Aachen Forest

It essentially comprises the forest areas of the former free imperial city of Aachen south and west of the formerly independent municipalities of Burtscheid and Forst [de], as well as north and east of the Belgian border.

It lies in the transition zone between the Lower Rhine Plain and the Rhenish Massif, at an average height of 220 metres above sea level.

The ridge runs from west to east, forming a watershed, the streams rising south of this line flow mostly into the Göhl and then the Meuse.

In addition, in the 20th century, two housing estates belonging to the city of Aachen were built within the forest; a small one in the area of Pommerotter Weg and another, the quarter of Preuswald, along the southern part of Lütticher Straße.

In the forest can be found remnants of the high voltage fence, which was built at the beginning of the First World War, as a means of preventing Belgians from escaping military service by fleeing to the Netherlands.