Volksdorf Forest

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Forest path in the Volksdorf forest
Mellenberg 1901
As here in 1907, the small train also drove through the Volksdorf forest
historical boundary stone Volksdorf / Meiendorf in the Volksdorfer Wald from probably before 1872

The Volksdorfer Wald is an urban recreational forest in the northeast of Hamburg , part of the Volksdorf district .

geography

The Volksdorfer Wald is around 92 hectares in size, it is located in the Volksdorf district and borders Meiendorf ( part of the Rahlstedt district ) in the south . It is almost completely surrounded by single houses. Its triangular shape is bounded in the west by underground line 1 with the Meiendorfer Weg underground station . The forest is criss-crossed by many paths. Its eastern part is called Schießbusch according to the topographic map . The creek-like Diekkampgraben begins in the south-western part and leaves the forest at the underground bridge on Meiendorfer Weg, while the rest of the larger part of the forest is crisscrossed by a few, usually dry, ditches. The highest point is the 63.3 meter high Mellenberg at the eastern end , the tip of a soft ice age terminal moraine. As a round hill, it towers over the surrounding area by twelve meters.

history

The Volksdorfer Wald is the remainder of a larger forest area that gave the Hamburg forest villages their name. It has belonged to Hamburg for several centuries and has been administered by the so-called Waldherren on behalf of the Hamburg Senate since the 16th century.

Flora and fauna

It is a mixed forest with predominant beeches. Since the 1990s, previous spruce monocultures have been largely replaced by deciduous forests after severe storm damage. The forest is the habitat of deer who have no natural enemies there.

Others

In the forest there is a playground in changing structural condition. In June 2009, a commercial high ropes course (“Kletterwald Hamburg”) was opened near the Meiendorfer Weg underground station . Remains of an earlier observation tower on the Mellenberg, as well as those of the Volksdorf war memorial, are no longer recognizable. The same applies to a shooting range that existed at the beginning of the 1940s in the western tip of the Volksdorf Forest. The course of a small electric train can be imagined , which from 1904 to 1923 crossed the forest parallel to Meiendorfer Weg and transported people between Rahlstedt and Volksdorf. In the forest there is a Hamburg boundary stone from 1838 and a boundary stone from probably before 1872.

Literature and web links

  • 700 years of Volksdorf; M + K Hansa Verlag, Hamburg 1996
  • Revierförsterei Volksdorf
  • City map of Hamburg / City map of Hamburg on DVD; State Office for Geoinformation and Surveying Hamburg
  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 (2326 Fuhlsbüttel / 2327 Ahrensburg); Land survey office Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] (PDF; 1.5 MB) List of recognized monuments according to § 7a Hamburg Monument Protection Act, p. 529 under "Ringstrasse 217" and p. 176 under "Meiendorfer Weg o. No. at the height of no. 70" (As of November 20, 2012)


Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 25 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 55 ″  E