Lever forest
The Lever Wald is a wooded area in the municipality of Stemwede in the Minden-Lübbecke district . With around 550 hectares of forest, it is the second largest forest in the municipality (after the mountain forest of the Stemweder Berg ). The Lever Wald is located relatively centrally within the municipality of Stemwede, essentially in the area of the districts of Twiehausen and Niedermehnen , although there are no larger localities in its immediate vicinity. Levern, which gives it its name, is around 3.5 km southwest of the edge of the forest, just as far as the village of Wehdem to the northwest. Together with the Espelkamp forests (Kleihügel, Gabelhorst), the Osterwald, the Pohlschen Heide, the Mindener Wald and the Heisterholz , the Lever Forest forms a not completely closed, but significant forest belt that connects the northern Minden-Lübbecker Land along the L770 road runs through a length of 31 kilometers and continues in the Schaumburg Forest .
The eastern border of the Lever Forest is formed by the Twiehauser Bach, an approximately ten kilometer long tributary of the Great Dieck River .
fauna
In the ditch systems that cross the Lever Forest, the dragonfly species helmet-azure virgin and bird-azure virgin could be detected. In the case of the Vogel-Azurjungfer, it is the only occurrence in North Rhine-Westphalia besides the Mehner Bruch, which is also located in the district.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nature in NRW 2/2007; State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (PDF; 3.2 MB) ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 12 ″ N , 8 ° 30 ′ 55 ″ E