Dalwigker wood
The Dalwigker Holz is a forest area southeast of Korbach in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg . It consists of two neighboring beech-shaped deciduous forest complexes . The larger southern part, together with the "burned wood" located southwest of Dorfitter or southeast of Nieder-Ense , is part of the fauna-flora-habitat area 4719-303 "Dalwigker wood and burned wood near Korbach" and is after the European one Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Directive protected. The forest is named after the village of Dalwigk , which was destroyed in 1624 .
Geographical location
The forest consists of two parts, a smaller one in the north and a larger one in the south, both east of the federal highway 252 , separated from each other by a narrow, almost 200 m wide strip of agricultural area.
The northern part, rising from 385 to 418 m from west to east, lies east of the B 252 and south of the B 251 between the core town of Korbach in the north-west and the Korbach district of Meineringhausen in the north-east ( 51 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 36 ″ O ). About 300 to the west of its extreme western end, on the opposite side of the B 252, is the Dalwigk desert , after which the forest is named.
The two villages of Dorfitter in the southwest and Obernburg in the south, both districts of the municipality of Vöhl, are adjacent to the southern part ( 51 ° 14 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 29 ″ E ) which rises from 340 m in the west to over 420 m in the east . The Kuhbach , which is heading towards the Itter in the south, and a short section of the Lower Edertalbahn, which opened in 1900, closed in 1991 and reactivated in 2015, run along part of its west side (also known as the National Park Railway since 2015) between Frankenberg and Korbach. The former border between the Principality of Waldeck in the north and the Lordship of Itter or the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in the south ran along the east and south side of this forest area until 1918 .
Local recreation and sights
Both parts of the forest are accessible by hiking trails and forest roads. In particular, the 14th stage of the long-distance hiking trail Hessenweg 1 , from Herzhausen at the confluence of the Eder into the Edersee to Korbach, crosses the Dalwigker Holz.
In the eastern part of the northern part, on its highest elevation, is at approx. 418 m above sea level. NHN the Dalwigker Warte, also called Meineringhauser Warte ( 51 ° 15 ′ 4 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 50 ″ E ). The medieval round tower, once part of the outer city fortifications of Korbach, was not in good condition for a long time, but was restored in the 1990s. Today you can climb the control room via an outside staircase to a viewing platform.
natural reserve
The southern part of the Dalwigker Holz is part of the total of 135.77 hectares of fauna-flora-habitat area "Dalwigker Holz und Gebranntes Holz bei Korbach". Under protection are especially Hainsimsen- , woodruff and Orchid limestone beech forests of many with presence of rare species of plants, including rare orchids stocks , and high waste wood shares .
About 800 m east of Dorfitter, in the southern part of the Dalwigker Holz, on the steep southern slope above the Kuhbach, is the not touristic and FFH-protected Dalwigker Cave ( 51 ° 14 ′ 20 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 7 ″ E ), a karst cave 132 m long. It is considered to be the second largest accessible cave in North Hesse and was developed through a former mine tunnel that opened into the Kuhbachtal , which was created in 1916 during the search for copper ore . The cave is the habitat of numerous animal species adapted to the cave life and is one of the regionally important winter quarters for bats of the Myotis subgenus of the mouse-eared bats.
Immediately on the south-east edge, but outside the northern forest, is the natural monument "Krähenteich" ( 51 ° 14 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 45 ″ E ) at 405 m above sea level , a 0.28 hectare wetland with a pond that the bird and amphibian conservation acts.
Footnotes
- ↑ Hessenweg stage 14 Edersee - Korbach
- ↑ Dalwigker Warte (34497 Korbach), at www.warttuerme.de ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii), pond bat (Myotis dasycneme), large mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis); Profiles of Natura 2000 areas: 4719-303 Dalwigker wood and burned wood near Korbach (FFH area)
- ↑ ND 14 004 - Korbach - Krähenteich
