Enkheimer Ried, Protected natural area in Frankfurt, Germany

Enkheimer Ried is a 28.23-hectare nature reserve at the eastern edge of Frankfurt's Bergen-Enkheim district, along the Tränkebach stream. Its central feature is the 4.5-hectare Riedteich pond, a partly silted old arm of the Main and Kinzig rivers. The reserve includes wet meadows, reed beds and alder and willow stands; the pond shore is closed to the public for bird protection.

The land transformed from swampy Main River floodplain into a series of ponds through peat extraction activities between 1829 and 1864. This industrial past created the conditions that shaped today's protected habitat.

The name Ried refers to the marshland that once covered the area. The reserve is part of Frankfurt's Grüngürtel, and a section of the Grüngürtel-Rad-Rundweg passes through it, but the Riedteich shore is closed to the public to protect birds and other wildlife.

A section of the Grüngürtel-Rad-Rundweg cycle loop runs through the Ried and along the Riedteich shore, but the water's edge itself is closed to the public for nature and bird protection. The reserve lies between the L 3209 to the north and the Enkheimer Wald to the south, with the A 66 about a kilometre away. The Tränkebach, called Riedgraben in Frankfurt, was renaturalised along roughly 600 m in 1997.

The ponds were dug for peat between 1829 and 1864, when the Enkheim community leased the land for that purpose; the pits reached up to five metres deep. Ice was then cut from them until 1924, and to increase the yield the water was dammed in autumn and the meltwater released the following spring.