Cap bush
The Kappenbusch , also shown on maps as the Kappenbusch landscape protection area , sometimes also called Kattenbusch , is an eight-hectare forest in Hamm , in the Heessen district . It has a west-east extension of around 400 meters, from north to south it measures around 330 meters at its widest point in the east. The forest is located immediately to the east of the former Heessen open-air swimming pool and the Kappenbuschschule , the northernmost elementary school in Hamm, which was named after him. A tongue of forest around 50 meters wide extends, following a stream, between the facilities mentioned to the west to the street An der Marienkirche. In the north and east there are building plots (in the latter only limited by a footpath), so the residents there live right on the edge of the forest. Only in the northeast does the forest border on Magnolienstraße for around 100 meters and in the southeast on 200 meters on Sulkshege street . In the south the forest is completely traversed by a stream from west to east. It only runs above ground within the forest, following a natural-looking, meandering course. Upstream and downstream, the stream runs underground under construction and settlement land. The forest is a central recreational area for the center of Heessen, especially for the residents of the neighboring houses. Numerous hiking trails were laid out and a wooden suspension bridge was installed over the stream in the western area. There is a parking lot to the west and the hiking trails lead to the surrounding streets. In the north, immediately south of the pool, there is a playground and football field. Consequently, the forest is included in the game for the Heessen youth. In addition to the purpose of recreation, i.e. for walking, running dogs and jogging, the forest also has a certain importance as a source of firewood for the residents, sometimes illegally used.
history
The cap bush is the remainder of a forest that originally covered a large part of Dasbeck. In 1936 the municipality of Heessen acquired the Kappenbusch, which at that time still comprised 178 hectares. A spacious residential area was to be created here, far from the colliery Saxony and the coking plant with the bad air.
Waters
The stream described has its headwaters west of the Kappenbusch in the area of the Heessen sports field. After leaving the forest, it feeds a small pond in the Kersenbrock at around 250 meters, then continues both above and below ground and then flows into the Enniger Bach. In the north, right on the edge of the Kappenbusch forest, there is a 600 m² pond.
Others
There was a rubbish dump in the area of the Kappenbusch. A bomb crater is said to have been filled with garbage there.
After the Heessen open-air swimming pool was given up, against the resistance of the population, there are demands to reforest the area of the open-air swimming pool and thus to "return" it to the Kappenbusch, from which it was taken in 1975 when the pool was built.
The renaming of the elementary school in Kappenbuschschule became necessary after the territorial reform in 1976. Originally the school was called Matthias Claudius School. The former town of Heessen used to belong to the Beckum district. As part of the municipal reorganization, Heessen was assigned to the Groß-Hamm school district (Arnsberg district). In January 1977, some of the Heessen schools were renamed. The Matthias Claudius School is one of them. This renaming had become necessary because after the municipal reorganization, many Hammer schools had the same name.
See also
- Article about the street Sulkehege
- Internet presence of the Kappenbuschschule with mention of the forest and the football field
Footnotes
- ↑ Page History of the Kappenbusch School
- ↑ Statement on the website of the Kappenbuschschule
- ↑ Holzklau im Kappenbusch , article from December 16, 2014
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Website of the Kappenbuschschule, history