The Arnsberg Forest Nature Park ( German : Naturpark Arnsberger Wald ) is a nature park in the districts of Hochsauerlandkreis and Soest within the administrative region of Arnsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The park was established in 1960 and covers an area of 482 km. Nearly 350 km of the protection is forested and the park's wooded hills rise up to 581.5 m above sea level (NN) .
12-717: The nature park, which consists of the Arnsberg Forest in the west and the Warstein Forest in the east, is important for the regional economy both in terms of forestry and tourism. The two forests form a densely wooded part of the Süder Uplands within the Rhine Massif . The Arnsberg Forest Nature Park lies between the river Möhne in the north, on which the Möhne Reservoir is located, and
24-695: Is also worth visiting as are the observation towers of Lörmecke Tower (near the highest point in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park between Warstein and Eversberg ), the Küppel Tower (near Meschede-Freienohls) and the Delecke Bismarck Tower (north of Möhnesee-Delecke). Many trails wind through the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park and its hills and valleys. The best known are the Upland Trail (no. "X 13") and
36-641: Is drained centrally, south to north by the river Rhine and a few of its tributaries. West of the indent of the Cologne Bight it has the Eifel and the Belgian and French Ardennes ; east is its greatest German component, the Süder Uplands . The Hunsrück hills form its southwest. The Westerwald is an eastern strip. The Lahn - Dill area is a small central zone and the Taunus Mountains form
48-760: The Ruhr and Möhne, which border the forests, as well as other water courses that feed the Möhne and Ruhr: The hills and hilltops of the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park include: the Warsteiner Kopf (556.9 m; fourth-highest hill), the Gemeinheitskopf (551.9 m; fifth-highest hill) the Niekopf (550.4 m; sixth-highest hill) and the Nuttlarer Höhe (542.2 m). These are the best known hills in
60-530: The Renn Trail (no. "X 26"). 51°23′44″N 8°20′46″E / 51.39556°N 8.34611°E / 51.39556; 8.34611 Rhine Massif The Rhenish Massif , Rhine Massif or Rhenish Uplands ( German : Rheinisches Schiefergebirge , pronounced [ˈʁaɪnɪʃəs ˈʃiːfɐɡəˌbɪʁɡə] : 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany , eastern Belgium , Luxembourg and northeastern France . It
72-533: The deep valley of the Ruhr in the south. Between these two valleys the park is situated between Möhnesee in the northwest, Rüthen in the northeast, Brilon in the east, Olsberg in the southeast, Meschede in the south and Arnsberg in the southwest; Warstein lies within the nature reserve . To the north is the heavily forested region of the Haarstrang , to the east are the Brilon Heights , to
84-692: The eastern Rhenish Massif some very limited outcrops in the Sauerland show rocks of Ordovician and lower Siliurian age. Further Ordovician rock exposures are part of the southern Taunus . The second rock type are Tertiary and Quaternary igneous rocks , which most prominently occur in the Vulkaneifel , the Westerwald and the Vogelsberg . The volcanic rocks have been linked to a mantle plume that, due to its low density and buoyancy, uplifted
96-647: The entire region during the last few hundred thousand years, as measured from the present elevation of old river terraces. The mountain and hill ranges within the Rhenish Massif - some with maximum height in metres above sea level (NN) ) are given below: West of the Rhine from north(west) to south(east) East of the Rhine from north(west) to south(east) 51°00′N 7°50′E / 51.000°N 7.833°E / 51.000; 7.833 Cologne Bight Too Many Requests If you report this error to
108-805: The massif is part of the Rhenohercynian zone of this orogeny, that also encompasses the Harz further east and Devonian rocks of Cornwall (southwestern England ). Most rocks in the Rhenish Massif were originally sediments, mostly deposited during the Devonian and Carboniferous in a back-arc basin called the Rhenohercynian basin . In some places in the Ardennes, even older rocks of Cambrian to Silurian age crop out as massifs overlain by Devonian slates. These older rocks form smaller massifs of their own ( Stavelot , Rocroi , Givonne and Serpont ). In
120-538: The nature park because, unlike the other local heights they are shown on most of the maps and the specialised reference books. There are also, as the following list shows, a number of unnamed hilltops. In or on the edge of the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park are numerous villages belonging to these municipalities and towns: The Bilstein Cave southwest of Warstein in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park attracts many tourists. The cave of Hohler Stein southwest of Rüthen-Kallenhardts
132-603: The rest, the south-east. The massif hosts the Middle Rhine Valley ( Rhine Gorge ), a UNESCO World Heritage site linked to the lowest parts of the Moselle ( German : Mosel , Luxembourgish : Musel ). Geologically the Rhenish Massif consists of metamorphic rocks , mostly slates (hence its German name), deformed and metamorphosed during the Hercynian orogeny (around 300 million years ago). Most of
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#1732791097221144-758: The south is the Rothaargebirge , to the southwest is the Lennegebirge and to the west the terrain gradually descends towards Dortmund into the Ruhr . The best-known water feature in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park is the Möhnesee , set in the Möhne valley between the Haarstrang in the north and the Arnsberg Forest in the south. Numerous rivers run through the wooded valleys. These include
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