Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park
The German - Belgian nature park Hohes Venn – Eifel , the German part of which is also known as the Nordeifel nature park , is a cross-border nature park with an area of 1660 km² in North Rhine-Westphalia and 400 km² in Rhineland-Palatinate and 700 km² in the Belgian province of Liège . It has a total size of 2760 km²
location
The nature park is located between Langerwehe and Eupen in the north and Bad Münstereifel , Prüm and Sankt Vith in the south and comprises six areas: the Rureifel , the Western High Eifel , the Kalkeifel , the Ourtal , the Venn foreland and the High Fens , a high moor and heather landscape, which was formed at the end of the last ice age 7,500 years ago.
The geographical name Nordeifel describes strictly speaking only the Eifel landscape between Zitterwald the south and Aachen in the north, Bad Münstereifel on the east and on the Rureifel to the Belgian border in the west. The High Fens is viewed geographically as an independent natural area of the entire Eifel, but is included in the nature park.
From 2020 areas in Aachen and in the communities Langerwehe, Kreuzau and Vettweiß were added. These are the slopes west of the Wehebach near Langerwehe, the Ruraue near Kreuzau and the Drover Heide near Vettweiß. As a result, the area of the nature park was enlarged by 60 km².
history
In 1960 , Hubert Schmitt-Degenhardt , the regional president of the then still existing administrative district of Aachen , founded the association Naturpark Nordeifel e. V., whose chairmen were after him the former mayor of Schleiden and the former municipality director of Hürtgenwald , Günter Schumacher. The Rhineland-Palatinate part of the North Eifel Nature Park was designated as a landscape protection area of the North Eifel Nature Park on November 6, 1970 by an ordinance issued by the Prüm District Office .
With the government agreement of February 3, 1971, the North Rhine-Westphalian and Rhineland-Palatinate parts of the North Eifel Nature Park were merged with the Belgian Parc Naturel Hautes Fagnes to form the Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park. The emblem of the nature park is the black grouse .
Eifel National Park
The Eifel National Park, founded in 2004 and expanded on January 1, 2006 after the withdrawal of the Belgian armed forces, is located in the middle of the nature park, mainly on the former Vogelsang military training area and around the Urftstausee .
See also
literature
- Baedeker travel guide Belgium