High grove

High grove
On the high wood
height	378  m above sea level NHN
location	Bergisches Land , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Mountains	Nutscheid
Coordinates	50 ° 49'56 "  N , 7 ° 32'12"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49'56 "  N , 7 ° 32'12"  E.
particularities	Highest elevation in Nutscheid

The high forest is the approx. 378  m above sea level. NHN highest elevation of the Nutscheid . It is located in the north of the municipality of Windeck directly on the southwest border of the town of Waldbröl .

Nature reserve

The nature reserve "Hohes Wäldchen auf dem Nutscheid" is five hectares and was formerly used by the military. That is why the small area on the forest ridge was kept open, allowing dwarf shrub heather and lean grassland to develop. Dwarf shrub heaths are the first form of vegetation to spread on nutrient-poor sandy soils, but like lean grassland are often displaced by intensive cultivation. These areas are particularly threatened here by scrub with gorse and must therefore be kept open at all times. In 1999 the area became a nature reserve and since then it has been grazed regularly by sheep , whose browsing causes an expansion of the landscape, which has become rare.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Measurement based on the German base map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ^ "Hohes Wäldchen I" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
4. ^ "Hohes Wäldchen II" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
5. ↑ Hohes Wäldchen nature reserve ( Memento from December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )