Holmegaard Mose

- sub-project no. 2

Holmegaard Mose is located in Næstved Municipality and is the only marsh in the LIFE project outside of Jutland. It is the largest raised bog in Eastern Denmark with approx. 450 ha, which also constitutes the project area.

Holmegaard Mose is privately owned, but the protection from 2009 stipulates that the Norwegian Nature Agency is the care authority and therefore responsible for caring for and restoring the bog. Just south of the bog is Holmegaard Glasværk, where industrial glass is still produced. The glass factory has dug peat for fuel for 150 years. The many open peat pits bear witness to the last exploitation during the Second World War until the beginning of the 1950s.

In the period 2010 – 2013, Holmegaard Mose began to be restored in the central and western part in connection with a LIFE project (LIFE08 NAT/DK/000466). In the new project, the focus is on the eastern part and on diverting surface water that currently flows through the bog.

The objective is

• to improve the water conditions on 227 ha,
• to clear 35 ha of overgrown bog,
• to investigate the occurrence of Graphoderus bileneatus and Leucorrhinia and to improve the habitats of the species,
• to cooperate with Næstved Municipality (utility job scheme) and volunteer groups with a view to care, monitoring, etc.,
• to carry out monitoring of water levels, vegetation and the rare insects,
• to strengthen the dissemination of the nature of the bog, i.a. in collaboration with the museum, which is located at Holmegaard Værk