The nature park high Mark lies in the northern Ruhr district and southwest cathedral country in the Land of the Federal Republic North Rhine-Westphalia.

Geografie

Spatial situation

The nature park high Mark expands on a surface of 1.040 km and by the cities Bocholt, Rhede, barks, Coesfeld, Ldinghausen, Olfen, Datteln, Oer Erkenschwick, Marl, Dorsten, upper living and Wesel is limited.

Completely in the nature park the municipalities and/or cities holding are because of the lake, heaths, Raesfeld, Reken and Schermbeck.

Landscape

The nature park is characterised by surprising variety at landscape forms. While in the north the park landscape of the cathedral Muenster with its various mixture from meadows, pastures, fields, moorlands and isolated small forests dominates, a zerfurchter range is, to the Mark high of the forest mountains (that the core of the nature park forms), the Haard and the bark mountains is formed in the south. Between these forest mountains the completely even river landscapes of the lip and the Stever extend

The highest mountain of the three mountain courses the Haard, the high Mark and the bark mountains are with 156 m of the Stimberg in the Haard. Further high mountains in the nature park outside of these mountain courses are the Melchenberg with 133 m with Reken and that-black mountain with 103 m with heaths with the De in the Uhlen forests. At the Norgrenze nature park area a further mountain course is "the mountains "with that 100 m high with barks.

The largest forest areas outside of the mountain courses are dawn forest, the forest trade union August with the Mark, "the Diersfordter forest "- "Bislicher forest "and the forest area "Gartroper shrubs "- forest "- "Kirchheller heath "in the south of the nature park.

The rivers Bocholter Aa, Issel, lip and Stever flow through the nature park. Parallel to the lip the Wesel Datteln channel runs.

The largest seas in the nature park are the Bocholter Aasee, Halterner artificial lake, heath lake, Heidhofsee, Hullerner artificial lake, black water and the Torfvennteich. Here also the first Kormoran colony in the hay brook valley with and the grey heron colony lie on the Overrather island in the Halterner artificial lake also over 60 occupied refuges.

The partly abgetorften Hochmoore "white Venn "with holding and "black Venn "with heaths serve today partly than maneuver areas and protected areas.

In the Merfelder break, a damp forest and meadow area to the west of live the of wild horses, one of the last herds of wild horse of Central Europe.

The middle part of the nature park was heavily damaged unfortunately lately by new WindparksLandschaftlich. Particularly in the municipality heaths large wind parks established those that landscape in aggressive way technically if not even lastingly destroy.

Traffic

In the nature park are developed numerous wheel and bridle paths as well as about 1,900 km a long moving way net.

In east west direction runs B 58 of over holding at the lake after Wesel. In north south direction some railroad lines and the motorways A 3, A 31 and A 43 run.

Geology

Are formed the three forest mountains before mentioned made of sand, which settled there after the last ice age. At the Stimberg in the Haard and to Opferstein in the bark mountains from sandstone, which is proper cemented by a mixture of silicic acid and colored Eisenverbindungen, are. Thus develops the so-called Schwartensandstein, which can achieve a large hardness depending upon degrees of cementing. This sandstone is also as building material in the area (e.g. at the parish church of Recklinghausen).

In addition this material shows the phenomenon of the desert lacquer, which one finds actually only in the large deserts of the earth on to sun-turn the side. The of the Schwartensandsteines takes up rain water very easily. During sun exposure the water evaporates again and leaves the Eisenverbindungen on the surface of the Materiales, solved before, as black layer.

Related links

• http://www.naturpark-hohemark.de/

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