Bacher Lay

	Bacher Lay IUCN category none - not specified
	Bacher Lay near Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
location	Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany
surface	44.7 ha
WDPA ID	162315
Geographical location	50 ° 39 ' N , 7 ° 59' E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '14 " N , 7 ° 58' 36" E
Setup date	1996

The Bacher Lay is a 44.7 hectare nature reserve in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate and a geotope of the Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus Geopark .

location

It is a disused basalt quarry , which is located between Bad Marienberg and Nisterau directly on the Black Nister, an inlet of the large Nister . The name is derived from the formerly independent place Bach , which is now part of the municipality of Nisterau; Lay in this case means quarry . The area extends in parts over the districts of Bad Marienberg, Bach, Eichenstruth and Stockhausen-Illfurth .

The Bacher Lay is characterized by a mighty, almost vertical basalt stone wall, which was created by the earlier basalt mining. The nearby "Pfaffenmal", an 18-meter-high columned basalt cone in the form of a mile, is also worth seeing.

It's about 4 kilometers on foot from the town center of Bad Marienberg to the Bacher Lay.

Nature reserve

The Koblenz district government issued an ordinance on this on October 28, 1996, in which the protective purpose is described as follows:

"The protective purpose is the preservation and development of the 'Bacher Lay' with its standing and flowing waters with flat and steep bank areas, with its dry grass, tall herbaceous corridors and steep basalt walls as a habitat for rare animal and plant species that are threatened in their existence - especially amphibians, Reptiles and bird species as well as orchid species ”.