Vilsecker Mulde nature reserve
The Vilsecker Mulde is a nature reserve on the upper reaches of the Vils. Hackelweiher, Großer Schleierweiher, Großer Sollerweiher or Wagenweiher are some of the wet meadows that the Bund Naturschutz has been maintaining in the Vilsecker Mulde for many years. The names indicate a former use as a fish pond. In the Middle Ages there was an extensive pond landscape in the Vilsecker Mulde. For several generations there have also been wet meadows, alder and birch swamp forests, tall herb meadows, buckthorn bushes and pine forests between Vilseck and Freihung.
The wet meadows in the Vilsecker Mulde in particular are home to a large number of endangered species. The association "Der BUND-Naturschutz" district group Amberg-Sulzbach takes care of animals such as the dock green scurry, the spotted darter, the western damsel damsel, the marsh grasshopper, the marsh cricket, the large gold cricket, the tree frog or the corncrake with farmers about the correct management of the land. Above all, this means mowing as late as possible and avoiding fertilization and plant protection.
In addition to mowing and the right technology, the water balance is playing an increasingly important role. An attempt is made to keep the water in the area so that it can be drained away. The drainage ditches should therefore be managed in such a way that they are drained in coordination with professional nature conservation. The Vilsniederung lies in the natural area of the "Upper Palatinate hill country" in the natural subunit of the "Vilsecker Kreidemulde". Due to the close "interlocking" with other ecologically significant areas of life in the Vilsecker Mulde, the areas represent an ideal component in the sense of a biotope network.
The meadows are mowed annually to prevent bush encroachment and to maintain them as a species-rich meadow.
Plants such as the marsh bloodeye, the burning buttercup, the small rattle or the saxifrage are striking in the meadows in spring. Many different species from the sedge families (a plant genus from the sedge family), rushes and grasses also find a home.
Source: Bund Naturschutz – Amberg-Sulzbach district group