Sand and includes one of the most important drift sand areas in Baden-Württemberg. The dune range has calcareous dunes up to 13 meters high, steeply sloping to the east. In the west is the drifted sand field and in the east the Neckar alluvial fan.
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Flora and fauna:
The area is almost completely forested, mainly with pine but also with robinia and mixed deciduous forests. High-voltage roads and large clearings in southern Hirschacker are free of trees because of their earlier military use. Here grow gentian, sand lawns with silver grass and sand straw flower and dwarf shrub heather with heather. Typical sand dwellers are the blue-winged wasteland insect, ant lion, dune tiger beetle and gyratory wasp. An oak and hornbeam forest grows on the Neckar alluvial fan with its loamy soil.
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Special protective measures:
Due to increasing disruptions by visitors, the Karlsruhe Regional Council implemented a partial barrier by fencing in early 2020 to protect animals and plants that are sensitive to disturbance and set up visitor guidance systems over a total length of 1200 meters. In addition, 850 meters of sand and dirt paths were removed and trails were blocked with the help of transverse trees - this corresponds to around two thirds of the previous paths.
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The name "Dossenwald" is derived from "Dosse", the old German word for pine.
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Animal and plant species:
Birds:
Goat milker,
Woodlark,
Middle woodpecker
Insects:
Tiger beetle,
Blue-winged Wasteland Cricket,
Green beach insect,
Blue swallow root beetle,
Evening primrose hawk
Amphibians / reptiles:
Sand lizard,
Mountain newt
Plant:
Straw flower,
Brown-red u.
Broad-leaved stendola, gray-silky feather grass,
Silver grass,
Heather,
Gray scabiosis
(nabu-schwetzingen.de and Wikipedia)