Characterized by powerful old wood stocks from more than 160-year-old beech trees
These serve as the habitat of numerous, sometimes endangered animal and plant communities.
The nature reserve "Sterkrader Wald" has been designated due to its valuable peat moss-alder quarry forest with well-trained, rare and endangered plant communities,
old brook meanders and marl pits as spawning waters for endangered amphibian species and as a habitat for numerous species of insects.
