Koblenz-Horchheimer Höhe

Koblenz-Horchheimer Höhe is a district of Koblenz . It is located on the right bank of the Rhine directly to the east of Horchheim , from which it arose with the construction of the first residential areas from 1964. Neighboring districts of Koblenz are - from northeast to southwest - Arzheim , Asterstein , Pfaffendorfer Höhe and Horchheim. There is no mayor and no local council in the district. It is also not a designated cultural monument . The Horchheimer Höhe includes the Gneisenau barracks and the Koblenz-Schmidtenhöhe on-site training area for the Bundeswehr.

Nature reserves

Parts of the store training area Koblenz-Schmidt height belonging to a protected area defined by the concept of a semi-open pasture land with Taurus cattle and Konikpferden is grazed to excessive Verbuschung to prevent. This is intended to preserve the appropriate habitat for rare species. Adjacent to the south is the Tongrube nature reserve on Escherfeld .

Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. City districts (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Vol. 3, 3). Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

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