High Fens – Eifel Nature Park
High Fens – Eifel Nature Park | |
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Naturpark Hohes Venn – Eifel | |
Liège, Belgium | |
Nearest city | Schleiden, Germany |
Coordinates | 50°30′29″N 6°22′12″E / 50.508°N 6.37°E[1] |
Area | 2,485 km2 (959 sq mi) |
Established | 1960 |
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Official name | Les Hautes Fagnes |
Designated | 24 March 2003 |
Reference no. | 1405[2] |
The
The nature park lies between
The geographical description North Eifel in its narrowest sense only covers the Eifel landscape between Zitter Forest in the south and Aachen in the north, Bad Münster Eifel to the east and over the Rur Eifel to the Belgian border in the west. The Hohe Venn is geographically seen as a separate natural region within the whole Eifel area, but is nevertheless included in the nature park.
History
In 1960, the president of the now-defunct administrative district of Aachen, Hubert Schmitt-Degenhardt, founded the North Eifel Nature Park. In 1971 it was merged with the Belgian Parc Naturel Hautes Fagnes to become the Hohes Venn – Eifel Nature Park. The emblem of the nature park is the black grouse.[3]
Eifel National Park
In the middle of the nature park, largely around the former Belgian Army
Literature
- Baedeker Reiseführer Belgien
See also
References
- ^ "Hohes Venn (Nordeifel) Nature Park". protectedplanet.net.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Les Hautes Fagnes". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ "V. Auszug aus der Verordnung über das Reichswirtschaftsgericht", Die Kartellverordnung, De Gruyter, pp. 130–143, 1925-12-31, retrieved 2022-06-17