Honnef city forest

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The Honnef Stadtwald is a forest area in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia that belongs entirely to the town of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district . It lies between the Rhine Valley with Bad Honnef city center in the west and its mountain-side district of Aegidienberg in the east. The forest area comprises the southern part of the Siebengebirge nature park and nature reserve .

history

Schaaffhausen cross in the Honnef city forest

The Honnef city forest has been used as a marrow forest since the high Middle Ages , in which both Honnef and Aegidienberg - which was partly cleared in its area - were involved in terms of usage rights. From the 14th century the Archbishop of Cologne was the owner of the highest market law, which could be exercised by the Honnef Bishop's Court with a forester . In this function, the archbishop was replaced by the new sovereign , the Duke of Berg , until 1555 . Under his supervision, a Waldgeding (forest court) was held annually on January 25th . The function of the forester took over the rent master of the office Löwenburg .

As a result of the transition to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806, the political and legal unity between Honnef and Aegidienberg came to an end. Since then, separate foresters have been working for both communities, and access to the part of the forest located in the foreign district is no longer unrestricted. It was regulated by a law that Honnef was allowed to cut frames for viticulture in the Aegidienberg part of the forest.

Since December 24th, 1816, the forest was under the forest supervision of the Prussian government in the district of the Oberförsterei Siebengebirge . In 1840, the forest area of 1250  hectares was finally divided between the communities of Honnef (650 hectares) and Aegidienberg (600 hectares), with the old rights of use being exercised by citizens until around 1850. The use of litter was restricted by bans at the end of the 19th century. The area of ​​the Honnef community forest had increased to 655 hectares in 1891 through the purchase of forest and meadow plots .

Manages the Honnefer municipal and later urban forest from initially was Forsthaus lion Hof , which until 1904 inventory and even not part of the urban forest. Later the Honnef city forester moved into a new forester's house at the Servatiushof . At the beginning of the 1960s, the Honnef municipal forest covered an area of ​​712 ha, including an unforested area of ​​16 ha. In the north, the city forest in the Löwenburg area changes into a forest area belonging to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which originally consisted of the parts Hartenbruch and Hohn and belonged to the respective sovereigns ( Counts of Sayn , Duke of Berg ) and later to the state of Prussia. There is also a forest area in the south of the city owned by the state, which was run as the Himmerich forestry district and was managed by a forester's house on the outskirts of Selhof from 1965 .

literature

  • Hellmut Schrader: The Honnef city forest . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 124–126.
  • J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 174-181 . (Reprint 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef)

Web links

Commons : Honnefer Stadtwald  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergischer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 70, 1949, p. 189.
  2. ^ German Hubert Christian Maaßen : History of the parishes of the dean's office in Königswinter . Cologne 1890, pp. 108/109. ( online )
  3. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Published by the author in collaboration with the community of Aegidienberg, Aegidienberg 1964, p. 71/72.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 39 ″  E