Siebengebirge Nature Park

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The Siebengebirge Nature Park is a nature park in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia , in the right Rhenish part of the Rhein-Sieg district and in the south of the Beuel district on the right bank of the city ​​of Bonn . It was founded in 1958 as the first nature park in North Rhine-Westphalia and includes parts of the natural areas of Cologne Bay (only minimal parts in its southeast), Pleiser Hügelland (namely its west), Siebengebirge (complete), Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge (its north half located in NRW ) and Asbacher plateau (only in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia). The Pleiser Hügelland ("Pleiser Ländchen") and Siebengebirge belong to the Lower Middle Rhine region , while the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge and Asbacher plateau belong to the natural Westerwald (more precisely: the Niederwesterwald ).

The continuously wooded western part of the nature park forms the Siebengebirge nature reserve , which was designated as early as 1922 .

Sponsorship

From 1986 to 2018 the Beautification Association for the Siebengebirge (VVS) was responsible for the nature park on a voluntary basis. After its takeover by the Rhein-Sieg district on February 1, 2018, a full-time office was set up, which is initially located at the headquarters of the district administration in Siegburg . The nature park assembly as a board of directors consists of two representatives from the participating communities, the Rhein-Sieg district and the VVS.

Expansion and communities involved

The nature park initially had a size of 4,800, after a comprehensive expansion in 2007 of 11,200 hectares. As is usual with nature parks, the boundaries of the Siebengebirge nature park are mainly based on municipal boundaries. However, there are deviations, especially in this nature park, in that the participating communities are only partially located in the nature park.

Participating municipalities are:

  • Bad Honnef (without the densely populated far west in the Rhine Valley)
  • Bonn (only near-natural eastern part of the city area)
  • Königswinter (without the Oberpleis district )
  • Sankt Augustin (only near-natural extreme south of the urban area, west of the A3 ; added in 2007)

mountains

Petersberg - vertical view
Löwenburg in the Siebengebirge

The majority of the mountains worth mentioning in the Siebengebirge nature park run in a chain-like manner in the western part of the nature park - in the Siebengebirge nature reserve - from northwest to southeast.

The north of the nature reserve lies in the Ennert ridge (part of the Pleiser Hügelland ) and belongs to the sub- nature reserve of the same name . The central part is in the Siebengebirge and the southern part on the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge . A few elevations in the nature park are to the east of the nature reserve.

The following surveys are of importance (height and natural area in brackets, the "seven great mountains of the Siebengebirge" are each marked with a star):

  • Großer Ölberg * ( 460.7  m , eastern Siebengebirge) with summit restaurant
    • Little Mount of Olives ( 331.7  m ; northern sub-peak of the Great Mount of Olives, northeastern rim mountain)
  • Löwenburg * ( 455  m , eastern Siebengebirge) with castle ruins
  • Lohrberg * ( 432.8  m , eastern Siebengebirge)
  • Triple summit ( 378.4 m , Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge  ):
    • Broderkonsberg ( 378.4  m , east summit)
    • Himmerich ( 367.1 m , northwest summit  ); "Big shit"
    • Mittelberg ( 352.2  m , middle summit)
  • Dachsberg ( 362.2  m , north-western Asbach plateau )
  • Leyberg ( 359.2  m , Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge)
  • Nonnenstromberg * ( 335.9  m , western Siebengebirge)
  • Petersberg * ( 335.9  m , western Siebengebirge), name in the early Middle Ages Stromberg , with ring wall 3500 BC Chr., Peterskapelle, guest house of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Himberg ( 335.2  m , Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge)
  • Wolkenburg * ( 324  m , western Siebengebirge) with castle ruins
  • Drachenfels * ( 320.7  m , western Siebengebirge) with castle ruins and summit hotel
  • Rosenau , also Große Rosenau ( 322.1  m , eastern Siebengebirge); with castle ruins
  • Großer Breiberg ( 312.9  m , western Siebengebirge)
  • Stenzelberg ( 287  m , eastern edge of the Siebengebirge); former climbing mountain
  • Hirschberg ( 256.8  m , western edge of the Siebengebirge)
  • Dollendorfer Hardt ( 246.7  m , northernmost mountain of the (western) Siebengebirge)
  • Weilberg ( 242.1  m , eastern edge of the Siebengebirge); First award of the European Diploma for the Siebengebirge on October 15, 1971
  • Scharfenberg ( 233  m , inner Pleiser hill country)
  • Paffelsberg ( 195.3  m , Ennert)
  • Reichenberger Höhe ( 194  m , south (western) most elevation of the (western) Siebengebirge)
  • Juffernberg ( 190.9  m , Ennert)
  • Kuckstein ( 190.4  m , Ennert)
  • Zickelburg ( 188.2 m , western pre-hill of the Rheinwesterwald volcanic ridge  )
  • Rabenlay ( 180  m , Ennert)
  • Röckesberg ( 165  m , Ennert)
  • Ennert ( 152  m , Ennert)

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The nature park , Siebengebirge nature park
  2. ↑ a b Map services of the BfN ( Memento of the original from December 19, 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. ("Protected areas" map service makes nature parks and nature reserves fade in) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  3. ↑ History of the Siebengebirge Nature Park , Beautification Association for the Siebengebirge
  4. ↑ a b Location, size and limits - general map of the Siebengebirge nature park (rough map), beautification association for the Siebengebirge
  5. ↑ Augustin's beautiful spots now belong to the nature park , General-Anzeiger , November 14, 2007
  6. ↑ http://nsg.naturschutzinformationen.nrw.de/nsg/de/fachinfo/gebiete/haben/BN_001K1
  7. ↑ http://nsg.naturschutzinformationen.nrw.de/nsg/de/fachinfo/gebiet/angebote/SU_001K2

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 15 ′  E