Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park

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Location of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park
The Idarkopf in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park
View from the over the bend in the River Saar
The circular rampart of Otzenhausen
Rösterkopf near Reinsfeld
View from the Erbeskopf

The Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park (German: Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück) was established in 1980 and covers an area of just under 2,000 km² in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland.

The authority responsible for the nature park is the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park Society (Verein Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück) with its headquarters in Hermeskeil.[1] In Hermeskeil the society runs an "experience museum" and one of six information centres.

Towns and villages[]

In the Saarland, the nature park lies wholly within the town boroughs and local municipalities of Perl, Mettlach, Losheim am See, Merzig, Weiskirchen, Wadern, Beckingen, Rehlingen-Siersburg, Wallerfangen, Nonnweiler, Tholey, Nohfelden, Oberthal, Namborn, St. Wendel and Freisen. It also lies partly on the territories of Lebach, in its municipalities of Dörsdorf and , the municipality of Schmelz, in its parishes of , and Michelbach and within the municipality of Eppelborn, in the parish of .[2]

In Rhineland-Palatinate the nature park lies on parts of the territories of the following boroughs and collective municipalities: Saarburg, Konz, Ruwer, Kell am See, Hermeskeil (Trier-Saarburg), Thalfang, Bernkastel-Kues (Bernkastel-Wittlich), Kirchberg/Hunsrück (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), Herrstein-Rhaunen, Birkenfeld and Baumholder (Birkenfeld) and parts of the free municipality of Morbach (Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich) and the large county town of Idar-Oberstein (Birkenfeld).[3]

Core zones[]

There are seven core zones in the Rhineland –Palatinate part of the park, which are specially protected:[3]

Rivers and streams[]

Mountains and hills[]

The mountains and hills in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park include the following – sorted by height in metres (m) above sea level (Normalnull or NN; unless otherwise stated these are referenced from state map service[4]):

Saar-Hunsrück-Steig[]

One of the nature park's projects is the 218-kilometre-long "premier" long-distance path, the [7] from Perl on the border with Luxembourg via Mettlach, Weiskirchen and the Roman city of Trier to the , continuing via the Erbeskopf, the circular rampart of Otzenhausen, to the Wildenburger Kopf and finally to Idar-Oberstein.

See also[]

Literature[]

  • Hans-Martin Braun and Carsten Braun: Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park - Stille Schönheit. Tecklenborg Verlag, Steinfurt, 2002, ISBN 3-934427-25-1

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ Constitution of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park Society Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Saarländische Verordnung über den „Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park“ vom 1. März 2007, zuletzt geändert durch Verordnung vom 30. Juli 2010
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Rhineland-Palatinate State Act for the "Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park" dated 14 February 1980, last amended on 20 July 1985
  4. ^ Map service of the Landscape Information System of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Office (Naturschutzverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz)
  5. ^ Article entitled Wie hoch is der Erbeskopf nun wirklich? dated 17 January 2008 at lvermgeo.rlp.de (retrieved 31 January 2013)
  6. ^ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  7. ^ Homepage Saar-Hunsrück-Steig, retrieved 24 January 2014

Coordinates: 49°34′N 6°46′E / 49.56°N 6.76°E / 49.56; 6.76

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