Barmer forest
The Barmer Wald is a recreational forest in the Wuppertal district of Heckinghausen . It forms the southern part of the Barmer facilities of the Barmer Beautification Association .
location
The inferred by many forest trails the rest of the medieval , cooperative used Barmer Gemarkenwaldes the Barmer courtyards. It extends from the Wuppertal Südhöhen in the north, where it borders the parks of the Barmer Anlagen, and drops to the south into the nature-protected Murmelbachtal . In the west it reaches up to the villa district around the Toelleturm and runs out in the southwest to the Vorwerkpark . The south of the forest bordering the former training area Scharpenacken and the settlement Konrad desert at Hammes mountain . The forest extends over the valley of the Murmelbach up to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Höhe on the summit of the Deisemannskopf mountain (282 m), from which the terrain slopes steeply into Heckinghauser residential areas. The highest point of the forest is 330 meters above sea level .
Attractions
Due to the use of the Barmer facility as a recreational forest, the forest has a dense network of paths. Crossroads, squares and paths often remind with their names of Barmen dignitaries like the Bredthöhe to the Mayor of Barmen August Wilhelm Bredt (1817–1895) or, like the Kuckucksweg or the forest path, are named after natural conditions. At the Century Square was founded on February 3, 1908 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the city of Barmen the century oak planted. Numerous memorial stones were set up at crossroads. In the forest is the Barmen Cemetery of Honor , where those who died in the world wars were buried.
The nature-protected valley of the Murmelbach , on the other hand, is largely natural, with numerous ponds accompanying the course of the stream . The only building in the valley is the Murmelbachtal pilgrims' home . In the first third of the 20th century there was a lookout tower on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Höhe . In the Barmer Forest, there are still protected remains of the Barmer line of the Bergische Landwehr as a ground monument .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 31 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 30 ″ E