The Nature Park Nordeifel is part of the cross-border German-Belgian Nature Park High Fens - Eifel. Landscaped speaking, this part of the Nordeifel around Prüm is known as the High Eifel. It is characterized by the mountain range Schneifel.

The name Schneifel derives from "Schnee-Eifel" - and it is no coincidence: The clouds coming from the northwest from the Atlantic cool down significantly when they rise over the almost 700-meter-high peaks and precipitate their moisture in the form of rain or snow on the heights. Therefore, a cool, precipitation-rich climate prevails here, especially on the northwest slopes. The original forest suffered the same fate as everywhere in the Eifel. Overexploitation and deforestation due to pasture, shifting cultivation, charcoal production, and oak bark harvesting led to the decline of natural deciduous forests. In the past century, reforestation with spruces followed, which now predominantly shapes the forest landscape of the High Eifel. Nevertheless, these extensive forests, far from settlements, serve as habitats for rare and shy forest bird species.

Intensive livestock farming shapes agriculture in the High Eifel. Mixed hedges and clusters of shrubs intersperse the grasslands and offer bird species like the yellowhammer a singing perch, and the red-backed shrike a hunting perch and nesting site. Burrowing animals, dormice, mice, and shrews from this richly structured landscape, in turn, provide the food source for buzzards, black-winged kites, weasels, or mice weasels.

Climate, soil conditions, and topography have given rise to bogs and heaths in the High Eifel. High rainfall, a poor, water-retaining subsoil, and a gentle slope form the prerequisites for the formation of bogs. All of this is found in Schneifel: near the Schwarze Mann, the highest elevation at 689 m, over 1000 mm of rainfall falls annually, which is retained on flat, clayey-loamy substrates.