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Bockerter Heide nature reserve

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Viersen-BockerterHeide (Welterspeschen) .jpg
location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
District of Viersen
City of Viersen
surface 1.684 km²
Identifier VIE-034
WDPA ID 162475
Geographical location 51 ° 13 '  N , 6 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '13 "  N , 6 ° 22' 25"  E
Bockerter Heide (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Bockerter heather
Setup date 1992
Framework plan District of Viersen: Office for Building, Landscape and Planning
(as lower landscape authority)
administration District of Viersen
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The Bockerter Heide is a 168.36 hectare nature reserve in the south of the Lower Rhine district town of Viersen , which is located in the west of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The nature reserve Bockerter Heide is located on the extreme southern edge of the Viersen urban area on the periphery of the Alt-Viersen districts of Bockert , Bötzlöh , Oberbeberich and Ompert and extends to the city and district boundary with Mönchengladbach . The reserve Bockerter Heide is completed by the conservation area Bockerter-Bebericher channel landscape , which extends substantially over the agriculturally extends used outside area of the Alt-Viersener south, between the general residential buildings, and the nature reserve Bockerter Heide located.

Project description

The increasing industrialization and rationalization of agriculture has led to a number of measures such as: B. led the land consolidation , through the centuries- old landscape structures such as bushes, small forests, land weirs , etc. were often leveled and removed. As a result, the general landscape has largely changed considerably, even in rural outlying areas , especially in the course of the 20th century .

In the Bockerter Heide area, on the other hand, a number of archaic landscape structures have been preserved better than elsewhere. In order to preserve this, the following protection goals were specified for the Bockerter Heide nature reserve in accordance with Section 20 of the Landscape Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia :

The area of ​​the Bockerter Heide on an old Prussian map from 1844.
Flachskuhlen in the Bockerter Heide are reminiscent of pre-industrial production processes.
Red beech forests also offer nesting opportunities for cave breeders in the Bockerter Heide.
Due to the extensive agriculture in the area of ​​the Bockerter Heide , many landscape elements that had been removed elsewhere were preserved, such as B. the group of trees shown here, which separates a cattle meadow from the neighboring field .
Cattle meadow with cows near the hamlet of Bötzlöh . In the background you can see one of several field trees that belong in the Bötzlöh area as an exclave to the Bockerter Heide nature reserve .
The access to the only parking lot in the nature reserve at Haus Waldfrieden from Hardter Straße (between M'gladbach-Rasseln and Viersen-Bockert ).

Habitats and species

Officially designated biotopes

According to the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia ( LANUV ), the Bockerter Heide nature reserve consists of two biotopes worthy of protection , namely:

  • NSG Bockerter Heide (in the narrower sense), biotope code number BK-4704-907
  • NSG Bockerter Heide (extended), biotope code BK-4704-908

Endangered bird species

The following bird species, whose population is endangered in North Rhine-Westphalia according to the Red List 2010 NRW , occur in the Bockerter Heide:

More bird species

Other bird species in the Bockerter Heide are ...
Blackbird ( Turdus merula ), blue tit ( Parus caeruleus ), blackcap ( Sylvia communis ), jay ( Garrulus glandarius ), magpie ( Pica pica ), fitis ( Phylloscopus trochilus ), garden warbler ( Sylvia borin ), yellow Mocker ( Hippolais icterina ) Goldammer ( Emberiza citrinella ) Grauschnäpper ( Muscicapa striata ), pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus ), Tit ( Parus major ), Misteldrossel ( Turdus viscivorus ) Mönchsgrasmücke ( Sylvia atricapilla ), Rabenkrähe ( Corvus corone ) , wood pigeon ( Columba palumbus ), Robins ( Erithacus rubecula ), thrush ( Turdus philomelos ), Sumpfrohrsänger ( Acrocephalus palustris ), Wren ( troglodytes troglodytes ) and Zilpzalp ( Phylloscopus collybita ).

Plant species

The following plant species in the Bockerter Heide ago:
sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ), Scotch broom ( Cytisus scoparius ), blackberries ( Rubus sectio Rubus ), Deschampsia flexuosa ( Deschampsia flexuosa ), Crataegus Hawthorn ( Crataegus monogyna ), chestnut ( Castanea sativa ), European Larch ( Larix decidua (subsp. Decidua) ), buckthorn ( Frangula alnus (subsp.alnus) ), field maple ( Acer campestre ), red spruce ( Picea abies ), rush ( Juncus effusus (subsp. Effusus) ), lady fern ( Athyrium filix-femina ) Gemeines bluegrass ( Poa trivialis (subsp. trivialis) ), mountain ash ( Sorbus aucuparia ), Cirsium vulgare ( Cirsium vulgare (subsp. vulgare) ), Arrhenatherum elatius ( Arrhenatherum elatius (subsp. elatius) ), torilis japonica ( Torilis japonica ), great nettle ( Urtica dioica ), grove bluegrass ( Poa nemoralis ), hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus ), hazelnut ( Corylus avellana ), raspberry ( Rubus idaeus ), dog-ostrich ( Agrostis canina ), Nodular figwort ( Scrophularia nodosa ), cornel cherry ( Cornus mas ), dewberry ( Rubus caesius ), downy birch ( Betula pubescens ), poplar undefined ( Populus spec. ), Pipe grass ( Molinia caerulea ), black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia ), rose indeterminate ( Rosa spec. ), Red oak ( Quercus rubra ), red beech ( Fagus sylvatica (subsp.sylvatica) ), red foxglove ( Digitalis purpurea (subsp.purpurea) ) , Sage germander ( Teucrium scorodonia ), sand birch ( Betula pendula ), sloe ( Prunus spinosa agg. ), Black alder ( Alnus glutinosa ), black elder (Sambucus nigra), pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur (subsp. Robur) ), sweet cherry ( Prunus avium ), marsh riding grass ( Calamagrostis canescens ), Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ), soft honey grass ( Holcus mollis (subsp. Mollis) ), willow undefined ( Salix spec. ), Hawthorn undefined ( Crataegus spec. ), White grove ( Luzula luzuloides ), winter linden ( Tilia cordata ), woolly honeygrass ( Holcus lanatus ), quaking aspen ( Populus tremula ) and double-pronged hawthorn ( Crataegus laevigata ).

The Bockerter Heide as a local recreation area

The Bockerter Heide is a local recreation area . The leading through the area hiking and rural roads are open all year accessible for cyclists and pedestrians. Driving through the area with cars or other motorized vehicles is not permitted.

The Waldfrieden House

On the edge of the Bockerter Heide, near Hardter Strasse, there is an excursion restaurant, the "Haus Waldfrieden" . In the immediate vicinity of the restaurant there is also a parking lot for cars, the way there can be driven from Hardter Straße by car. Right next to the mentioned Haus Waldfrieden there is also an information center with information boards, where the special features of the Bockerter Heide nature reserve are explained. Haus Waldfrieden was closed since January 2015 and was reopened in August 2018.

The Waldfrieden is located only 300  m from Mönchengladbach city limits, including those from here nearest village rattling is already a district of Mönchengladbach. With heavy visitor traffic, z. For example, on Sunday afternoons when the weather is nice, the proportion of vehicles parked here with Mönchengladbach license plates (“MG-…”) is considerable. It is sometimes assumed that the Waldfrieden house is in Mönchengladbach. However, this impression is deceptive: Haus Waldfrieden is already located in Viersen city ​​area, has a Viersener postal address and a Viersener area code (02162) in the landline network .

The closer environment

Bergerstrasse Bockert Oberbeberich
Ompert  Ummer
MG rattles Neighboring communities Bötzlöh  Helenabrunn
MG Hardt  MG squares NSG Bistheide
MG-Venn 		MG-Großheide

See also

Web links

Commons : Bockerter Heide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - LSG Bockerter, Bebericher Rinnenlandschaft (English)
  2. ↑ Law to safeguard the natural balance and the development of the landscape (Landscape Law - LG) ( Memento of the original of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 207 kB) (Online publication of the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on April 26, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.umwelt.nrw.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g "Bockerter Heide" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b "Bockerter Heide" nature reserve (Biotopes worthy of protection) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g "Bockerter Heide" nature reserve (habitats and species) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Waldfrieden (website of the excursion restaurant "Café Waldfrieden", Viersen, accessed on April 29, 2012)
  7. ^ City of Viersen: Bockerter Heide (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on April 29, 2012)
  8. ↑ Google search: Waldfrieden Mönchengladbach (Internet search application from " Google ", Mountain View, California, USA, accessed on April 29, 2012)

Protection notice

This article was written using factual and graphic data from the State Office for the Environment, Nature and Consumer Protection NRW (LANUV), updated on: April 26, 2012 .