Urdenbacher Kämpe

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Bach in the Urdenbacher Kämpe

The Urdenbacher Kämpe is a landscape area that lies south and west of the built-up areas of the Düsseldorf districts of Urdenbach and Hellerhof and north of the Baumberg district of Monheim .

Location, name and corridor areas

The Urdenbacher Kämpe are bounded in the west by the Rhine and in the east by the Urdenbacher Altrhein with the Garather Mühlenbach and the Baumberger Graben. They were created in 1374, when the Rhine changed its course during a breakthrough during a flood and took its current river bed. Since then, the Urdenbacher Kämpe has no longer flowed around it to the east, but to the west of the Rhine. The Old Rhine is the remainder of the old river bed of the Rhine before it was moved to the west.

The name Kamp (plural: Kämpe) is the Germanization of the Latin word campus for field, corridor. The historical name Urdenbacher Kämpe is used for this entire area as Urdenbacher Kämpe. The actual namesake of the Urdenbacher Kämpe is the north-western part. The northeastern area is the "Alter Rhein forest area", the southwestern part is the "Urdenbacher Rheinufer" and the southeastern area is the "Baumberger Aue".

Communal affiliation

The northern part of the area from about the height of Ausleger belongs to Düsseldorf and the southern part to Monheim .

Landscape types

Urdenbacher Kämpe

The area is covered by riparian forests in the northeast and southwest. The "Forest area Alter Rhein" area is one of the last riparian hardwood - wood of the Lower Rhine . The hardwood floodplain is home to kingfisher , oriole , black kite and corncrake . Parts of the north-west are orchards and, like the north-east, pasture and grassland. Poplars , ash trees and willows grow on the pastureland . In the central and southern areas there are predominantly agricultural arable land.

Use and scope of the protected areas

The center of the Düsseldorf area with the bulge towards the boom / Rhine ferry and the Baumberger area without its wooded western part are arable land. Almost the entire area of ​​the Kämpen is subject to the European Flora-Fauna-Habitat Directive (FFH area). Large parts of the area including the agriculturally used "Feuchtgrün Landes" in the area of ​​the Old Rhine are nature reserves (NSG), while the arable areas used by farmers are landscape protection areas (LSG). With the exception of the central arable area, including the bulge up to the banks of the Rhine, used as arable land, the nature reserve in the Düsseldorf area is 324.5 hectares in size. Of the area belonging to Monheim, only the edge areas without the central part of the terrain are nature reserves. The latter are the "Baumberger Aue" with 30.99 hectares and the "Urdenbacher Rheinufer" with 77.2 hectares without the camping site in this area. In the northern part of the Urdenbacher Rheinufer NSG is "Am Kirberger-Loch" with 5.71 hectares, which is still shown separately as a NSG. A detailed official map of the entire area of ​​Unterbacher Kämpen is available in the specialist information system of the LANUV .

Urdenbacher Kämpe in winter

Since the entire area is only slightly higher than the bank of the Rhine, it is flooded by the Rhine during high water and is an official flood area for "flood relief". In the 1950s, the construction of summer dykes and drainage canals improved the agricultural management of the meadows and the production of hay, since after that the Kämpen were only flooded when the Rhine flooded. From autumn 2013 to March 2014, the south-western bank of the Garather Mühlenbach was opened in two places, so that now even with normal Rhine water levels, deeper areas in the area of ​​the Alter Rhein forest area are under water all year round.

The so-called boom is located in the Kämpe near the banks of the Rhine at the level of the northern local area of ​​Zons . This was originally a rural courtyard, which is documented in 1832. Currently there are two restaurants and an old year-round ferry service for cars, cyclists and hikers across the Rhine to Zons in the area of ​​the former courtyard . The ferry connection can be traced back to 1865, but like the farm, it is likely to be much older.

Haus Bürgel is located in the middle of the Kämpen in the Monheim area . It was originally built in the 4th century AD as a late Roman fort 64 × 64 m in size with 12 watchtowers. After the Rhine breakthrough in 1374, Haus Bürgel was no longer on the left, but on the right. Since the early Middle Ages , the successor buildings to the fort were the seat of a large estate for the agricultural use of large parts of the Kämpen and later a manor . It currently houses a Roman Museum, a biological station and a breeding facility for draft horses . In 1864 , the pomologist Carl Hesselmann found the Kaiser Wilhelm apple variety as a chance seedling in the garden of Haus Bürgel .

traffic

The L 293 runs through the Kämpe with the bus line 788 of the Rheinbahn or trains of the city of Monheim between Benrath and Monheim. In the event of flooding, it must be diverted via Garath and Hellerhof.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Zons: History in Numbers. Local and Tourist Association of the City of Zons e. V., accessed July 7, 2013 .
  2. ↑ In: The landscape plan. Mettmann district . 2012. Retrieved on October 20, 2016, pp. 287 + 288.
  3. ↑ Barn owls in the Urdenbacher Kämpe - detective work with magnifying glass and tweezers. NRW Foundation, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ In: The landscape plan. Mettmann district. Point D 2.2.-8 . 2012. p. 287. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Urdenbacher Kämpen" nature reserve (map) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ RP Online, in article: The old Rhine gets a new bed , from April 2, 2014.
  7. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn (ed.): Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. Second part, section Düsseldorf, p. 69
  8. ^ In: Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region. 1850, p. LXXII.
  9. ↑ The Urdenbacher Kämpe near Düsseldorf - Back in the old bed. NRW Foundation, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Bahnen Monheim: flood diversion of line 788. Accessed on February 6, 2020 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ When Baumberg and Monheim were spun off on June 1, 1976, based on the incorporation of 1975 to Düsseldorf, the former Baumberg areas remained in the Kämpen near Düsseldorf. Evidence: In: Administrative report of the state capital Düsseldorf . Section: The City Council . Jan. 1, 1974 to Dec. 31, 1976, p. [12] 8. Online version
  2. ↑ The areas on the banks of the Rhine to the north of the confluence of the Old Rhine into the Rhine up to the level of the Benrath Castle Park and the bank area of ​​the Garath Mühlenbach up to the embankment of the Düsseldorf-Cologne railway line are also under nature protection .

Web links

Commons : Urdenbacher Kämpe  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 59 ″  E