Rureifel

Map of the Eifel

The Rureifel is located in the northern part of the West Eifel in the district of Düren , district of Euskirchen and the city ​​region of Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia , and is u. a. a local recreation area for the Cologne , Aachen , Düsseldorf , Krefeld , Mönchengladbach and Bonn area . The area takes its name from the Rur .

The Rureifel geographically includes the cities of Nideggen , Heimbach , Schleiden and Monschau as well as the communities Simmerath , Hürtgenwald , Kreuzau and Hellenthal and is therefore a sub-area of ​​the West Eifel . As a holiday region and day trip destination, it is well known with the second largest dam in Germany, the Rurtalsperre Schwammenauel and the Eifel National Park and the North Eifel Nature Park .

Natural structure

In the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany , the Rureifel forms the main unit 282 and belongs to the main unit group 28 , West Eifel . It is further subdivided as follows:

• 282 Rureifel
  • 282.0 Düren Eifel foot
  • 282.1 Hürtgen plateau
  • 282.2 Monschau Heckenland
  • 282.3 Rur-Urft-Olef valleys
    • 282.30 Monschau-Rurberger Rurtal
    • 282.31 Gemünder Urft and Olef valleys
    • 282.32 Urftsee area
    • 282.33 Rursee area
    • 282.34 Heimbach-Maubacher Rurtal
  • 282.4 Monschau-Hellenthaler forest plateau
  • 282.5 Dreiborn plateau
  • 282.6 Hollerath-Broicher plateau
    • 282.60 Hollerather plateau
    • 282.61 Broich plateau
  • 282.7 Wildenburg plateau
  • 282.8 Kermeter forest

economy

The sheep was an important farm animal . Eifel farmers were poor farmers . The soil was too meager for grain and cattle , and artificial fertilizers had not yet been invented. Wherever the dairy cow looked after, the Eifel sheep yielded. Sheep were once an important economic factor in the Eifel. The magnificent houses in Monschau still bear witness to the former prosperity of the woolen weavers and cloth merchants . In the 18th century, flocks of sheep from the Eifel were even driven to the markets of Paris . Large flocks of sheep meant wool , cloth and felt . There were four sheep farms in Heimbach alone . A wool spinning mill and a fulling mill worked here, and dyers and weavers lived here . Today the sheep get the traditional cultural landscape , the green valleys of the Eifel with orchids , bumblebees and colorful butterflies .

Web links

Wiktionary: Rureifel  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Rureifel tourism

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ewald Glässer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 122/123 Cologne / Aachen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1978. →  Online map (PDF; 8.7 MB)
2. ↑ Heinz Fischer, Richard Graafen: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 136/137 Cochem. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1974. →  Online map (PDF; 5.6 MB)
3. ↑ A boundary line between the two plateaus is not drawn on either map, but the Hollerather plateau is largely on the Cochem sheet and the Broicher on the Cologne sheet.