Berrenrather Börde

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Berrenrather Börde

The Berrenrather Borde is a 1,100 hectare large cultural landscape caused by the degradation of brown coal originated. It is located on the outskirts of the city of Hürth in the Rhein-Erft district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is named after the Berrenrath district of the city of Hürth.

location

The Börde lies west of the city center and there west of the Berrenrath district. To the south lies the Erftstadt district of Kierdorf . The districts of Brüggen , Balkhausen and Türnich of the city of Kerpen follow in a clockwise direction . The federal highway 264 runs north of the Börde ; in the eastern area the federal highway 1 crosses the area. Kreisstraße 50 crosses the area in a west-east direction as Berrenrather Straße . The two hamlets of Berrenrath and Brüggen are located on it . To the south-east lies the Zieselsmaar outside the district .

history

Hamlet of Berrenrath

Already in the 18th century on the district lignite promoted for industrial utilization. However, this happened in smaller pits, because on a map from 1900 the area is recognizable as an extensive wooded area of ​​the so-called Waldville . With increasing industrialization , the area became part of the Rhenish lignite mining area when the Berrenrath and Berrenrath-West opencast mines were created. After it had been charred, the operator commissioned landscape planner Gerhard Olschowy with the recultivation from the mid-1960s .

Originally the area was to be reforested and the remaining holes filled into lakes. At the beginning of the planning, however, there was a considerable need for agricultural land. The cause were farmers who had to be relocated from the northern parts of the area and needed new fields. The raw dump was therefore covered with loess and thus opened up for agriculture. The originally 389 hectares (status: 1893) large agricultural area was increased to 821 hectares. At the same time, the forestry area fell from 668 hectares to 235 hectares. Along the agriculturally used areas, workers planted linear bands of wood, which were mainly designed as a windbreak hedge. The recultivation was successfully completed in 1978. Since then, the area has been around five meters below the original level. In the north, the landscape architects created an artificial elevation. It is known as Wilhelmshöhe and, at 154.9 meters above sea ​​level, is the highest point in the city of Hürth. The Berrenrath Börde is managed by two hamlets, Berrenrath and Brüggen. In the 1990s, additional trees were added as a result of compensatory measures. It is the first large-scale, uniformly planned agricultural recultivation area in the Rhenish lignite mining area.

In 2006, the city designated the Börde as a concentration zone for wind power plants in its zoning plan . Ten years later, three wind turbines with a total output of 2850 kW went online.

In 2015 it became known that water from the former opencast mine was contaminated with heavy metals and sulfur. The concentration was sometimes so high that trees in a drainage ditch died. As a result, a discussion arose about who will have to pay for cleaning a retention basin in the future. While in the establishment of the area was determined that RWE Power should pay for the costs, but has so far been unclear whether the operator of this infinity costs had included in its provisions.

Web links

Commons : Berrenrather Börde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Kottenforst-Ville Nature Park (ed.): Brühl and the Ville lakes . Leisure card 1: 25,000. 2010, ISBN 978-3-938624-09-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Pflug: Lignite mining and recultivation: landscape ecology - subsequent use - nature conservation . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-58846-4 , pp. 440-442 ( google.com ).
  2. ↑ Berrenrath / Frechen , website of the Research Center Recultivation, accessed on February 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Information board for the Berrenrather Börde as part of the Southwest Adventure Route, set up south of Wilhelmshöhe, February 2019.
  4. ^ Entry on Berrenrather Börde (cultural landscape area Regionalplan Cologne 154) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on February 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ Green energy for Hürth , website energiekontor.de, accessed on February 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Ralph Jansen: Polluted water: water on the Berrenrather Börde heavily polluted . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , November 25, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2019.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '50 "  N , 6 ° 47' 17.3"  E