Leuscheid

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Leuscheid
Highest peak High damage , bump head ( 388  m )
location Rhein - Sieg district , North Rhine-Westphalia , and Altenkirchen district , Rhineland-Palatinate
part of Mittelieg-Berglandes or Westerwaldes
Classification according to Meynen and BfN or common
Leuscheid (Germany)
Leuscheid
Coordinates 50 ° 44 ′  N , 7 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′  N , 7 ° 34 ′  E
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The basalt quarry Blauer Stein near Kuchhausen

The (occasionally also the ) Leuscheid is a largely wooded range of hills on the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate in the far north of the Westerwald . In terms of nature, however, it is no longer counted under the code number 330.00 to the main unit group Westerwald , but to the Mittelieg-Bergland (main unit 330) and thus to the southern mountainous region (main unit group 33).

Location and limits

The Leuscheid lies on the watershed between Sieg and Wied and, to the north and northwest, directly meets the Mitteliegtal between Hamm (Sieg) in the east and Eitorf in the west. In the south it frames at the interface to the Asbach-Altenkirchener plateaus , from west to east, in particular the places Kircheib , Weyerbusch and Eichelhardt . The eastern border to the Nisterbergland is the valley of the Seelbach .

The Leuscheid in the narrower sense

The Leuscheid in the narrower sense represents the almost continuously wooded western half of this ridge, which extends to the east (from north to south) to the Windecker districts Niederalsen , Oberalsen and Kuchhausen as well as, on the Rhineland-Palatinate side, the districts of Oberirsen . It is almost continuously under special protection as a nature reserve or FFH area .

Rivers

The watershed between the Sieg in the north and the much more distant Wied in the south runs centrally in the west over the Leuscheid, in the east rather over its south. In the headwaters of the Irsenbach, the watershed even runs south of the southern border.

In the following, the flowing waters of the Leuscheid are classified according to their target rivers.
(→ see also the list of rivers in the Westerwald )

Tributaries of victory

To Sieg in more northerly directions, the following rivers flow in the immediate vicinity of the Leuscheid (downwards from the east to west, length and catchment area in brackets):

  • Seelbach (8.2 km, 19.3 km²) - rises immediately southeast of the Leuscheid and forms the outer eastern border
  • Irsenbach (12.0 km, 36.9 km²) - rises just south of the Leuscheid and flows through it centrally to the north
  • Eipbach (10.1 km, 23.8 km²) - rises southwest just outside and forms the inner western border
  • Krabach (10.2 km, 19.8 km²) - rises southwest just outside and forms the outer western border
  • Hanfbach (19.0 km, 51.5 km²) - rises to the southwest just outside and flows away to the northwest from the Leuscheid

None of these rivers originate directly within the natural limits of the Leuscheid.

Tributaries of the Wied

To Wied in more southerly directions, the following rivers flow on the Leuscheid or in the immediate vicinity (again downwards from east to west, length and catchment area in brackets):

  • Erbach (7.9 km, 33.2 km²) - rises in the southwest
  • Ölfenerbach (6.7 km, 8.0 km²) - rises south just outside, east of the Irsenbach source
  • Hemmelzerbach (6.2 km, 11.9 km²) - rises in the extreme south, west of the Irsenbach source
  • Mehrbach (22.9 km, 65.9 km²) rises in the east of the western part, centrally near the Mönchskopf
  • Pfaffenbach (20.6 km, 62.6 km²) - rises in a south-western foothill immediately south of Frankfurter Straße ( B8 )

mountains

View of the Leuscheid over the Sieg near Stromberg (Windeck)
Remnants of V1 position
Bomb crater

The mountains of the Leuscheid include in particular (coordinates of mountains without articles in brackets):

natural reserve

The associated with North Rhine-Westphalia north of Leuscheid in the narrow sense belongs to the Eitorfer Switzerland in the far west, mostly to 1,384.7 ha large, opened in September 2004 nature reserve forests on the Leuscheid that in Stromberg directly up to the victory enough . The tree population in the area consists mainly of spruce (49%, should be reduced), beech (20%), oak (16%) and pine (8%).
Within this nature reserve there are in turn the two FFH areas Wohmbach and tributaries (63 ha) and beech forests on the Leuscheid (142 ha).

The small (13.02 ha) nature reserve basalt quarry Eitorf - Stein lies within Eitorfer Schweiz .

The south side of the Leuscheid in the narrower sense, located in Rhineland-Palatinate, largely belongs to the 1.138 ha FFH area Leuscheider Heide .

history

The Leuscheid, like the Nutscheid located on the other bank of the Sieg, was intended as a launching base for V1 rockets during the Second World War . There were three V1 positions in the area of ​​the Leuscheid. One above the village of Kuchhausen, one just before the long straight towards Weyerbusch and a position at the end of it. A fourth position was in the Weyerbusch / Heuberg area. A V1 was not started from any of these positions. When the Americans crossed the Rhine unexpectedly, the positions were abandoned. V2 rockets were not used in the Leuscheid. Towards the end of the war, the area was bombed by the Allies. Numerous bomb craters next to the L276 testify to this.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flow data from TIM online - NRW
  2. ↑ Water Management Administration Rhineland-Palatinate - data via GeoExplorer
  3. ↑ Leuscheider Heide profile - PDF
  4. ↑ BfN : Interactive map services ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  5. ↑ Homeland yearbook of the Altenkirchen district 2003

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