The nature park Homert is about 550 km a large area, which was proven 1965 as nature park and in the sour country, between which Lennetal lies in the southwest and Ruhr-tallow-offered in the northeast. The park has the name Homert after a collection high running in the south up to 656 meters.

In the northeast the nature park follows Arnsberger forest, in the southeast the nature park red hair mountains and in the southwest the nature park ebb-tide mountains.

The varied landscape is coined/shaped from forest, field and grassland, river valleys, bizarren cliffs and rock formations, particularly in the along the Boundary regions of the have a particularly species-rich animal and plant world. Thus there are occurrences of different awake old hereditary suppl. heaths. Some parts of the nature park are protected - going beyond the nature park status - as nature or landscape protection areas.

By Rodungen in past decades only somewhat more than half of the nature park is wooded. In the park the Sorpesee and the hen dam lie. The bank ranges of the dams are in many places for grey herons, hood divers and numerous other kinds of bird breeding areas.

To the nature marriage worthynesses of the park among other things the rock sea Hemer, the Balver cave, which is the largest culture cave of Germany, belong the straining cave with Balve and the in Hemer with a completely received, about 150,000 years old skeleton of a cave bear.

The entire area is pulled through from marked moving and cycle tracks.

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