Hardt nature reserve (Bergisch Gladbach)

Hardt nature reserve IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
The Erdenburg in Moitzfeld
location	Bergisch Gladbach , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	163.85 ha
Identifier	GL-066
WDPA ID	555514038
Geographical location	50 ° 58 '  N , 7 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '27 "  N , 7 ° 10' 31"  E
Setup date	2008
Framework plan	Landscape plan south district (Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Rösrath)
administration	Lower landscape authority Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

The Hardt nature reserve is located in the middle of Bergisch Gladbach . It includes the state forest between the districts (clockwise) Heidkamp , Sand , Herkenrath , Moitzfeld , Bensberg and Lückerath . Already in the time 310 ± 80 BC BC Sugambrer , a West Germanic tribe, settled here on the Erdenburg . In the Milchborntal there is the Kadettenweiher , a former swimming lake for the cadets of the cadet institute of Schloss Bensberg . A few hundred meters to the west is the Grube Cox nature reserve .

vegetation

The vegetation of the nature reserve consists mainly of extensive pine and deciduous mixed forests as well as spruce forests on soils with different nutrient situations. The Lerbach and Milchbornbach streams run through the nature reserve , and there are numerous spring areas. Due to the diverse site characteristics, reed beds , wet and humid forests, as well as pioneer forest and gravel fields could develop.

The area was placed under protection in order to preserve the existing, large forest area with its old beech stands, oak-hornbeam forests and the stream valleys with their reeds and alder forests and to optimize the extensive coniferous forests.

Mining remains and other cultural monuments

Until the end of the 19th century, mining was carried out in Hardt. The relics of the former non-ferrous metal ore mines Blücher and Jungfrau , in particular their heaps , pings and the tunnel mouth holes , for example on the edge of the Hardtknippen, as well as the geological explorations, are geoscientific, regional and mining archaeological valuable and equally protected. Bats find shelter in the tunnels. Furthermore, the reeds in the silted up sedimentation ponds of the Blücher pit are protected and need to be further developed.

The Erdenburg ring wall and the enclosed karst spring in Kaltenbroich , which provided the hamlet with drinking water until 1955 and served as a washing area, are also protected .

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erdenburg - examined in the laboratory, scientists discovered: Older than 2000 years , in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar , 1970, p. 170
2. ↑ Godehard Hoffmann; The new castle in Bensberg as a Prussian cadet house , in: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 97, year 1995/96, Neustadt an der Aisch 1997, p. 149 ff.
3. ↑ The Grube Cox nature reserve accessed on February 20, 2017
4. ↑ The District Administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis, Planning and Landscape Protection Department (ed.): Landscape plan "Südkreis" Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Rösrath. Text part. Bergisch Gladbach, 2008, p. 76f. on-line
5. ^ Herbert Stahl (editors), Gerhard Geurts and Herbert Ommer : Das Erbe des Erzes , Volume 2, The pits on the Gangerz deposits in the ore district of Bensberg , Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-00-014668-7
6. ↑ Hidden History: Ground Monuments in Bergisch Gladbach (T. 3)
7. ↑ Source of Kaltenbroich (source atlas)

Web links

• "Hardt (GL-066)" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia