Hienheim Forest

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E

The community-free area of ​​Hienheimer Forst

Foundation of a Roman Limes watchtower in the Hienheim Forest

The Hienheimer Forst is a 23.55 km² community-free area in the Kelheim district in Lower Bavaria . It is located in front of the confluence of the Altmühl in the Danube south of Riedenburg and west of Kelheim . It is forested and uninhabited.

use

The area is mainly used for near-natural forestry. It is known for its oak forests . The choir stalls of Cologne Cathedral and the foundation piles of the Ingolstadt fortress come largely from the Hienheim forest.

The "Ludwigshain" nature reserve is located in the middle of the Hienheim Forest. The special thing about "Ludwigshain" is that natural forest development has been going on here for around 100 years without any major forestry use. The later Bavarian King Ludwig III. visited Kelheim in 1906 and was very impressed by the forest with its old oak trees. In his honor, the forest parcel was declared a nature reserve in 1913. It was designated a nature reserve in 1939. It has a size of about 2.4 hectares.

See also

• List of unincorporated areas in Bavaria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GENESIS table: 11111-003. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, accessed on June 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ "Ludwigshain" nature reserve

Web links

Commons : Hienheimer Forst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Expansion of the community-free area in OpenStreetMap (accessed on November 18, 2017)