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82. Vinořský Park (Vinoř Park) Nature Reserve (PR) |
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Area south of the Vinoř chateau with spring outlets, bordered with sandstone
rocks. Cadastre: Vinoř. Area: 34.07 ha. Elevation: 245 - 260 m above sea
level. Established by the Ordinance of Prague Municipality No. 3/1982 of
May 27, 1982.
Valuable landscape element linking up with the Satalice pheasantry represents
a refuge for numerous plant and animal species, simultaneously providing
recreation opportunities for the population of the northeastern industrial
part of Prague.
Outcrops of Cenomanian sandstones of the Bohemian Cretaceous. The valley
slopes show distinct rock city formations with honeycombs. Light sandy
soils change into gleys in the valley.
The valley floor is covered with wetland vegetation with wind-swept alders.
The slopes are covered with a leaf-tree wood with a number of old specimens
and mostly secondary plant level - the touch-me-not (Impatients parviflora),
the dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis) and the herb robert (Geranium
robertianum).
Biotope for invertebrates bound with the wetland valley floor between
sandstone rocks, pond banks and natural woods comprizing old oaks. From
the number of wetland beetles mention should be made of e.g. Notiophilus
aquaticus, Leistus terminatus and Agonum viduum from the ground beetles,
Prasocuris juncii and Phaedon armoraciae from the leaf beetles, Pelenomus
quadrituberculatus from the snout beetles as well as Trechus austriacus
and Laemostenus terricola from the ground beetles inhabiting woods and
rocks. Numerous brachypod species incl. the submontane Semilimax semilimax
and Vertigo substriata. The area provides an important refuge for numerous
bird species either stopping here in passing or nesting here. The old oaks
are a permanent nesting site of the great spotted woodpecker, the wryneck
and rarely also the black woodpecker, the starling and other species using
numerous hollows, such as the great tit and the nuthatch. Frequent are
also minor rodents, such as the bank vole, the long-tailed field mouse
as well as the dormouse and the common hare.
The valley is bordered with the outcrops of the Upper Cretaceous sandstones,
valuable old oaks on the valley slopes and wetland alder woods at the spring
outlets with characteristic flora and fauna. The tree level is dominated
by the common oak, the ash, the norway maple, the small-leaved lime and
the hornbeam. The shrub level consists mostly of the common elder.
On the promontory above the sandstone rocks there is a site of a prehistorical
settlement - so far not investigated Slavonic stronghold with ramparts.
The park linking up with the Vinoř Chateau was laid out in the 18th century
in the English landscaped style. The design included a pond, the shaping
of mown meadows and the planting of the leaf trees on the slopes. At present
the park is not maintained and the meadows are overgrown with wind-swept
alders. It would be desirable to restore the landscape significance of
the park and to enhance its connection with the Satalice pheasantry.
Kubíková (1986, 1992).
Aerial view of the Vinoř Park nature reserve with the chateau in the background.
The caterpillar of Acronycta aceris lives on chestnuts.
An islet in the pond in the Vinoř Park nature reserve.
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