Order forest
The Ordenswald , whose name is derived from a spiritual knightly order , is a forest area in the southeast of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the Upper Palatinate Rhine Plain, predominantly on the boundaries of the urban district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and the municipality of Haßloch .
geography
location
The 6 km² Ordenswald extends, gradually widening trapezoidally , east of the hill country on the German Wine Route from west to east about 5 km far into the Rhine plain. Its western beginning is at 128 m above sea level. NHN in the southeast of the district Mußbach , its southeastern end in the further Neustadt district of Speyerdorf , its northeast in Haßloch; there the altitude is about 117 m .
Geographically, the Ordenswald is considered to be part of the Speyer Forest . This begins in the west with the Ordenswald and stretches almost 18 km in an easterly direction to the Schifferstadter Wald, the Stadtwald Speyer and the Dudenhofen Forest.
Waters
The southern part of the Ordenswald is traversed by the Speyerbach and in its northern part by its left estuary, the Rehbach , which separates from the Speyerbach in Neustadt am Winzinger Wassergescheid .
On the north-western entrance to the Order of Forest is from the Rehbach right back goers digging derived. It then flows for a good 3 km at a distance of 200 to 400 m approximately parallel to the Rehbach and irrigates the northern edge of the Ordenswald. Its name indicates the type of locomotion of the crayfish found in the ditch . The Rückgängergraben flows back west of Haßloch from the right into the Rehbach.
biology
vegetation
Pine trees
Spruce trees
Book
Rushes
reed
On the predominantly sandy existing alluvial fans of Speyerbach and Rehbach thrive mainly undemanding conifers such as pines and spruces . Deciduous trees like beeches are much less common. Especially the edges of the water are often covered with rushes and reeds .
fauna
wild boar
deer
Fox
Badger
Pine marten
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The largest mammals in the Order Forest are wild boar and roe deer ; There are no more red deer . As a predator is fox widespread; badger and pine marten are less common .
history
As early as the early Middle Ages , the forest area belonged to the Mußbacher Herrenhof of the Order of St. John, and later the Order of Malta, and that's how it got its name. The founding documents of the manor house go back to the 7th century.
On the night of August 13, 1933, two men were killed in a shootout between two poachers and four law enforcement officers in the hunting district of Kommerzienrat Eugen Abresch on what is now the Neustadt district of Speyerdorf , one of the poachers and a police officer. A year later, a memorial stone with inscriptions was erected at the location of the event for the shot police officer Arthur Löffler (1898–1933) , which is popularly known as Wildererstein . Two information boards were added later.
traffic
Since the 1970s, the western part of the forest area has been crossed in a north-south direction by the Autobahn 65 , which connects Ludwigshafen am Rhein with Karlsruhe . The Ordenswald is only accessible through forest , riding and hiking trails .
Web links
- Location of the Ordenswald on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
References and comments
- ↑ Note: The marked "Klingelbach" is actually called Klingbach .
- ↑ a b c d Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Geoportal Wasser Rheinland-Pfalz. Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture, Food, Viticulture and Forestry, 2001, accessed September 14, 2014 .
- ^ Otto Sartorius : Mussbach . The story of a wine village. Historical Association of the Palatinate, Speyer 1959.
- ↑ Wolfgang Kauer: Shots in the lungs . In: The Rheinpfalz , Mittelhaardter Rundschau . Ludwigshafen January 21, 2014, p. 24 .