Arnsberg Forest Nature Park

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Location of the nature park in Germany
The Arnsberg Forest in the Markshagen area with the village of Hirschberg (top right) from the air
Meschede with the Arnsberg Forest

The Arnsberg Forest Nature Park is a 599 km² nature park in the Hochsauerlandkreis and Soest district in the administrative district of Arnsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

The nature park mainly includes the up to 581.5  m above sea level. NHN ( Plackweghöhe ) high, mostly wooded low mountain range of the North Sauerland Oberland in the angle between the Ruhr and Möhne . In addition to the Arnsberg Forest (in the narrower sense), these are the Warsteiner Hügelland , the Plackwald and the parts of Obermöhne- and Almewald to the left of the Möhne . In 2020, the nature park was also expanded to include most of the Arnsberg urban area.

The nature park, founded in 1961, is an important regional economic factor because of its timber industry and good recreational opportunities. The western Arnsberg Forest was formerly part of the larger Lürwald , which was owned by the Counts of Arnsberg and later the Electors of Cologne .

geography

location

The Arnsberger Wald nature park lies between the Möhne , on which the Möhnesee is located, in the north and the deeply cut Ruhr in the south. Between these two river valleys, the park extends between the municipalities of Arnsberg in the southwest, Möhnesee in the northwest, Rüthen in the northeast, Brilon in the east, Olsberg in the southeast, Meschede and Bestwig in the south; Warstein is located within the nature park area . In the north the extensive nature park area meets the Haarstrang , in the east the Briloner Höhen , in the south the Rothaargebirge , in the southwest it merges into the Sauerland Lennegebirge and in the west the area gradually slopes down towards Dortmund to the Ruhr area .

Waters

The most famous still water in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park is the Möhnesee , which extends in the Möhne valley between the Haarstrang in the north and the Arnsberg Forest in the south. Numerous rivers run through the wooded landscape. This includes in particular the Ruhr and Möhne, which delimit the forest area, but also other Möhne and Ruhr tributaries that arise in the nature park:

The Heve rises on the Brandenberg and flows into the Möhnesee

Ruhr ( Rhine tributary near Duisburg-Ruhrort)

  • Möhne (Ruhr tributary near Neheim)
    • Biber (Möhne tributary near Rüthen)
    • Glenne (Möhne tributary northwest of Rüthen-Kallenhardt)
      • Lörmecke (Glenne tributary between Suttrop and Kallenhardt)
    • Heve (Möhne tributary, confluence with the southern arm of the Möhnestausees)
    • Wester (Möhne tributary at Belecke)
  • Wanne (Ruhr inflow at Niedereimer)

mountains

The highest mountains and peaks of the Arnsberger Wald nature park are located in the Plackwald on the watershed between the Ruhr and Möhne. Many of the highest peaks of this ridge, on which the historic Plackweg trade route ran, are nameless or largely unknown.

The mountains, elevations, spurs and other prominent, high-lying areas of the nature park include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (MSL; unless otherwise specified according to):

  • Plackweghöhe (581.5 m), north-northeast of Eversberg (on Plackweg ); with Lörmecke tower
  • Nameless summit (559.5 m), north-northeast of Antfeld (near Brilon - Esshof )
  • Nameless summit (557.4 m), south-southeast of the Meschede telecommunications tower
  • Warsteiner Kopf (556.9 m), north-northeast of Eversberg
  • Gemeinheitskopf (551.9 m), north-northwest of Föckinghausen
  • Nameless knoll (550.6 m), northwest of the Meschede telecommunications tower (on Plackweg )
  • Niekopf (550.4 m), north of Eversberg; Source area of ​​the Wideybach
  • Ebberg (548.9 m), north of Antfeld (near Brilon-Esshof)
  • Wiemert (544.2 m), north of Föckinghausen
  • Ensterknick (543.2 m), parcel / living space north of Meschede - Galiläa (on Plackweg )
  • Nuttlarer Höhe (542.2 m), north of Nuttlar
  • Stimmstamm (541.1 m), pass at the B 55 , north of Meschede
  • Sengenberg (530.4 m), east of Föckinghausen
  • Liverhagen (522.6 m), north of Eversberg
  • Moosberg (522.0 m), north of Meschede
  • Voßstein ( Ostkuppe , 521.1 m), southeast of Grimlinghausen and north of Antfeld
  • Hornscheid (519.7 m), north of Eversberg
  • Vossstein (middle knoll, 519.7 m), southeast
  • Greverhagen (514.6 m), north of Meschede
  • Vossstein (west tip, 512.3 m), southeast
  • Brandenberg (509.3 m), north of the Meschede telecommunications tower
  • Heinberg (504.9 m), northwest of Bestwig
  • Neuer Berg (504.2 m), southwest of Hirschberg
  • Wennemer Höhe (503.3 m), north of Wennemen
  • Kopf (500.8 m), northeast of Eversberg
  • Blumenkopf (Südkopf, 500.7 m), southwest of Warstein, near the B 55
  • Blumenkopf (Nordkopf, 498.9 m), southwest of Warstein, near the B 55
  • Suhrenberg (498.2 m), northeast of Nuttlar
  • Kahlenbergsköpf (Südkopf, Hinterster Kahlenbergskopf ; 485.7 m), west of Warstein
  • Großer Berg (476.0 m), northeast of Freienohl
  • Kahlenbergsköpf (middle head; 466.9 m), west of Warstein
  • Meidenberg (466.7 m), southeast of Hirschberg
  • Kleiner Fahrenberg (463.7 m), north of Scharfenberg
  • Großer Fahrenberg (453.4 m), north-northwest of Scharfenberg
  • Kahlenbergsköpf (north head; 447.5 m), west of Warstein
  • Küppel (422.6 m), northeast of Freienohl ; with Küppelturm
  • Wolfskopf (398.7 m), east of Enste (Meschede)
  • Lemmberg (360.3 m), north of Arnsberg
  • Nameless summit (285.8 m), north of Delecke ; with Delecker Bismarck Tower

Localities

In or on the edge of the Arnsberg Forest nature park there are these communities and cities with their numerous districts :

Protected areas

Apart from settlement areas, the Arnsberg Forest was designated completely as a nature reserve (NSG) or at least as a landscape protection area. At the same time, the most valuable areas are designated as FFH areas . Parts of the protected areas are also outside the Arnsberg Forest.

The following nature reserves are located in the Arnsberg Forest:

In addition, as part of landscape planning , many near-natural stream valleys and their surroundings are to be defined as nature reserves. An accumulation of such stream valleys can be found in the forests near Warstein in the Möhne catchment area. This regional planning requirement from 2012 is intended to improve their function as a habitat for animals and plants.

The following landscape protection areas are located in the Arnsberg Forest:

The following FFH areas are located in the Arnsberg Forest:

  • FFH area Arnsberg Forest
  • FFH area Hamorsbruch and source brooks
  • FFH area Lörmecketal
  • FFH area Heveoberlauf
  • FFH area Kleine Schmalenau and Hevesee

history

Shortly before the end of the Second World War (1939–1945), the massacre in the Arnsberg Forest took place in March 1945 , in which over 200 innocent forced laborers were killed by a group made up of the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht . The person mainly responsible committed suicide in 1945. Only in 1955 - after an anonymous complaint - was a judicial investigation, in 1958 two mild judgments were made - a maximum of 5 years in prison. These penalties were later increased by revision.

tourism

Worth seeing

Loermcke tower

The Arnsberg Forest Nature Park southwest Warstein lying Bilsteinhöhle attracts many tourists. The Hohler Stein cave southwest of Rüthen-Kallenhardt is also worth seeing and visiting. This also applies to the Lörmecke tower (near the highest point in the Arnsberger Wald nature park between Warstein and Eversberg), Küppelturm (near Meschede-Freienohls) and the Delecker Bismarck tower (north of Möhnesee-Delecke).

hike

Many hiking trails open up the Arnsberg Forest nature park and its mountains and valleys. The most famous are the Uplandweg , which runs north-south from Soest via Körbecke to Neuhaus , Breitenbruch and Arnsberg , and the Rennweg , which was laid out in an east-west direction on the first hill south of the Möhnestausees and leads to Warstein . Other hiking trails are the Plackweg and the Sauerland Forest Route .

You can go on circular hikes from many of the car parks located on the south side of the Möhnestausees and in the Heve valley. A number of excursion restaurants, for example located on the southern edge of the reservoir and in the villages of Neuhaus and Breitenbruch in the Arnsberg Forest, are at the service of hikers.

Wind power

From 2018 there was a massive dispute over the planned construction of 15 wind turbines in the Arnsberger Wald nature park in the Warsteiner urban area. In October 2018 there was an appeal to the state government of a Warsteiner anti-wind power initiative. Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker , the former head of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Friedrich Merz , and the owner of the Warsteiner brewery , Catharina Cramer , also signed this appeal .

literature

  • Ralf Günther: The Arnsberg Forest in the Middle Ages. Forest history as constitutional history . Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia, No. 22 / Historical works on Westphalian regional research, Volume 20. Aschendorff, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-402-06782-X (345 (IX) pages).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  3. ↑ Press release District Soest February 5, 2020
  4. ↑ Textual definition of the regional plan for SO / HSK
  5. ↑ Explanatory card 12 on the regional plan for SO / HSK
  6. ↑ Procedure for wind farm starts
  7. ↑ Paderborn Archbishop fights against wind turbines

Web links

Commons : Arnsberg Forest Nature Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 46 ″  E