Former shooting range in NSG Buschei

Until the 1990s still military restricted area, today nature takes its way back

Former shooting range of the Wehrmacht, then the British Army of the Rhine - then a private shooting range ... closed today

The nature reserve was created as a military exclusion zone. Even before the Second World War, when the Dortmund-Brackel air base was used, later by the British Rhine Army and the German army, the area was inaccessible for decades.
The nature reserve consists of the Buschei forest, a pure deciduous forest with old oak and hornbeam stands, interspersed with beech and woodland quail grass, with open grassy areas, including the former pasture of officers' horses and the remains of bunkers and fenced-in shooting ranges as well as several ponds. The area is surrounded by arable land.