The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Pferdsbroich

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Kaarster See station is one of five rail stops in Kaarst and a stop on the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is located on the Neuss-Viersen railway line and is the western terminus of line S 28. It is named after Lake Kaarster. The station was opened in 1999 on the Neuss-Viersen railway line to serve the western part of Kaarst. Since then it has served as the start/end point of the S 28, which was newly created in the same year. It is also the terminus at the western end of the part of the railway line that is in operation. Deutsche Bahn wanted to close the railway line completely in the 1990s, but sold it to Regiobahn GmbH, which took it over and renovated it in 1998. The station is located around 900 meters east of Lake Kaarster and at the westernmost point of the populated Kaarst urban area, as well as immediately south of the Nordkanal and Neersener Straße. The Kaarster See hiking car park is 1000 meters away and the Kaarster See sports center, which is not directly on the shore, is 750 meters from the S-Bahn station. (...) On the other side of Neersener Straße there is a bus stop, a P+R car park and bicycle parking spaces. Access to the platform is via ramps and is therefore barrier-free. The station is now the western starting point of line S 28 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is operated by Regiobahn and runs every 20 minutes Monday to Friday from Kaarster See to Mettmann-Stadtwald via Neuss main station and Düsseldorf main station. Two out of three trips per hour run via Mettmann to Wuppertal main station. On weekends and public holidays, a 30-minute interval is offered along the entire route. The station is also the starting point for two regional bus lines from neighboring Willich and a regional bus line to Kaarst, Neuss-Neusserfurth and Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnhof_Kaarster_See

(Only that this highlight doesn't show the North Canal at all, but the Jüchener Bach, @Irma and @Oliver... 🙄) The Jüchener Bach is a river near Jüchen. The Jüchener Bach, whose source is near Jüchen, was originally fed by three spring streams on the eastern slope of the Lösshöhe and ends at Unterbruch, a district of Willich-Schiefbahn, in the North Canal, west of Kaarst. According to an older map, which does not take into account recent relocations, the Jüchener Bach flows from the area of the Jüchen train station in a northeasterly direction to Bedburdyck, then turns north, flows north via Aldenhoven, St. Nikolas, Scherfhausen, Glehn and Kleinenbroich and flows into the North Canal east of the Schiefbahn train station and west of Linning. Tributaries • Kotthundsgraben (right), 0.8 km • Scheulenbendgraben (left), 1.4 km • Kelzenberger Bach (left), 8.0 km • Kommerbach (left), 7.8 km The Jüchener Bach was called Dieckbach in the 19th century and was at that time a right-bank tributary of the Trietbach, which flowed into the Niers on the right bank via a canalized estuary, the Klergraben,[10] near the district of Unterbroich or Unterbruch of Schiefbahn. The source and course of the stream have changed again and again due to open-cast lignite mining and the development of the cultural landscape. Today the stream is mainly fed by replacement water. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCchener_Bach

The Willich-Schiefbahn radio tower (also called the Roman Tower) is located in the east of the Willich district of Schiefbahn near the A52. It is 123 meters high and was built in 1970 by the German Federal Post Office. The tower and the platform are built in a solid reinforced concrete construction. It is managed by Deutsche Funkturm, which is part of Deutsche Telekom AG. The tower is not open to the public and is built exclusively for use as a radio tower. The radio tower is currently (2023) used for mobile phone and radio antennas. The tower was previously also used for terrestrial television and radio. The regional radio station NE-WS 89.4 was broadcast from there until 1996. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldeturm_Willich-Schiefbahn

The Pferdsbroich (...) is a protected swamp forest area. (...) The Pferdsbroich lies between Kleinenbroich (in the south) and the neighboring towns of Kaarst-Vorst (in the east) and Willich-Schiefbahn (in the northwest). (...) In the east and south of the area there are two quarry lakes in the Kaarst Lake District. (...) The eastern Pferdsbroichsee, known as the Bressersee, was designed as a natural area after the gravel mining was completed and complements the neighboring nature reserve. In addition to the large quarry lake, a number of smaller, shallow ponds were created as spawning grounds for fish and habitats for amphibians. A similar process will be followed with the southern lake after the gravel extraction has been completed. The Pferdsbroich nature reserve is embedded in the Jüchener Bachaue landscape conservation areas in the east and the Trietbachaue / Raderbroicher Busch / Hoppbruch in the west. The Pferdsbroich is located at the outermost edge of the area of influence of the floodplain for the Garzweiler opencast mine, which is located about 15 km further south. However, this only results in a slight lowering of the water levels in the area. The embankment of the Rhine and the gravel mining had a more serious effect on the moisture. The Pferdsbroich is a floodplain forest area typical of the Lower Rhine region in a silted-up old river channel (...) of the (...) original Rhine. As the silting increased, (...) a fen of fen forest and swampy waters developed in the lowlands. On the edge of the floodplain and fen forest there are some agriculturally used wet meadows and wild fields (...). The Pferdsbroich forms the habitat for numerous moisture-loving animal and plant species (...): Depending on the moisture, the tree population ranges from sedge-alder swamp forest in the wettest locations to poplar, bird cherry-alder-ash forest and pedunculate oak-hornbeam forest to partially reforested mixed forest of ash, linden, maple and oak in the dry areas. The rare and endangered plant species include snakeroot, marsh marigold, stiff sedge, millet sedge, autumn crocus, water fern, winged St. John's wort, marsh trefoil, spiked milfoil, greater fleawort, yellow meadow rue and marsh fern. (...) Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pferdsbroich

Nice gimmick on a beautiful forest circuit in the Nordkanal area near the Kaarster See.

Beautiful path that can also be used as a parallel path to the cycle path along the North Canal. In summer it is shady and sheltered from the wind.