Facts
- Fertile farmland
- Traditional gardening and fruit growing area
- Numerous farm stores, organic farms and market gardens
This landscape is the fertile land of origin of Bornheim's asparagus, strawberries and all the fruit and vegetables that thrive lushly along the foothills, sheltered from the wind and - one could almost say since time immemorial - have supplied the region. The farmers here have a long tradition of "urban gardening" for the region.
The plain and the foothills to the north of
Bonn are among the oldest and most productive horticultural
and fruit-growing regions in Germany.
In everyday speech, the plain is also
also known as the "foothills".
This advanced agricultural culture developed thanks to the flooding of the primeval Rhine thousands of years ago. The river left behind loess soil in its "primeval valley", which became fertile farmland. Due to the mild climate, farms and agriculture already existed in the Gartenland during the Ice Age. Two thousand years ago, the Romans supplied their camps and settlements in today's Cologne/Bonn region with fruit and vegetables from here and introduced asparagus.
Today, there is a central wholesale market in Bornheim-Roisdorf that supplies retail chains with fruit and vegetables. There are farm stores, organic farms and nurseries for ornamental plants. The region's best-known vegetable, asparagus, has been joined by other "immigrants" such as artichokes and zucchinis. In addition to traditional fields and gardens, the landscape is characterized by modern greenhouses and film-protected cultivation areas.
As part of the Green C project, the Link trail system is being expanded and eight landscape gates and three stations are being built.