Remsteck
The Remsteck (320 m above sea level) is a local recreation area with a wildlife park and forest ecostation about 5 km south of Koblenz on the edge of the Hunsrück . The area, which until 1992 belonged to a forest depot, is located halfway on the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse (B 327) between Koblenz-Karthause and Waldesch . The approximately 20 hectare game reserve is part of the Koblenz city forest in the immediate vicinity of the archaeological site of a Roman Villa Rustica .
Wildlife enclosure Remsteck
The Remsteck wildlife park with around 250 animals (20 species) was opened in 1966 by the city of Koblenz; The forerunner was a private fallow deer fence from the 1950s.
Red deer , fallow deer , roe deer , wild boar and, since 1997, East Asian sika deer live in the large outdoor enclosures . There is also a mini zoo with goats and rabbits. The leisure activities for families with children include game feeding, pony rides and two playgrounds.
Short walks surround a pond with various types of ducks (including shelduck , teal , tufted duck , mandarin duck ) and a bird park with aviaries for songbirds. More extensive paths lead through the forest to orchards on the heights before Waldesch and along streams down to the Moselle at Koblenz-Lay and Koblenz-Moselweiß . Trail riding is also available for some routes. For the 2000th anniversary of Koblenz in 1992, three educational trails (one natural, one geological and one archaeological) were set up within the existing network of hiking trails.
Today's hotel restaurant originally goes back to the Remsteckhof and is an extension of the forest depot, which was closed in 1992 and which also had a restaurant. The original half-timbered building from 1906 was also fundamentally renovated and today houses the "Forest Ecostation Remsteck". In 2004, part of the former stables was converted into a farm shop with traditional, sometimes regional, agricultural products.
Forest ecostation
The "Waldökostation Remsteck" is a nature center set up in 1992 by the Koblenz City Environment Agency. Forerunner was a climate station that had existed since 1983 in cooperation with the forest depot.
The eco station has a farm garden that is stocked with fruit and vegetables, useful and medicinal plants.
The aim of the communal forest ecostation is to impart knowledge of regional nature, flora and fauna and to educate children and adults about environmentally friendly behavior. Activities include specialist lectures and natural history hikes, action days and exhibitions, learning programs for schoolchildren and advanced training events for teachers. In summer, a so-called classroom outdoors (wooden benches set up in a semicircle on the lawn in front of the building) is used for this purpose.
Since the renovation of the forest ecostation between 2006 and 2008, the ecostation can also be used all year round for training courses and seminars.
Villa Rustica
In 1989, the systematic excavations began a Roman estate in the forest between Remstecken and wood ash, which the in Lahnstein local historian active and teacher Professor Dr. Robert Bodewig (1857–1923) had already located here at the turn of the century. In addition to the remains of the courtyard wall, the foundation walls of an outbuilding were first excavated (15.3 × 12.2 m) in which an oven (presumably for drying fruit) was found. Only then was the main house - presumably a risalit villa with inner courtyard and portico , 146 × 73 m in size - identified, for which a cellar was discovered in addition to the foundation walls.
The archaeologists date the villa in its core to the 1st century AD, later additions to the 3rd century.
The site can be reached on a short walk from the wildlife park. The excavated walls were supplemented by reconstruction work.
Access / infrastructure
The first hiking car park in Remocket is located directly on the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse; it is also approached by a bus from Koblenz.
A cul-de-sac (approx. 1 km) leads from there into the forest to the hotel restaurant with a second, smaller car park.
literature
- B. Kuczynski: The Remsteck Wildlife Park . In: City of Koblenz (ed.): Our city forest, the green lung of Koblenz . Pp. 133-143. Publications of the city of Koblenz, 1993.
Web links
- History of the Wildpark Remasten ( Memento from January 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Forest ecostation
- Villa Rustica
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 30 ″ N , 7 ° 32 ′ 54 ″ E