Hohe Mark (with Rekener peaks)

High mark
	Waldbeerenberg with witch beech
Highest peak	Waldbeerenberg ( 145.9 m above sea level )
location	District of Borken (N) and District of Recklinghausen (S), North Rhine-Westphalia
part of	Halterner Berge , Westmünsterland
Classification according to	Federal Institute for Regional Studies , BfN
Coordinates	51 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 7 ′ E Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 7 ′ E

The Hohe Mark is one to 145.9 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the southern Münsterland in the districts of Borken and Recklinghausen . It is located within the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland Nature Park , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ), which connects to the Ruhr area to the north .

The Hohe Mark, together with its northwestern foothills, which also include the mountain ranges Rekener Berge (up to 133.8 m ) and Die Berge (up to 107.4 m ), form the natural subunit Hohe Mark (with Rekener Kuppen) of the main unit Westmünsterland .

geography

location

The maximally 145.9 m high central hill country of the Hohen Mark and its immediate slope, which have a circumference of about 38 km and are almost undeveloped and continuously forested, extend a few kilometers north of the Ruhr area between Reken in the north-west and its part of the municipality Maria Veen in the north , Dülmen - Merfeld some distance in the northeast, Haltern- Sythen in the east, Haltern am See in the south, Dorsten - Barkenberg in the southwest and Dorsten- Lembeck in the west.

To the northwest, the ridge continues through the Rekener Kuppen , which includes the Rekener Berge (up to 133.8 m ) north of (Groß) Rekens and, even further to the west-northwest, The Mountains (up to 107.4 m ), which to the west until immediately before Barken and Gemen and to the north reach Ramsdorf . Both mountain ranges are separated from the heartland of the Hohe Mark as well as from each other by clearings and roads, and the Reken mountains are only partially forested.

To the east, beyond the Haltern Mühlenbach, are the Borkenberge (up to 107.4 m ). The Hohe Mark and Borkenberge are separated from the Haard (up to 153.8 m ) to the south by the valley of the Lippe .

Orographic boundaries

Orographically , the heartland of the Hohen Mark is bounded to the northwest and west by the Halterner Mühlenbach ( called Heubach before it changes direction from southeast to southwest ), which then flows into the Haltern reservoir and later via the estuary of the Stever der Lippe , which in its further course flows into In the south-west it forms the southern border and is accompanied by the Wesel-Datteln Canal . The Midlicher Mühlenbach (in the upper reaches: Kuse Becke ) forms, further clockwise, finally a western border upstream.

Natural structure

The Hohe Mark is structured as follows (in the finer sub-units with two decimal places, individual localities are linked for better localization):

(to 544 Westmünsterland )
- 544.3 Hohe Mark (with Rekener Kuppen) (up to 145.9 m)
  - 544.30 Central hill country of the Hohen Mark (up to 145.9 m - Waldbeerenberg , center)
  - 544.31 Geisheide-Schmaloer sand waves (northeast cover )
  - 544.34 Strock- Eppendorfer Flachwellen (south to south-west cover , west to Barkenberg )

The units 544.30–544.34 plus the east (up to about the railway line between the Reken districts of Klein Reken and Maria Veen) of 544.35 can be viewed as Hohe Mark in the narrower sense - all of the following units represent the Reken peaks .

Surveys

Heartland of the Hohe Mark

The surveys of the heartland of the Hohe Mark (unless otherwise indicated under 544.30) include - sorted by height in meters above mean sea level (NHN):

Waldbeerenberg ( 145.9 m ; with Haltern telecommunications tower and Hexenbuche natural monument ) - north-north-west of Holtwick
Granatsberg ( 135.5 m ) - east-southeast of Klein Reken
Hasenberg ( 131.5 m ; with fire watch tower ) - in a military training area west-northwest of Lavesum

Beusberg ( 123.8 m ) - northwest of Holtwick

Galgenberg ( 122.9 m ; with fire watch tower ) - north-northeast of Barkenberg

Maiberg ( 110.1 m ) - east of Klein Reken

Rötelberg ( 98.3 m ) - east-southeast of Lavesum, immediately west of the A 43 (544.32)

Kortenberg ( 98 m ) - south of Klein Reken, extreme west

Blomberg ( 92.7 m ) - northwestern interface to the Rekener Mountains , north of (Reken-) Hülstens (544.35)

Haversberg ( 74.6 m ) - north of Eppendorf, extreme south (544.34)

St. Annaberg ( 74.5 m ) - extreme south, south of the federal highway 58 and east of the A 43; with pilgrimage chapel, southwest of Haltern (544.33)

Twebrink ( 67.1 m ) - on the north-northeastern slope of the Hasenberg towards the Weißes Venn (544.31)

Barkenberg (approx. 57 m ) - south-westerly spur with populated Dorsten (- Wulfener ) district (544.34)

Rekener Kuppen

For the elevations in the north-west of the Hohe Mark natural area (with Reken peaks) see:

Elevations of the Reken mountains (up to 133.8 m )
Elevations of the mountains (up to 107.4 m )

geology

Telecommunication tower Haltern

Landscape image

The Hohe Mark is a small, Ice Age hill country made of sandstone . Although it is only a very small, wooded ridge, it is the largest contiguous forest area north of the Ruhr area, along with the Haard, which adjoins it to the south . In addition to the forest, it consists of fields , meadows and moors .

Apart from a few farmers , the Hohe Mark is almost uninhabited and only crossed by small country roads. On the northern edge the White Venn are (a part abgetorftes bog) and the amusement park Ketteler Hof (SSE from Hasenberg).

On the Waldbeerenberg, the highest point of the Hohe Mark, is the natural monument Hexenbuche , a small group of rare and strangely twisted Süntelbuchen ; Not far from there is the Haltern telecommunications tower .

Traffic and walking

The federal highway 31 runs west of the heartland of the Hohen Mark over the west of the Rekener mountains to the north. Opposite this, the parallel federal highway 43 passes the eastern roof of the Hohen Mark. The federal highway 67 , which runs in a west-east direction, flanks the north of the heartland and the Reken mountains and separates the mountains to the north-west. The southern roofing of the Hohen Mark is accompanied by the federal road 58 .

Numerous hiking trails run through the wooded area.

photo

and display information about the image

Panorama, in the background the telecommunications tower Haltern

literature

Bruno Oelmann, Rolf Sonderkamp: On crooked tours through the Mark - The Hohe Mark Guide. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0118-6 .

Web links

Natural area maps from the single sheets 1: 200.000 of the Federal Institute for Regional Studies - relevant here are all units starting with "544.3" on sheet 95/96 - Kleve / Wesel (east)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
^ Wilhelm von Kürten: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 95/96 Kleve / Wesel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1977. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
↑ In the north of the settlement of the Barkenberg, the 55 m line is just exceeded.

[TIM-1] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )

[HNGD-2] Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).

[BfL-096-3] Wilhelm von Kürten: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 95/96 Kleve / Wesel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1977. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)

[Barkenberg-4] In the north of the settlement of the Barkenberg, the 55 m line is just exceeded.