Balgheimer See
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| Geographical location | Rhein-Kreis Neuss , North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Islands | an artificially created island | |
| Location close to the shore | Dormagen | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 5 '32 " N , 6 ° 47' 7" E | |
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| surface | 50 ha | |
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The Balgheimer See is a quarry pond near Dormagen in North Rhine-Westphalia and has been a nature reserve since 1998 .
Location and description
The Balgheimer See is located in the west of the area of the city of Dormagen in the Rhine district of Neuss . Straberger See is located directly to the north , and the A 57 runs about 400 m to the east . The body of water was named after the disappeared high medieval settlement of Balgheim, which was located near it.
With 50 hectares of water, it is the largest lake in the district. The lake was dredged until 2014. Since then it has been left to develop naturally. Only fishing within the framework of the fishing club is permitted. The excavation was carried out by the now dissolved Rheinkies Nord-West Straberg GmbH, a subsidiary of the Rheinkies-Baggerei Wesel Dr. Wolfgang Boettger GmbH & Co KG. The gravel extraction served to supply the local concrete industry, e.g. B. the precast plants Nievenheim and Neuss of DW Beton (today Berding). The gravel and sand were used to manufacture thousands of concrete pipes for the sewage system and hundreds of thousands of railway sleepers. Further quantities were delivered to ready-mixed concrete plants in the area, from which many construction sites in the Rhine district of Neuss, Düsseldorf and the surrounding area were supplied.
Nature reserve
The area of the entire nature reserve is 94.24 hectares and has now been completely recultivated. The embankments were flattened, various bushes were planted (e.g. dogwood , sycamore maple , poplar , willow and hazel ) and some seeds were sown from wildflower cultivars.
Furthermore, an artificial steep wall was created on an island as a nesting facility for sand martins, which is also populated. The artificially created smaller bodies of water on the island are populated by natterjack toads.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dangers of gravel mining. Concerns about groundwater quality. (June 10, 2005) in the online portal of the Rheinische Post , accessed on July 2, 2014.
- ↑ Science with snorkels and compressed air. Scientists examine Lake Balgheim. (August 18, 2002) in the online portal of the Rheinische Post , accessed on July 2, 2014.
- ↑ a b Nature reserve “Balgheimer See” (NE-015) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 10, 2017.
- ^ RP ONLINE: Dormagen: Jost Auler: archaeologist, author, pedagogue. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ House of Nature: Balgheimer See nature reserve ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 2, 2014.
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