Westensee Nature Park

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Location of the Westensee Nature Park

The Westensee Nature Park is located in the city triangle Kiel - Neumünster - Rendsburg in the moraine landscape of the East Holstein hill country. It is an institution according to Section 29a of the State Nature Conservation Act (LNatSchG) for Schleswig-Holstein from 2010. On December 19, 2016, the association “Naturpark Westensee Obere Eider eV” based in Bordesholm took over the sponsorship . Originally, the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde was responsible for this nature park.

location

The eponymous Westensee , 692 hectares in size, is located in the northern third of the approximately 25,000 hectare nature park. Within its area, the A 7 , A 210 and A 215 motorways form a triangle, the southern tip of which is reached by the Bordesholm - Nortorf line . The northern border forms an arch of the Kiel Canal between Sehestedt and the Kiel district of Suchsdorf. In the northeast the nature park ends before Kronshagen and Kiel. In the south, Neumünster and Aukrug are outside. The small community of Oldenhütten forms a border point in the west.

Landscape image

The landscape was created during the last Ice Age and is characterized by hills, valleys, forests, fields, moors, lakes, swamps, small rivers, cliffs, gravel ridges and sandbanks. At the beginning of the 19th century for came Ostholstein typical Knicks (hedgerows) to do so.

Surveys

  • Blotenberg 69 m, on Westensee, south bank.
  • Borkenberg 52 m, sand field (district of Langwedel ).
  • Charlottenhöhe 56 m, north of Emkendorf .
  • Hanradesberg 65 m, north of Oldenhütten .
  • Holy Mountain 78 m, north of Blumenthal .
  • Kummersberg 39 m, north of Schönbek .
  • Lietberg 74 m, between Emkendorf and Deutsch-Nienhof .
  • Sohrenberg ?? m,
  • Spinning Mountains 18 m, on the Kiel Canal .
  • Tüteberg 88 m, south of the town Westensee .
  • Wartenberg 67 m, Blocksdorf (district of Langwedel).

Flowing waters

  • Aalbek.
  • Bokeler Au .
  • Brammer Au .
  • Eider .
  • Melsdorf Au.
  • Olendieksau becomes Mühlenau in Langwedel in front of the Brahmsee.

Inland lakes

View from the east bank of the Brahmsee

Moors

tourism

During the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival there are regular events at Gut Emkendorf . For hikers, the nature park path connects the five nature parks in Schleswig-Holstein .

Estates, mansions

Archeological

Only a remnant is visible of the burial mounds of the Bronze Age . Most of them have been leveled by intensive plowing. Some have carried away grave robbers. Preserved examples can be found southeast of Eisendorf , northeast of Groß Vollstedt , on the Sandberg in Langwedel .

society

Since 2019 Anne Katrin Kittmann, Mayor of Achterwehr , has been the managing director of the registered association "Westensee Nature Park - Obere Eider". Eike Fandrey is chairman; his deputies are Klaus Langer and Heinz Dieter Gröning.

Administrative centers

literature

  • Klaus Hand, Deike Timmermann, Bernd W. Hawel, Olaf Peters, Carolin Barz, Sven Behrens: Nature park plan for the Westensee nature park: On behalf of the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district. Office for Landscape Development GmbH, 2010. PDF.
  • Frank Trende: Manor house stories in the heart of Schleswig-Holstein: Bossee, Deutsch-Nienhof, Emkendorf, Schierensee, Westensee. Boyens, Heide 2015. ISBN 978-3-8042-1423-1 .
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein: Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 5.1982. ISBN 3 529 02627 1 . <Abbreviation in individual records: Kunst-Topographie SH 1982.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naturpark Westensee Obere Eider eV: sponsorship of the nature park handed over to the association ; accessed on February 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ Description follows the CN graphic in the article by Florian Sötje: More money and public needs. In: Kieler Nachrichten - Holsteiner Zeitung January 5, 2019, p. 33.
  3. ↑ Kunst-Topographie SH 1982, page 617.
  4. ^ The owner was Aimé von Mesmer-Saldern .
  5. ↑ Cornelia Müller: This wallpaper is a work of art. In: Kieler Nachrichten January 11, 2019, p 28. Historical wall panorama from 1823 is being restored.
  6. ↑ Kunst-Topographie SH 1982, pages 623–626.
  7. ↑ Kunst-Topographie SH 1982, page 617.
  8. ↑ Art Topography SH 1982, page 654.
  9. ↑ Karl-Heinz Willroth (Ed.): The finds from the older Bronze Age in the Nordic region of Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. Volume 19: Karl Kersten, Karl-Heinz Willroth: Rendsburg-Eckernförde district (south of the Kiel Canal) and the independent cities of Kiel and Neumünster. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005. ISBN 3-529-01963-1 .
  10. ↑ Florian Sötje: More money and public needs. In: Kieler Nachrichten - Holsteiner Zeitung January 5, 2019, p. 33.

Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 55'  E