Photo: Lila la Loop
Experience unique nature up close.
The Ruhr River meanders through North Rhine-Westphalia like a silver ribbon. It holds the landscape together and gives the Ruhr region its name. But what truly shines are the stories that... Flora and fauna Write here. The kingfisher glides like a sparkling gemstone across the water's surface at Baldeneysee, while the grey heron stands on the bank with the serenity of an old sage. Foxes and rabbits play hide-and-seek in the undergrowth, hedgehogs scamper through the woods, and the beaver works at night like a secretive builder who never reveals his plans.
Game shrines in the game reserve
In the Heissiwald In Essen's southern district, the game reserve opens its gates to a world where fallow deer and wild boar dominate the scene. It's almost like stepping into a chapter of old fairy tales, where the animals still speak the language of the forest.
Hidden Paradise
The Heierstrang, a disused arm of the Ruhr near Essen-Werden between Hardenbergufer and the Brehminsel, It feels like a mysterious side path of history. Here, flora and fauna have created their own refuge: dragonflies dance like little fairies over the water, fish glide through the still depths, and plants twine around like a green web, transforming the place into a hidden paradise.
Baldeneysee – Stage of Nature
At Baldeneysee, the Ruhr finally unfolds like a ballroom. The water lily meadows lie on the banks like unrolled carpets, and in Heisinger Bogen, In the bird sanctuary, the curtain rises for a grand performance: grey herons, cormorants and many other feathered artists appear as if they wanted to show us that the stage of nature is never empty.
A stage for flora and fauna
On Baldeneysee.Ruhr, flora and fauna are given a stage in the categories "Animal of the Year", "Plant of the Year" and "Tree of the Year". Sometimes it is a bird that enchants the floodplains with its song, sometimes a plant that silently and quietly supports the ecosystem, and sometimes a tree that watches over the landscape like an ancient witness to history.
Nature in the spotlight
Thus, Baldeneysee and the Ruhr River become a fairytale book in which flora and fauna write the chapters – always new, always different. On the lakeshore and on the benches in the forests and meadows around the Baldeneysee We sit in the front row, listening, marveling and applauding when nature puts its main actors in the spotlight.
