Dunajovické hills

The Dunajovice hills are not significant for their height, in comparison with the neighboring Pavlovské hills they are a few indistinct hills, their highest point, Janská hora, reaching an altitude of 285 m. They stretch between the South Moravian villages Březí, Dolní Dunajovice and Brod nad Dyjí ha. Their foot is mostly covered with vineyards. Earlier, even during the war, there were vineyards, orchards and fields all around, but after the war, after the displacement of the original population and the subsequent collectivization of agriculture, this place remained fallow. This is the reason why the hills were declared protected in 1990. Over the course of several decades, various plant communities have formed on uncultivated areas.

The ridge of the hills is formed by Tertiary marine sediments, mainly claystones, siltstones and sandstones. The hills of some hills are formed by stepped terraces with steppe ice. The surrounding hills are surrounded by vineyards.

Turf steppes with a number of steppe plant species are typical. Among the rarest are the critically endangered hairy flax, carabinaceae and extremely rare Pančič's wormwood. You will also find a military orchid, from the bushes a three-limbed white, a cherry or a low almond. The area is threatened by a breeding colony of wild rabbits. Also the growth of invasive species such as blackthorn acacia. Lada are therefore also maintained by grazing sheep.

Rare species of ground beetles live here, the protected scallop weevil, from the butterflies the blue honeysuckle and the blackthorn, the spiders mainly the wart moth, the Embrik's moth or the poison ivy. Of the birds, the common warbler, the nightingale, the common shrike or the black-headed warbler found their nesting here.

Author: Marie Bukovinská