Blankenheim forest

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Blankenheim (Wald) station building in 2011
Station building front in 2007

Blankenheim-Wald is a locality in the municipality of Blankenheim (Ahr) in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As of December 31, 2003, 69 residents were registered in Blankenheim-Wald, which is 492  m above sea level. NHN lies. To the east of Blankenheim-Wald lies Blankenheimerdorf , to whose district it belongs and with which it shares much of its history.

location

The Urft flows through the Blankenheim-Wald location after about a third of its course from Schmidtheim to Nettersheim . In the west the communities Dahlem and Nettersheim border.

The location is framed to the east in a clockwise direction by the Küchenberg ( 530.8  m above sea level ) ( location ), Schäferberg ( 537.9  m above sea level ) ( location ) and Hütterberg ( 529  m above sea level ) ( location ). Beyond the Urft and to the west of the train station and industrial area there are larger forests (Schleiden State Forest). In the southern area of ​​the station area, the Wisselbach flows into the Urft from the west. At the same time, it forms the municipal boundary between Dahlem and Nettersheim.

The nature reserve Haubachtal, Dietrichseiffen with Urftaue near Blankenheim-Wald (EU-131) surrounds the location.

traffic

The federal road 258 runs north of Blankenheim-Wald and runs under federal road 51 on its route from Blankenheim to Schleiden shortly after Blankenheimerdorf . It used to run through the Blankenheim-Wald area on Alteburger Strasse and Urftstrasse. With the bypass, it was moved to the northern outskirts.

The place was created with the construction of the train station Blankenheim (Wald) in 1870 on the Eifel line Euskirchen - Trier , it is the only train station still in operation in the municipality of Blankenheim. From 1913 the Ahrdorf – Blankenheim line branched off there ; this connection was gradually closed from 1947 and gradually dismantled from 1963, most recently in 1980 the section Blankenheim (Ahr) - Blankenheim (forest).

Since 2017, a development association has been committed to the maintenance and sustainable use of the station building.

economy

In addition to the train station, which has largely lost its importance in the meantime and whose station building is empty, various businesses have settled in Blankenheim-Wald on the area of ​​a former sawmill.

tourism

The Blankenheim-Wald train station is the starting point for the Tiergarten Tunnel hiking trail as well as for bicycle tourists who want to reach the Ahr Cycle Path down the Ahr from Blankenheim.

Architectural monuments

Beyond the main road is the former Blankenheimerdorfer Mühle or Lentgesmühle . It was entered on May 18, 1987 under No. 1 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Blankenheim.

To the south, the Gräfliche Beissel'sche Revierförsterei Forsthaus Alteburg and then the Gut Altenburg and the remains of the neighboring Altenburg are connected via Alteburger Straße .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Friends' Association , accessed on April 30, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '31.7 "  N , 6 ° 35' 50.4"  E