Der Rabengrund, officially Rabengrund von Wiesbaden, is a recreation area, Naturschutzgebiet and Special Area of Conservation in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, Germany, established in 1988.
Geography
The protected area is in Wiesbaden-Nordost,Stadtplan der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden, Auswahl Verwaltung > Ortsbezirke. Retrieved 2 May 2020. part of Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, south of the . East of the area is the spring of the and the protected area Goldsteintal. The area is close to the city and also used by bicyclist, riders and people using model planes, causing ecologival stress.
The Rabengrund is part of a , as the historic Münzbergstollen of 1890 supplies drinking water from the Taunus for Wiesbaden.
The average temperature in the Rabengrund is about 10 °C, the average rainfall 600–650 mm.Berthold Hilgendorf, Matthias Fehlow: Grunddatenerfassung für das FFH-Gebiet 5815-301 "Rabengrund von Wiesbaden mit angrenzenden Flächen", October 2005.
Nature preservation The nature preserve of was protected on 22 March 1988.Verordnung über das Naturschutzgebiet "Rabengrund von Wiesbaden" 22 March 1988. In: Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen, Nr. 14, pp. 756–758.
The meadows of the area go back to agriculture in Roman times.Naturschutzgebiete, Website der Stadt Wiesbaden. Retrieved 2 May 2020. Nature preservation aims at retaining some rare plants which attract rare animals. The area features dry meadows on acid soil, meadows of false oat grass and of Molinia, beech forests and reed beds. Floweing plants include orchids such as Dactylorhiza majalis, Anacamptis morio, Neotinea ustulata and Platanthera bifolia; the Dactylorhiza viridis has its only place in the Taunus here.Wolfgang Ehmke: Die Orchideen im hessischen Westtaunus, In: Geobot. Kolloq. 18, Frankfurt am Main, March 2005, , p. 11.
A geological circle path accesses the area.Eberhard Kümmerle, Benedikt Toussaint, Helmut Arnold, Gudrun Radtke: Geologischer Rundweg im Rabengrund. In: Jahrbücher des Nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde|Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 135, Wiesbaden 2014, , pp. 63–84. Rabengrund is maintained by the Chausseehaus of .
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