Baerler Busch (forest area)
Baerler Busch [ ˈbaːrlər ˈbuʃ ] is the name for a local recreation area in the north-west of Duisburg . The name is also used for the adjacent residential area of the same name in the city of Moers .
The area extends beyond the city limits of Duisburg and is cut through by the A 42 . The area on the western edge of the Baerl district of Duisburg is a heather forest. It includes around 3.2 km² of forest and the 0.5 km² large Lohheider Lake, which was created through the extraction of gravel and sand . In the south, already in Moers city area, lies the Waldsee, another, smaller, renatured gravel pit. Here the Baerler Busch borders the Rhine Prussia dump .
The sandy soil of the forest gave rise to oaks and head-high ferns . Particularly common are there of sumac and black locust found.
In the Baerler Busch there are many bomb craters from the Second World War , which convey a picture of less peaceful times. Aircraft bombs were found while Autobahn 42 was being built. So it can be assumed that undiscovered duds are still hidden today. South of the Loheider See are the overgrown walls of an SS shooting range, where the Duisburger Volkssturm was trained for its senseless fight, a place for silent remembrance. In the southwest immediately south of the A 42 is the forest cemetery Lohmannsheide, on which there are, among other things, 141 graves of forced laborers who during the Second World War in the Moers area mainly in mining in the nearby Rheinpreußen 5/9 mine and in the gasoline works in Meerbeck beyond the dump were used and were killed by malnutrition and inhuman living conditions.
The Ruhr Regional Association acquired the Baerler Busch in 2006 in order to secure it for local recreation. The forest in the city triangle Duisburg / Moers / Rheinberg is to be developed into an ecological local recreation area. For example, the expansion of parking spaces for hikers and those seeking relaxation on the edge of the forest area is planned so that unregulated parking is avoided.
The previously used trails are to give way to a large network of hiking trails with benches, signposts and information boards. Furthermore, new path connections are planned in the north and south of the forest area. Particular emphasis should be placed on forest maintenance. Diseased and unfamiliar trees should be replaced by hardwoods.
As mentioned, a small part of the historical district of Baerler Busch currently belongs to the city of Moers as a residential area . This south-western part, which mainly affects the areas of the Waldsee and the mining dump Rhine Prussia, was separated from the Baerler area on January 1, 1975 when the municipality of Rheinkamp was divided up and assigned to the Moers part. It is located north of the Meerbeck residential area and is surrounded on three sides by Baerler and thus by Duisburg areas. The Baerler Busch residential area is only sparsely populated. The settlement area almost exclusively affects Gutenbergstrasse, which is located southeast of the 103 m high Rhine Prussia dump.
In the area of the living space, traces of temporary human settlement have been found for both the Early and Middle Iron Age . These are mainly in the north-eastern area at the Waldsee. In detail, ceramic shards, a grave field with urn shards and a single bronze sword were excavated at five different locations. In the south-western part of the village, near the Eick residential area, ceramic shards from the Middle Iron Age and a Roman settlement with bricks, ceramic shards, amphorae and a millstone were found at one point.
The district of Baerler Busch belonged to a large forest area that had stretched northeast between Moers and Rheinberg since the Middle Ages . Municipal and ecclesiastical it belonged to the parish of Baerl. Settlement sites were only created in a few small areas and there is largely a lack of written evidence for the area up to the 19th century, as no farmers developed. In a study of the Lower Rhine in 1836, the Baerler Busch was not listed as a hamlet or peasantry, nor in 1901 in a directory of places and addresses. At the beginning of the 20th century, however, there was little settlement. In 1904, the Repelen postal agency listed the Baerler Busch area as well as others for the rural delivery districts to be looked after.
The Baerler Busch, also known as the “Royal Forest”, was a hunting ground for the nobility. For example, in 1841 in the royal Prussian official gazette this hunting area was advertised for leasing. In 1911 the mining company Rheinpreußen acquired the Baerler Busch, which expanded its area for coal mining, which had already sunk the mining pits in the vicinity in Utfort and Hochstraß . No additional mine shaft was built in the Baerler Busch area, but in the adjoining south-eastern area of Gerdt . Here, at the beginning of the 1940s, shaft 8 was constructed as a weather shaft for the coal mines in operation at the Rheinpreussen collieries.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Moers - districts and residential areas. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 1, pp. 412/4 + 432. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
- ^ In: Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region . 1904, No. 46, p. [526] 381. Online version
- ^ In: Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region . 1841, No. 13, p. [737] 52. Online version
- ^ In: Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region . 1911, No. 205, p. [2439] 1640. Online version