Basic data

Start: May 2014

End: October 2014

Location

Kelkheim - between Fischbach and Ruppertshain in the Vordertaunus at 280 meter above sea level.

Size

7.898 m²

Partner

 HGON e. V. is partner from Naturefund. As the owner, she will guard and preserve the area for the long term.

The rare red-backed shrike finds an optimal habitat on the species-rich poor grassland. The variety of animals is large on the grassland: Nickle, medium Spotted Woodpecker, brown hare, dark and bright dusky large blue, small health butterfly, lesser marbled fritillary, common copper, common brown, pale clouded yellow, lare marsh grasshopper, large gold grasshopper, two-coloured bush-cricket, bow-winged grasshopper and steppe grasshopper.

On the poor grassland, one can find a huge variety of plants, like the tall oatgrass, the hedge bedstraw, the rambling bellflower, the meadow salsify, the field wood-rush, the spring sedge, the catsear, the imperforate St. John's wort, the buttercup, the cleaver, the quaking grass, the meadow saxifrage, the dyer's broom, the saw-wort, the garden burnet, the cowslip and the lungwort.