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Schwarzbachtal with Krenkeltal and Haberg
Nature conservation area/natural monument
Schwarzbach system nature reserve with Haberg and Krenkeltal
Address
Schwarzbachtal with Krenkeltal and Haberg
57399 Kirchhundem
Properties:
The picturesque Krenkeltal is part of the nature reserve "Schwarzbachsystem mit Haberg und Krenkeltal".
The small valley owes its name to the "Krenkelsbach", which characterizes the idyllic valley from its source almost to its mouth (into the Heinsberg stream).
The small valley owes its name to the "Krenkelsbach", which characterizes the idyllic valley from its source almost to its mouth (into the Heinsberg stream).
The 312-hectare nature reserve (NSG) consists of six sub-areas and is located in the municipality of Kirchhundem (Olpe district) south of the Panorama Park and extends east to the district border with Siegen-Wittgenstein.
The nature reserve is characterized by a near-natural, extensive, highly branched stream system of the Schwarzbach, Meinscheidbach and their tributaries (including the Krenkelsbach!).
The nature reserve has springs in larger or smaller hillside spring moors and moor and swamp forests. There are stream-side alder alluvial forests and riparian woodlands, birch and alder swamp and bog forests. In the floodplains there are also Wacholderheide and mountain heaths, bristle grass meadows, species-rich wet tall herb meadows, small and large sedge reeds, wet and poor fallow land, wet, damp and poor grassland, and
in the disused railroad tunnel between the Krenkel and Schwarzbachtal valleys there is an important winter roost for bats. In the area of the tunnel portals, the Krenkelsbach was led over the cut in the terrain required for the former railroad line by means of a "water bridge", the so-called aqueduct.
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