Naturpark Öewersauer

The region, with the Haute-Sûre reservoir, its tributaries and watershed, is Luxembourg's «water region» par excellence. Water has been, and will continue to be, the common thread running through many of the Nature Park's projects. Ensuring the development of a rural region, while taking into account and benefiting from its natural and cultural potential, is a constant challenge. And this is exactly what the concept of the Nature Park is all about.

Our missions:

The Haute-Sûre Nature Park is a joint municipal-communal association.
The Park operates according to its guiding principle, which is to promote sustainable regional development while respecting water protection, and works in the following 7 fields of action:

• coordination and networking
• protecting nature and landscapes
• education for sustainable development
• regional marketing
• tourism
• the culture
• agriculture

Close collaboration between the communes and the ministries represented on the Nature Park Committee (regional planning, agriculture, tourism, environment) has led to a multitude of projects and initiatives.
in the field of sustainable regional development, e.g. «vum Séi» regional products, sculpture and nature trails, solar boat, eau'tomobile, biological station, etc.

Solar boat, «Naturpark-Entdecker-Mobil», «Naturparkschoulhéich3 - nohalteg erliewen» project, children's magazine «4 am Revéier», «Entdeckerwesten» project, multigenerational workshops, biological station, nature trails, water festival, Upper Sûre river contract, climate pact, nature pact, «Land of memory» project, «vum Séi» regional products, LAKU cooperation, ...

National partners: Naturpark Our and Natur- & Geopark Mëllerdall; Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning; Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Biodiversity; Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Viticulture; ANF; biological stations; Klima-Agency; Naturmusée; EbL; regional museums; SNJ
International partners: Cooperation of German- and French-speaking Nature Parks
National networks: Plateforme EEDD, SCRIPT, Ifen, UpFondation
International networks: Réseau des Parcs Naturels de la Grande Région, réseau des partenaires de formation à l'éducation au développement durable (BNE-EDD) de la Grande Région, EUROPARC

The Haute-Sûre Nature Park was created to protect and promote the natural and cultural features of the region around the dam lake, and to make them known beyond its borders. Those in charge of the park are also involved in various projects aimed at the sustainable development of the region and raising public awareness of environmental issues. The aim of the Parc Naturel de la Haute-Sûre and the communes established within its territory is to organize work and leisure in an ecological, economic, socially useful and sustainable way.

• Raising public and tourist awareness of environmental issues
• Protect and promote the region's natural and cultural features
• Organize work and leisure in an ecological, economical, socially useful and sustainable way
• Promoting sustainable development

The aim of the Nature Park is to enable young and old alike to experience and understand regional nature and culture, as well as the relationship between the two, through environmental education based on the following principles
experiences and sensations, with a particular focus on children and young people. In addition, the Nature Park develops and implements awareness-raising offers for local residents, visitors, municipalities and other target groups.

The priority themes are

• Biodiversity
• Nature and landscape protection
• Environmental education
• Protecting resources
• Agriculture
• Regional marketing
• Tourism and culture