Bockerter Heide, Nature reserve in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

The NSG Bockerter Heide is a nature reserve in Mönchengladbach featuring mixed forests of oak, beech, and birch trees across protected land. The area includes both open spaces and denser woodland sections that support different types of wildlife.

The reserve protects a late-medieval cultural landscape whose hedges, coppiced beech and oak woods, land weirs, ramparts and border ditches survived the land consolidation of the 20th century. Flax pits and cattle tracks record earlier farming use. The 168.36-hectare area lies at Viersen's southern edge, bordering Mönchengladbach.

The name Bockerter Heide refers to the old Viersen district of Bockert on whose edge the reserve lies. Among the historic elements preserved here are Flachskuhlen, small hollows where flax was retted, and Viehtriften, droveways used to move livestock. Visitors can still make out these traces of former farming use in the terrain.

Walking and cycling paths provide easy access throughout the reserve in a sustainable way. Motorized vehicles are not permitted to protect the landscape and maintain its natural character.

Among the five Red List bird species recorded here is the turtle dove, alongside the tree pipit and cuckoo. The reserve also shelters the marsh warbler and melodious warbler, while woodpeckers find nesting holes in the scattered field copses that break up the surrounding farmland.