Feldatal‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪3‬개의 천연기념물

As part of the Heinzemann tour, you cross the Felda several times and hike through the Feldatal with its idyllic meadows.

The “Backofenhausteich” is named after an oven-shaped vaulted cellar built into the mountain.

The Felda is a 30 km long river in the Ohmtal.

The dense beech forests in the Feldatal near Gemünden.

The forests you walk through after the Elsgrabenteichen are considered “woodruff beech forests”, a habitat type that is characteristic of Hesse. The Vogelsberg basalt is the basis for the alkaline soil, which produces a very species-rich and well-developed herb layer, especially with the eponymous woodruff. In order to improve the living conditions, especially for species worthy of protection that are tied to old and dead wood, 10% of the forest area in the state forest has been completely removed from use as so-called core areas in accordance with HessenForst's nature conservation guidelines and is left to natural development as "primeval forests of the future". In the Feldatal there is a focus on the Schotten and Romrod forestry offices, which together have around 300 hectares of beech forest.

The 42.2 km long Felda rises in the Hohen Vogelsberg and flows into the Ohm in Nieder-Gemünden. The river is a flowing water with flooding aquatic vegetation; it meanders through the valley in a largely natural bed. With its stands of alder and ash trees lining the stream, it forms a natural stream floodplain system that is rare today. Here you can find plant communities tied to wetlands, such as sedge species and marsh marigold meadows. To maintain the floodplain grassland, this is done once or twice mown annually, adapted to the respective plant communities. If the water quality is good, in addition to brown trout, other fish species include minnow, loach and the two FFH species bullhead and brown lamprey. This environment offers good habitats and food sources for the gray wagtail, the dipper and several species of bats. Also represented is the black stork, a typical forest dweller and indicator of low-disturbance, old-growth forest ecosystems. To search for food, it uses a variety of wetlands, e.g. streams rich in fish, ponds and natural floodplain areas. The Feldatal is an important resting area for migratory birds. Photo Felda: © Dunja Wernedorf

Bats nest and overwinter in the eponymous oven house.

You have to look closely until you see the oven between the leaves.