Lochfeld House
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 51 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 59 ″ E
The house Lochfeld is a cultural landscape center in the village Mandelbachtal in the Saarland between Ormesheimer Mountain in the north and Heidenkopf in the southwest above the local part Wittersheim to 320 m above sea level amidst the biosphere reserve Bliesgau . The aim of the center is to protect the cultural landscape.
The Lochfeld house is a former rural property (built around 1900), which since 1999 has become a center for cultural landscape management and landscape protection from a sustainable perspective ("think globally, act locally") with the support of the EU . The initiator of the expansion is the special purpose association “Saar-Blies-Gau / Auf der Lohe”, which in turn is supported by the Naturland Foundation Saar , the communities of Mandelbachtal and Gersheim and the Saarpfalz district . Haus Lochfeld offers its visitors the opportunity to better recognize and understand connections in nature , the environment and the landscape of the Bliesgau. This is intended to increase the appreciation of an intact cultural landscape and promote an increased understanding of measures to protect it.
In addition to offices for employees, the house also offers a small exhibition and a seminar room for up to 50 participants.
In terms of energy, Haus Lochfeld is largely self-sufficient: Since 2001, the power and heat supply of the cultural landscape center has been secured by a vegetable oil engine with an electrical output of 10 kW and a thermal output of approx. 16 kW. In addition, the building is supplied via a photovoltaic system , a solar collector system and a rapeseed oil boiler system. The vegetable oil block-type thermal power station, a diesel engine optimized for cold-pressed rapeseed oil , is started up and shut down by a higher-level regulation / control system according to the need for electrical energy. The generated electrical energy is loaded into a battery storage system, which is initially discharged with priority when there is another power requirement. The heat output of the block-type thermal power station that can be extracted is fed into the consumer circuits or, if there is an excess, loaded into the heat storage . The water supply and disposal takes place via its own well , a rainwater cistern and its own sewage treatment plant .
The center offers the following model systems
- ecological vineyard (varieties Auxerrois and Blauer Portugieser )
- Orchard meadow
- Herb garden
- Cottage garden
- Apiary
- rose Garden
- Berry garden
- Fruit variety garden
In addition, wild bushes and wild rose hedges are presented. Old mulberry trees , which were planted in the Bliesgau as early as Roman times, as well as what is probably the oldest medlar tree (Saarland: "Hundsärsch") in the Saarland are a specialty .
In the house itself, in addition to special exhibitions, the history of the cultural landscape as well as nature and cultural landscape protection is presented.
literature
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): Experience nature - The cultural landscape center Haus Lochfeld Mandelbachtal, 4th edition 2013