Eller Forest

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The Eller Forest is a partially managed forest area in the Eller district of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf . It is part of the Düsseldorf city forest and lies between the districts of Eller, Unterbach and Vennhausen . Together with the directly adjacent Unterbacher See , it forms a local recreation area, especially for the residents of the cities of Düsseldorf, Erkrath and Hilden .

Nature and landscape protection

Oak in the alder forest area on Siebenbrückenweg in the NSG Eller Forst (2016)

The part to the south-east of the Kikweg near Unterbach has been designated as the Eller Forest nature reserve with around 95 hectares since 1954 . The north-western areas of the forest are in the landscape protection area of ​​the city of Düsseldorf .

The Eller Forest originated - like many of today's nature reserves in Düsseldorf - from an extensive marshland of the Old Rhine in the south of Düsseldorf, which in ancient times was largely drained and whose water was concentrated in the Unterbach lake system. For the first time, parts of the forest were protected as the Eller Forest bird sanctuary in 1935 . In the 1980s it was recognized that it was worthy of protection, the drainage ditches were filled in in the protected part and the management of the forest largely stopped.

The part of the forest, which is under nature protection, is characterized by a system of wet meadows and forest pools . In the outer regions of the forest there is a from oak , ash and hornbeam educated Bruchwald that toward its center in a Erlenbruchwald passes: The black alder is the only species that can exist in this almost permanently flooded area.

Since the end of the 2000s, the flora and fauna of the Eller Forest has been subjected to intensive monitoring. In addition to the amphibians typical of wetlands , 41 breeding bird species have been identified there, including the gray heron , marsh tit , wren , goshawk and reed warbler . Water feather and elm hairstreak can be found on the Red List of Endangered Species .

tourism

The Sauerland Mountain Association looks after the two circular hiking trails in the Eller Forest, which also include the so-called Siebenbrückenweg . There is a monument in memory of the Düsseldorf resistance fighter Else Gores .

Web links

Commons : Eller Forst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Nature reserve "D-001 Eller Forst" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  2. Eller Forest nature reserve. State capital Düsseldorf, accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  3. SGV circular route A1
  4. SGV circular route A2

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 22 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 12 ″  E