The best walks and hikes around Nutteln

There's now a trash can 😄 And two benches with a table. Very beautiful during the heather blooms.

Anyone remember the Blair Witch Project movie? Similar chills ran down my spine as I unsuspectingly approached a spooky cabin in these woods. Walking along narrow paths through this lonely and very quiet forest, the devilish attraction along the way is actually a little spooky. 😉

"You should look for a book, you should give way to oaks." This beech certainly thought too ... A little tree knowledge whether this proverb is correct can be found here: https://www.wohllebens-waldakademie.de/buchen-sollst-du-suchen-s27254

The common name used to be fruit meadow, it is still used in some regions today. In the new federal states, until the reunification, they said an orchard or a grass garden. The terms orchards and orchards have developed from the term fruit growing in scattered areas. According to current knowledge, the term fruit trees and willows in scattered areas was first used by Rinaldini in 1924 for Romania / Transylvania, but then again in 1940 by Knauer for the tall fruit growing in Schleswig-Holstein and in 1941 by Spreng in Switzerland. The term orchard was first used by Zeller in 1953, [5] then frequently in the 1950s and in a negative way to distinguish it from half and low-stem fruit growing, which was also becoming increasingly widespread in Germany. The term "orchard meadow" only originated in 1975. He was shaped by the ornithologist Ullrich, who in a publication pointed out the special importance of the orchards in the foothills of the Alb for bird protection. The terms orchards and fruit have nothing to do with the wet, acidic litter meadows and the litter in the stables. Rather, they refer to the large distance between the scattered trees. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streuobstwiese Mostly diverse apple varieties, but also pear and plum are among them

The Herrenmoor nature reserve near Kleve is located on the edge of the Elbmarsch in the transition area to the Geest. It is framed in the north by the villages of Kleve and Nutteln, in the west by Vaalermoor, in the east by Moorhusen and in the south by Neuendorf-Sachsenbande. It is a raised bog that once stretched from Heiligenstedten to the Kudensee (Dithmarschen). In its core area, high-quality and species-rich remains of raised bogs have been preserved. The area, also known as the “Great Moor” in old documents, was not included in the dike for a long time. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the bog was heavily interfered with by starting with drainage, mining the black peat for the production of fuel and transporting it over the floodplains and rivers. In the middle of the 19th century settlement began to increase, which intensified the drainage and cultivation of the moor. A colony of settlers developed on the moor southwest of the villages of Nutteln and Vaale, which led to the establishment of the municipality of Vaalermoor on June 16, 1857. The "Herrenmoor bei Kleve" is the oldest moor nature reserve in the Steinburg district. A core area of 13 hectares was designated as a protected area as early as 1938. Through the purchase of the district and the Nature Conservation Foundation, the nature reserve has now grown to 213 hectares. As part of the coherent European "Natura 2000" network, the Herrenmoor has been reported to the EU as a flora-fauna-habitat area (FFH area). Source: https://www.steinburg.de/kreisverwaltung/informationen-der-fachaemter/amt-fuer-umweltschutz/naturschutz/schutzgebiete-u-geschuetzt-objekte/naturschutzgebiete/herrenmoor-bei-kleve.html

This is so wonderful here, we are absolutely thrilled. It is rather lonely here and not so crowded

Impressive memorial in honor of soldiers killed in World War I.

Still quite small apple trees but that will be fine