The Allacher Forest is a forest north of Munich, in the district of Allach-Untermenzing.
Location edit
The Allacher Forest is located north of the Munich North marshalling train yard, between the Munich districts of Allach, Ludwigsfeld and Karlsfeld, a municipality of the district of Dachau.[1]
Ecosystem edit
The Allacher Forest is a remnant of the former Lohwaldgürtel[2] north of Munich with over 1 km² area. In addition to old linden trees and oak trees, there are also sycamore maples, spruces, mountain elms, pine trees and ash trees. Numerous types of flowers bloom here in the spring - including lungwort, cowslip or wood anemone. In addition, there are more than 300 different types of mushrooms there.[1]
The Munich North marshalling yard - a large displacement and container station, was built on the southern edge of the Allacher Forest in 1991.[3] This led to criticism from conservationists since 174 hectares of biotope area was destroyed. On a 5 km long and 500 m wide area, with 356 connections and over 120 km of tracks, up to 4000 railway cars are handled there every day.[1] The Allacher Forest is now a rare riparian forest, that after massive protests from the population and the experts, the A99 motorway ring Munich Northwest crosses under the Allacher Forst in the so-called Tunnel Allach.
The landscape lake Allacher Lohe, as well as a forest classroom are found in the forest.
The Allacher Forest is designated as a nature conservation reserve (NSG-00573.01, WDPA ID: 318087) and the northwestern part is also a landscape conservation area (LSG-00120.06, WDPA ID: 395563).[4] Furthermore, the Allacher Forst is reported together with the south located Angerlohe as a fauna-flora-habitat area (FFH area No. 7734-302)[5] for the European biotope network to the European Union.[4]
The Allacher Forest is part of the Münchner Grüngürtel (Munich green belt).
References edit
- ^ a b c "München: Allacher Forst". onlinereisefuehrer.de (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Allacher Forst: Schatzkästlein neben der Autobahn" (in German). rondamuenchen. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Rangierbahnhof München Nord" (in German). Luftbilder München. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Landschaftsschutzgebiet Angerlohe" (in German). Landeshauptstadt München. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Fauna-Flora-Habitatgebiet Allacher Forst und Angerloh" (in German). Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten. 2000. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
External links edit
- Nature reserves in Munich
- Ma pof protected biotopes Archived 2019-04-30 at the Wayback Machine