ブラッハターヴァルトの天然記念物・トップ8

No cars and lots of nature

It's quite impressive to think of the vast amounts of ammunition stored here. Now nature is reclaiming the area.

Here you have the whole range of paths: tarred, gravelled, grass trails, sand trails,... flat, rising, falling,... and on top of that, pure nature.

A great area for cycling and hiking.

The Brüggen-Bracht ammunition depot, also known as the "3 Base Ammunition Depot" (3 BAD), was the most important ammunition depot of the British armed forces in Western Europe. It was used from 1948 to 1996 and after the British withdrew it became the property of the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Homeland and Cultural Heritage and the Economic Development Company for the Viersen District. The site is located about three kilometers northwest of Brüggen and covered an area of 1,600 to 1,800 hectares. In the final phase, the depot included around 200 halls and storage areas in which the 20,000 to 50,000 tons of ammunition were stored. While in the early years so-called "open sites" or small and large corrugated iron huts without foundations were used, from the second half of the 1950s onwards splinter protection walls were built around storage areas and halls with concrete foundations. Depending on the hazard class of the stored ammunition, the floor area of the halls and the height of the splinter protection walls were coordinated to limit the damage to a small area in the event of a detonation. => https://www.kuladig.de/Objektansicht/O-68099-20130625-2

It's quite interesting to drive through here.

Depending on the route you choose, the Brachter Forest allows you to cycle for kilometers without worries

Nature reserve with wide paved roads and remains of military buildings, many deer spotted. Special atmosphere.