Bleialf is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm , in Rhineland-Palatinate , western Germany .
4-512: Bleialf lies in the North Eifel Nature Park . The Alfbach stream flows through the village. There is an ancient mine shaft and tunnels that are no longer in use, which now are open to public. This Bitburg-Prüm location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . North Eifel Nature Park The German - Belgian High Fens – Eifel Nature Park ( German : Naturpark Hohes Venn – Eifel ), often called
8-509: The North Eifel Nature Park ( Naturpark Nord Eifel ), is a cross-border nature park with elements in the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate as well as the Belgian province of Liège . It has a total area of 2,485 km (959 sq mi). The nature park lies between Langerwehe and Eupen in the north and Bad Münstereifel , Prüm and Sankt Vith in
12-626: The east and over the Rur Eifel to the Belgian border in the west. The Hohe Venn is geographically seen as a separate natural region within the whole Eifel area, but is nevertheless included in the nature park. In 1960, the president of the now-defunct administrative district of Aachen, Hubert Schmitt-Degenhardt, founded the North Eifel Nature Park. In 1971 it was merged with the Belgian Parc Naturel Hautes Fagnes to become
16-783: The south and covers six regions: the Rur Eifel , the High Eifel , the Limestone Eifel , the Our valley, the Venn Foreland and the Hohes Venn , a raised bog and heath landscape, remnants of the last ice age 7,500 years ago. The geographical description North Eifel in its narrowest sense only covers the Eifel landscape between Zitter Forest in the south and Aachen in the north, Bad Münster Eifel to
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