The Fauna-Flora-Habitat (FFH) area of Belchen is characterized by extensive common pastures, large beech forests and near-natural flowing waters. In order to preserve and develop these habitats of rare animal and plant species, the Freiburg Regional Council (RP) has now completed and published a management plan.
In the FFH area Belchen there are 23 different habitat types that are protected according to the Habitats Directive of the European Union. The state of Baden-Württemberg bears a special responsibility for the preservation of the now very rare, nutrient-poor nebula grass lawns that have developed over long periods of extensive cultivation in Germany. Today, species such as arnica or gorse occur in large stocks almost only in the southern Black Forest. Occasional specimens of cat paws and white tongue can still be found in the area, both of which are endangered species. In addition, the three types of bat, the eyelash bat, the Bechstein bat and the great mouse-eared bat, as well as the rare moss species Rogers golden hair moss and goblin moss are at home on the Belchen.
The present management plan presents the results of the mapping of the protected FFH habitat types and FFH species. It also contains objectives and recommended measures for their conservation and development. For example, pasture areas are to be preserved by continuing grazing and pushing back emerging woody succession. In the forests, the focus is on promoting local forest communities and closeness to nature. In order to implement the management plan, the district office, the municipalities, owners and managers are called upon to get involved on site.
In the FFH area Belchen there is also the Nonnenmattweiher, which as a nutrient-poor lake with a peat island is home to rare and endangered species such as round-leaved sundew, cranberries and fever clover, which is probably the country’s largest occurrence of the endangered marsh bear lap. At the suggestion of the region, the management plan for the protection of these species initially provides for an investigation of the water body. The aim is to determine the pollution of the pond on the basis of more precise data and to draw the necessary conclusions for a visitor management concept and other measures.
The management plan can be found under “News” on the Freiburg regional council’s website: www.rp.freiburg.de. In addition, he can at the usual local opening times in the district office Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Stadtstraße 3, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, in the district office Lörrach, Lower nature conservation authority, Im Entenbad 11-13, 79541 Lörrach as well as in the regional council of Freiburg, department for nature conservation and landscape management, Bissierstraße 7, 79114 Freiburg can be viewed. The authorities ask for an appointment in advance.
The 2,907 hectare FFH area Belchen extends over the municipalities of Wieden, Schönenberg, Aitern, Kleines Wiesental, Utzenfeld, Böllen, Todtnau, Fröhnd, Schönau and Münstertal in the districts of Lörrach and Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. It is one of the 212 FFH areas and 90 bird protection areas in Baden-Württemberg, which together are part of the European Natura 2000 network. For each Natura 2000 area, the regional councils, in coordination with the authorities, associations and land users, have drawn up a management plan that shows the existence of the protected habitats and species and suggests measures for their conservation.
(Freiburg Regional Council | September 8th, 2021)
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