Broich-Speldorfer Forest
The Broich-Speldorfer Wald is the part of an approximately 39 km² large contiguous forest area located in the Mülheim area between the cities of Duisburg , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Ratingen and Düsseldorf . For the most part, it is owned by the city of Mülheim and, together with the Lintorfer Mark, forms part of an approx. 900 hectare landscape protection area with forestry use, which, however, with its narrow network of paths - together with the Duisburg city forest - is primarily used for local recreation. The area of a meandering brook (Wambach) , which flows through the forest area from northeast to southwest and flows into a lake created by excavation, the duck catching , is designated as a nature reserve.
features
The characteristics such as location, botany and history essentially correspond to those of the Duisburg city forest. Like this, the Broich-Speldorfer Wald is cut through by some, partly the same, heavily used traffic routes: through Duisburger Strasse in the north, through the A3 motorway in the southwest and in the middle from west to east through Uhlenhorstweg, which is next to Duisburger Strasse represents an important direct road connection between the centers of Mülheim and Duisburg. There are also the Worringer Reitweg and the Großenbaumer Straße, which also lead to Duisburg. Along the Uhlenhorstweg and the Großenbaumer Straße there are park-like private properties with entrepreneurial villas that were created by industrialists at the beginning of the last century as part of a settlement project “Broich-Speldorfer Gartenstadt AG” (minimum size of a property 12,500 m²). These include a villa built by Kommerzienrat Küchen , a grandson of Mathias Stinnes , which is now run as a hotel and restaurant under the name "Residenz Uhlenhorst"; the " Streithof " was built in 1907 by Emil Kirdorf , with changing uses, today owned by a Duisburg private institute; and the "Villa Anita", built in 1912 by Fritz Thyssen , owned by the Grillo family from 1973 to 1999 , today divided into several individual apartments as "Villa Park Uhlenhorst". The sports facilities of the HTC Uhlenhorst are located in the western part of the Uhlenhorstweg . Along the Uhlenhorstweg to the west, tram line 102 runs on its own track for about 900 m to the former Uhlenhorst restaurant, which was destroyed during the war and not rebuilt.
Web links
- The Broich-Speldorfer forest and garden city
- Landscape plan online / development goals / overview
- Hammerstein
- Forest history
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 30 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 42 ″ E