Sheep Barn in the Wacholderheide Lette

Landscape contrasts lie very close to one another in Lette: sparse heath vegetation on sandy soils in the Letter Heide and lush grassland in the damp Letter Bruch. The first stop is the Letter Juniper Heath, which invites you on a journey into the landscape history of the region between Coesfeld and Dülmen: what is now limited to 13 hectares filled entire stretches of land in the past centuries. In order to preserve the heath, Heidschnucken from the Lette Local History and Tourism Association have been working as landscape conservationists since 2008. From the heath, the route then goes to the Letter Bruch to the south. The nature reserve has an outstanding function in the biotope network as a breeding and feeding habitat for characteristic meadow birds such as the curlew and the lapwing. However, drainage measures, particularly in the middle of the 20th century, meant that the calls of meadow birds that were once common could hardly be heard anymore and the valuable wet meadow communities disappeared, with only a few remnants remaining. Since the 1990s, around 30 hectares of grassland have been extensively managed in cooperation between agriculture and nature conservation. In order to optimize the habitat of meadow birds, several ponds have also been created since 2008. Address: Im Sanden 36, 48653 Coesfeld-Lette

Sheepfold in the juniper heath: naturschutzzentrum-coesfeld.de/schafschur-in-der-wacholderheide-lette

Sheep of different breeds graze in the stable that has been relocated here, which is worth seeing.