Our Natural Park
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| Location: | Luxembourg | ||
| Next city: | Hosingen | ||
| Surface: | 306 km² | ||
| Founding: | 2005 | ||
| Address: | Nature Park Our 12, Parc L-9836 Hosingen, website of the park |
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The Our Nature Park is a nature park in the northeast of Luxembourg .
location
The park is located in the Ardennes on the Luxembourg side of the River Our , on the northeastern edge of Luxembourg in the border triangle with Belgium and Germany . It covers an area of 306 km² and with around 16,000 inhabitants the area of the 7 communities Clervaux , Kiischpelt , Parc Hosingen , Putscheid , Tandel , Ulflingen and Vianden . It is part of the binational German-Luxembourg nature park and borders on the German-Belgian nature park Hohes Venn-Eifel .
Landscape and ecology
The area consists largely of a plateau formed from shale rock, which is at an altitude of about 500 m . It is broken by numerous valleys such as those of the Our and Klerf . While the steep slopes of these valleys are mostly forested, the plateaus are more densely populated and are also used more for agriculture. Both in the river valleys and on the plateaus there are many humid biotopes , which are important habitats for endangered animal and plant species. The endangered black stork nests here , as well as the freshwater pearl mussel , wildcat and hazel grouse . A major ecological problem of the park is the conversion of the original deciduous and mixed forest or the landscape- defining tilled hedges into spruce monocultures due to intensive forest use in recent decades. Nevertheless, several thousand hectares of tanned hedges have been preserved, which still characterize the landscape over long stretches.
tourism
The park is a popular hiking area , there are numerous long-distance and themed hiking trails as well as nature trails . There are also many cycle paths and mountain bike routes, as well as Nordic walking routes and high ropes courses . Furthermore, the numerous castles, especially Vianden Castle , are of great importance for tourism. Other sights include the Vianden pumped storage plant , the world-famous photo exhibition The Family of Man and the Benedictine Abbey in Clervaux , the triangle near Ouren , the tunnels of the copper mine in Stolzemburg and the escape route around Ulflingen . The visitor center of the nature park is located in Hosingen.
history
The forerunner of the nature park was the community association SIVOUR (Syndicat Intercommunal de la Vallée de l'Our) , which was formed in 1992 by the communities Heinerscheid, Hosingen, Putscheid, Vianden and Weiswampach . Bastendorf , Consthum, Fuhren , Hoscheid and Munshausen joined in 1995, and by 1998 SIVOUR was expanded to include the municipalities of Clervaux , Ulflingen and Wilwerwiltz to 13 municipalities. In 1994, the establishment of the nature park on the basis of the Nature Park Act of 1993 ( loi du 10 août 1993 relative aux parcs naturels ) began. The concept was drawn up by 2003, and the ordinance of the nature park came into force on June 9, 2005. The lower number of participating communities today is based on the one hand on community mergers in 2006, when Bastendorf and Fuhren merged to form the new community of Tandel , while Wilwerwiltz and Kautenbach merged to form the community of Kiischpelt . In contrast, the community of Weiswampach did not join the nature park. Further parish mergers in 2011 led to a further reduction in the number of member parishes to currently 7.
Web links
- Our explorer
- WebGIS, interactive recreational maps of the Our Natural Park
- The Our Nature Park on the pages of the German-Luxembourg Nature Park
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Our Nature Park: Introduction , accessed on January 3, 2012
- ↑ Our Nature Park: Member communities , accessed on January 3, 2012
- ↑ a b mergelwind, Our Nature Park ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2014 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. , accessed March 23, 2014
- ^ Water snake , accessed March 23, 2014
- ^ A Foreign King , accessed March 23, 2014
- ↑ Our Nature Park: History and tasks , accessed on November 14, 2009
