Echinger Lohe, Nature reserve in Eching, Germany.

Echinger Lohe is a 23.8-hectare nature reserve on the Munich Gravel Plain in the municipality of Eching. It is a species-rich mixed forest of oaks, hornbeams, elms, ashes and maples, with blackthorn hedges at the forest edge. The path through the reserve has been closed since 2022 because of ash dieback.

The Echinger Lohe has been a nature reserve since 1951, registered under NSG-00044.01. In 1978 the 23.8-hectare area was additionally designated a natural forest reserve. It survived as a remnant of a former broad Lohwald belt between heathland and moorland because it was in state ownership.

The name Lohe refers to a light pasture woodland, and the reserve began as a Hudewald where cattle and pigs were driven to forage. Blackthorn hedges line the forest edge, and oaks, hornbeams, elms, ashes and maples form the mixed stand. Since 1978 the area has been a Naturwaldreservat, so the woodland is left to develop without forestry.

The path through the Echinger Lohe was closed in 2022 because ash dieback had severely damaged the ash trees. The reserve lies in the Munich gravel plain on the territory of Eching, and the Garchinger Heide reserve begins just under half a kilometre to the southeast.

The forest survived because it belonged to the state, and it was once a Hudewald where cattle and pigs were driven in to forage. In 2022 the path through the Echinger Lohe was closed after ash dieback severely damaged the ash trees.