Fürstenberg Maar

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Fürstenberg Maar
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View of the Fürstenbergmaar
Geographical location Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Drain to the Boisdorfer See
Location close to the shore Kerpen ( Türnich district ), Frechen
Data
Coordinates 50 ° 52 '54 "  N , 6 ° 46' 9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '54 "  N , 6 ° 46' 9"  E
Fürstenberg-Maar (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Fürstenberg Maar
surface 7.7 ha
length 640 m
width 270 m
Maximum depth 6 m

particularities

Open pit residual lake

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The Fürstenberg-Maar (spelling also Fürstenbergmaar ) is a shallow, swampy lake (regional name: Maar ) in the Ville between Kerpen and Frechen ( Rhein-Erft district ). The lake is located northeast of the Kerpen district of Türnich , southeast of the Marienfeld and south of the Frechen district of Grefrath .

The lake, which - like most of the villa lakes - is an artificial open-cast mine, was created close to nature. Together with its surroundings, it forms a nature reserve (BM-009) that is integrated into the Rhineland Nature Park .

Nature reserve

The nature reserve with the Fürstenbergmaar in the center, surrounded by forest, bush and grassland lean, offers a variety of moisture-loving plants and animals habitat, including the endangered toad species Natterjack Toad and Toad . There are also many water birds, amphibian species such as the mountain newt and dragonfly species , including rare ones such as the banded darter or the blue-winged dragonfly .

Fishing, swimming, diving and other water sports are not permitted in the water. Access to the shore for walkers and vehicles is restricted, the lake with its animals and plants should be left to its own devices undisturbed.

An artificially created watercourse, the Fürstenberggraben , connects the Fürstenbergmaar across the Marienfeld with the Boisdorf lake, about 4 km further north-west . The Fürstenbergmaar is hydrologically connected to the Erft via the moat and the lake and forms a biotope network with the Kerpener Bruch and the other Kerpener nature reserves .

Emergence

The lake was created in 1982 during the recultivation of the Frechen opencast mine . After the opencast mine had been charred, a residual hole was deliberately left in the site during backfilling , which was filled with groundwater after the dewatering was stopped.

The lake takes its name from the " Graf Fürstenberg " ( "Fürstenberg" for short ) mine, a lignite mine with an attached briquette factory , which was opened at this point as early as 1901. The namesake for this pit came from the landowners, the Rhenish line of the Counts of Fürstenberg based in Cologne-Stammheim . The von Fürstenberg-Stammheim family, in the person of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim , bought Bachem Castle from the Counts of Geldern in 1836 . The Umschlag brown coal mine was one of the extensive properties belonging to the castle . This field was supplemented by the Clarenberg mutation in 1834 , expanded in 1859 and divided into three fields in 1900: Graf Fürstenberg , Wachtberg and Clarenberg . The former field was leased by Gisbert Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim to the mining company SA des Mines Comte Furstenberg . The sponsors of the company, which was based in Brussels , came from Belgium; but its president was the German Willi Baare , an entrepreneur with experience in the Ruhr coal mining.

In 1921 the Fürstenberg mine came into the possession of the Algemeene Bruinkool Compagnie , based in Amsterdam, and from 1937 to Viktor Rolff KG . From 1950 the Graf Fürstenberg mine was combined with neighboring mines to form the Frechen central open-cast mine ; the Graf Fürstenberg briquette factory ceased operations in 1967 and was demolished in 1968–1970.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d "Fürstenbergmaar" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Fürstenberggraben. Rhein-Erft Tourismus eV, accessed on January 3, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b Cheeky. (No longer available online.) Research Center Recultivation, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 2, 2012 . 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forschungsstellerekultivierung.de
  4. ↑ a b The Marienfeld in Kerpen. The history of the place for the graduation ceremonies of the XX. World Youth Day 2005. City of Kerpen, accessed on January 3, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b c Karl Pokschewinski, Volker students , Manfred Coenen: briquette and sidings in the Rhenish lignite mining . Lokrundschau-Verlag, Gülzow 2004, ISBN 3-931647-18-8 .
  6. ↑ Volker HW pupil : The Clarenberg Actien-Gesellschaft for the coal and clay industry in Frechen near Cologne 1893–1971 . In: Frechener Geschichtsverein. Yearbook . 2005, ISSN 1869-2516 , p.   81–124 ( full text on dbhverlag.de [PDF; 1.9 MB ]).
  7. ^ Marie-Thérèse Bitsch: La Belgique entre la France et l'Allemagne. 1905-1914 (=  Histoire de la France aux XIXe et XXe siècles . Vol. 48). Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-85944-239-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).