Top 20 Natural Monuments around Reichweiler

Indeed a big oak. I couldn't quickly read how old it is, but the tree is certainly impressive, although it is a bit hidden among other trees.

Some of the Leitersweiler beeches are over 300 years old, but unfortunately their lifespan is also limited and some of these impressive trees have fallen in recent years.

You really have to hike.

The tree has already seen a lot....

𝑫𝒊𝒆 "𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆 𝑬𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒆" The "thick oak" is a stem oak. It was once dedicated to the god of thunder Donar (Thor). The English oak can be more than 45m high and 600 years and older. Its buds are egg-shaped, somewhat rounded and heaped at the ends of the branches. The flowers are pendulous catkins, singly or in groups. The leaves are spiral, standing. The fruit is a nut in a woody cup. The "thick oak" has a circumference of 4.20m. Source: Text information board

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐳𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 / 𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐚𝐥 / 𝐎𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧 The gnarled shapes of the old "Leitersweiler beeches" open up this nature reserve in the north on a side knoll of the Bosenberg. From the source in the forest at over 400 m, this 110 hectare nature reserve then accompanies the Tiefenbach, which runs through the forest in its natural bed, to its confluence with the Oster. This nature reserve belongs to the European nature reserve system NATURA 2000 and offers e.g. habitats for the birds in need of protection: red kite, kingfisher and black woodpecker. In the valley of the Oster, there is still something very special to see: a "human-made biotope design" planned at the beginning of the 80s, which can be considered one of the first realized facilities of this objective. The wet meadows there were in the 30s by straightening the former Meandering Easter emerged and should be drained in the 70s as part of a land consolidation. However, the resistance of the then strengthening nature conservation movement arose successfully. The meadows were not simply left to nature, but by the nature conservation authority to a pond landscape with islands, shallow water After 25 years it can be said that a considerable pioneering work on the subject of "habitat design" has been achieved, which also gained experience for other measures of water renaturation or biotope design. Source: Text information board

𝐃𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐧 The first evidence of coal mining in this area comes from 1780. The coal was close to the surface and could be extracted in open-cast mining. From 1820, four pits (called Prinzengrube) in the Tiefenbachtal were also mined in tunnels. The concession holders were the brothers Karl and Philipp Cetto from Langenfelderhof, today Wendelinushof. During this period there are talk of 136 employees who extracted almost 14,000 quintals of hard coal. In 1860 the operation was stopped because larger coal seams had meanwhile been discovered on the Saar and Blies. The miners reached the tunnel via the “miners' path”, which is now part of the Tiefenbach path. On their way they passed the source in the Tiefenbachtal and filled up their drinking water here. This spring is still known today as the miner's well. Source: Text information board

𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 The striking group of trees was first mentioned in 1618 at the beginning of the Thirty Years War. The beeches, some of which are more than 450 years old, have been under nature protection since 1913. The natural monument is a popular viewpoint and excursion point. At the beginning of the 19th century, next to the beech trees, there was an optical telegraph pole, which belonged to the telegraph line from Metz to Mainz and which made it much easier to transmit messages over long distances. The individual stations were set up on hills around 10 kilometers apart. When the mast was put into operation, the people of Leitersweiler rumored that all important information was now being sent over their heads. Source: Text information board