Niendorf enclosure

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Aerial view of the Eidelstedter Feldmark. The forest in the back left is the Niendorfer Gehege, the triangular forest in the front right is called Sellhoop and is an exclave of the enclosure
Forest in the Niendorf enclosure
Church on the market at the Niendorfer Gehege
Villa Mutzenbecher in the Niendorfer Gehege, Bondenwald 110a

The Niendorfer Gehege , located in the Hamburg district of Niendorf , is a leisure and recreation area with old, partly foreign trees. With around 142 hectares, it is the largest forest area in the Eimsbüttel district . The Kollau flows around the Niendorf enclosure .

Emergence

The southern part of the Niendorfer Gehege, also known as the Count or King's enclosure, was a forest area owned by the Pinneberg lordship . Official accounts and earth registers from 1590, 1666 and 1789 mention that timber was felled and pigs were fattened in the oak forest. In 1789 the king's enclosure covered around 35 hectares in the communities of Niendorf, Eidelstedt, Lokstedt and Stellingen. In 1912 the rest of the manorial forest came into the private property of the insurance director Hermann F. M. Mutzenbecher and was converted into a park . 1908-10 he had Erich Elingius rebuild a brick building from 1910 in the Wilhelminian style country house style based on the English model - today's Villa Mutzenbecher - built as a private retreat. The renovation of the villa should be completed by the end of 2020. From January 2021, the Forum Kollau with the district archive and the Waldforscher day care center with its preschool will move into the completed villa. Other former "forest residents" were the Gossler family of bankers , the director of the Hamburg-America Line , Johann Theodor Merck and the cattle commissioner Claus Bolten.

The Niendorfer Bauernwald followed in the northeast. Originally used as a common land, it was divided up when the land was linked at the end of the 18th century. The so-called “Bondenholz-Clause” can be found in the earth book of 1789: The new owners had to undertake not to put down the forest or create newly afforested compensation areas. The ban was extended several times and applied to private owners in the area of ​​the Niendorfer Gehege until the 20th century. The areas of the farmer's forest also came into the possession of wealthy Hamburgers in the course of the 19th century. Parks and representative summer villas were built on the site. Some of the private parks were open to the public even before the Second World War. In the post-war winters, the forest was decimated because the trees were used as firewood. From 1952 the city of Hamburg began to buy up and reforest the land. The Niendorfer Gehege has been part of the Klövensteen district since 1955 and is maintained as a municipal forest .

Infrastructure

Visitors have the opportunity to hike on around 15 kilometers of hiking trails . There is also a dog free run area , a forest café, a pony farm, around four kilometers of bridle paths and a fallow deer enclosure inside the enclosure.

In the middle of the enclosure there is also a large playground that is used by younger children during the day and by young people at night, especially in summer, for socializing. A small wooden hut helps to sit out any rain. The barbecue area, which is almost directly next to it, is also a popular place in summer.

The Niendorfer Gehege can be reached by underground line 2 , Niendorf Markt stop, or by bus.

Events

In the Niendorfer Gehege there is a regular "forest run" event, an event organized by the surrounding elementary and secondary schools in which the participants compete against each other over a wide range of distances according to age groups.

The Protection Association of German Forests , Landesverband Hamburg e. V. (SDW) has a forest school in the Niendorfer enclosure. From there, the environmental educational activities with children, schoolchildren and adults in the enclosure start at any time of the year. On the tours, the participants should get to know the fauna and flora of the enclosure.

In the middle of the Niendorfer Gehege there is also the forestry department, which maintains a small depot here. The German Forest Youth Association Hamburg e. V. maintains a group room here and organizes group lessons and seminars; she also works regularly with the forest ranger in the enclosure.

Flora and fauna

In terms of flora and fauna, the enclosure offers the usual for mixed beech forests . Spring flowering are Mercurialis perennis , wood anemone , musk , wood sorrel and from Gardens of wild Fingered Corydalis . In May, golden nettle , lily of the valley , shadow flowers and the many-flowered white root bloom . The following mammals are native here: hare , deer , fox and weasel . Chaffinches , hawfinches and song thrushes are more common among the birds than in the surrounding urban area; are even more focused on the forest Nuthatch , Treecreeper , non-ferrous and green woodpecker , tawny owl and hawk , and live only in the forest of the wood warbler and the rarity of the middle spotted woodpecker . The following amphibians have been observed here: common frog , mountain newt , pond newt and northern crested newt .

The NABU district group in Eimsbüttel offers ornithological tours every spring as part of the “What sings there?” Program. In 2011 the association "PRO Niendorfer Gehege" was founded, which currently has around 200 members and is concerned with the existence and development of the enclosure, e.g. B. takes care of the installation of benches.

Web links

Commons : Niendorfer Gehege  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upheavals in art and architecture, Stiftung Denkmalpflege, Hamburg 2019, p, 62
  2. ↑ Niendorfer Wochenblatt of January 29, 2020, No. 5, p. 11
  3. ↑ Das Niendorfer Gehege, leaflet, publisher: District Office Eimsbüttel, March 2017
  4. ↑ Horst Grigat (ed.): Hamburg-Niendorf from the Stone Age to the present . Self-published, Hamburg 1972
  5. ^ Waldjugend Niendorf (DWJ Niendorf) - German Forest Youth Regional Association Hamburg eV In: www.waldjugend-niendorf.de. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ The editor's own observations ( Olaf Studt ). In: Alexander Mitschke, Sven Baumung: Breeding Birds Atlas Hamburg. Hamburg avifaunistic contributions ('hab'), Volume 31, 2001, ISBN 3-00-008070-8 . ISSN  0340-5168
  7. ↑ Jens Hartmann et al .: Ornithological Annual Report 2001 to 2005. Hamburg Avifaunistische Contributions ('hab'), Volume 34, 2007, p. 134. ISSN  0340-5168
  8. ↑ Flyer from PRO Niendorfer Gehege

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '36 "  N , 9 ° 55' 58"  E