Kronovalls store vång

For many centuries, the area around Kronovall Castle was used for grazing and haymaking. This has created the magnificent variety of flowers to be found in Kronovalls Store Vång Nature Reserve. You'll find catsfoot, common milkwort and wolf's bane – flowers that have long been part of the ancient cultivated landscape that our meadows and pastures comprise.

Expansive Pastures

Kronovalls Store Vång Nature Reserve consists of a mosaic of pasture, with bush-covered hills and open pastures. In the sparse broad-leaved woodlands there is an almost park-like landscape with clearings and old, broad-crowned trees. The large, old linden trees are particularly valuable.

Spawning Ground of the Tree Frog

In early summer, when the blossoming hawthorn bushes glow white, the pastures are full of life. European tree frogs spawn in the ponds around the nature reserve. They live in the bushes throughout the rest of the year. The Red-backed Shrike nests in the hawthorn bushes and Common Starling fly constantly between their nests in the old oak and the open land where they find their food.

Fallen Giants

Fallen giant trees rest here and there. They now fulfil their last, but perhaps most important duty; that of a home and food source for wood-dwelling insects and fungi. Trees that are allowed to remain in the woodland their entire lives are important for biodiversity.