The special-purpose association "Saar-Blies-Gau/Auf der Lohe" invites you to get to know the fascinating landscape of the Bliesgau on Wednesday, September 14. Dieter Dorda will give a lecture with images about "Species, Biotopes, and Landscapes in the Bliesgau Biosphere Reserve." The event will take place in the seminar room of Haus Lochfeld, starting at 7 p.m., and the participation fee is three euros.
The Bliesgau is a strong piece of home. While just a few years ago the land along the Blies was known as a travel destination to only a few in Germany, this is different today. The reason is the designation of the Bliesgau as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve – since 2009, the Bliesgau has been playing in the league of the very great landscapes and ranks nationally among such significant large landscapes as the Rhön, Lake Schalsee, the Black Forest, Southeast Rügen, or the Swabian Jura, and internationally alongside the Galapagos Islands, the Everglades, Yellowstone, the Camargue, Masuria, or the Białowieża Primeval Forest in Poland.
The Bliesgau is remarkably diverse. The region is characterized by Muschelkalk in the south and Buntsandstein in the north. There are dry grasslands on limestone and those on sand, orchid beech forests, moor grass meadows, bog pine forests with crowberries, and valley meadow oat grasslands. Meandering through it all is the Blies River. It gives the region its name. From a bird's-eye view, the Bliesgau resembles a colorful patchwork cloth, much like what Astrid Lindgren made Nils Holgersson feel on his wondrous journey with the wild geese.
The speaker, Dieter Dorda, comes from the Bliesgau and also lives there. Dorda, author of several publications with a faunal and floral geographic background, has written a new book about the Bliesgau and takes interested people along to the species, biotopes, and landscapes of the BR Bliesgau.
Registration by September 13th at the latest with the Saarpfalz district by phone at (06841) 104-7228 or by e-mail at haus-lochfeld@saarpfalz-kreis.de is required. Further information (including directions) about the offer of the Cultural Landscape Center can be obtained there. Due to limited parking availability at the house, attendees are asked to use parking spaces in the vicinity or form carpool groups.
