Lennebergwald

As Lenneberg forest or Gonsenheimer forest is called an approximately 700 -acre, protected nature woodland in Rheinhessen, the between Mainz districts Finthen, Gonsenheim and the communities Bude home and Heidenheim am Rhein, where the district Uhlerborn extends. The largest part of the forest belongs to Bude home.

Characteristic of the Lenneberg forest is to be very dry, sandy soil and high soil temperature. This caused you find here mainly pine and oak trees and a dry grassland flora in adjacent diverse nature reserve Large sand.

Great importance is the Gonsenheimer forest under the aspect of ecology and a recreational area for joggers, Nordic walkers, mountain bikers and walkers who use the hundreds of thousands a year, the many excellent hiking trails. In Lenneberg forest several cultural monuments shack home, such as the Old St. Wendelin Chapel, the Lenneberg Tower are ( a lookout tower in the Gothic Revival style with staircase tower, 1878-1880 by Philipp Johann Berdelle ), the New St. Wendelin Chapel ( Gothic Revival rubble stone hall, 1862-1866) and the water tank Budenheim ( Art Nouveau circular building, inscription dated 1907, architect Wilhelm Lenz) and Gonsenheim ( Art Nouveau, an inscription dated 1909, also by Wilhelm Lenz).