Spörkelbruch

Spörkelbruch City of Haan Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 33 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 20"  E
Height :	101 m above sea level NN
Location of Spörkelbruch in Haan

The location Spörkelbruch is on the outskirts of Haan on the city limits of Hilden on the edge of a nature reserve of the same name in North Rhine-Westphalia . The place borders on the Hildener Heide and is surrounded by remnants of moorland , swamp forests and swampy meadows.

Because of its importance for nature conservation, the area around Spörkelbruch was designated as part of the Natura 2000 area Hilden-Spörkelbruch .

History and etymology

Spörkelbruch (also Spörklenbruch ) was part of the Lower Honschaft Haan in the Bergisch Amt Solingen in the early modern times .

Probably the namesake is the buckthorn ( Frangula alnus ), an inconspicuous shrub with egg-shaped leaves and blue-black berries. The Low German word sprock or spork means sticks and is closely related to the Old High German word Spurcha , with which the vernacular referred to the buckthorn (Spörkel, Spörker) or the juniper . Bruch is an old name for a bog or wetland. Peat extraction has been documented in the area around Spörkelbruch since the Middle Ages .

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