Löwenstein Mountains

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Löwenstein Mountains
The Löwenstein Mountains in the west of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains

The Löwensteiner mountains to the west of the
natural environment Swabian-Franconian Forest

Highest peak Raitelberg ( 561.1  m above sea  level )
location Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
part of Swabian-Franconian Forest
Coordinates 49 ° 5 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E
Type Mountain country
rock Keuper
View from the coal level near Farnersberg in east-southeast direction to the Stocksberg near Stocksberg

View from the coal level near Farnersberg in east-
southeast direction to the Stocksberg near Stocksberg

Keuperweg near Heilbronn - a geological educational trail

Keuperweg near Heilbronn - a geological educational trail

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The Löwenstein mountains are one to 561.1  m above sea level. NHN high ridge in the district of Heilbronn , district of Ludwigsburg , Rems-Murr district and Hohenlohe district in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ). They are named after the city of Löwenstein .

geography

location

The Löwensteiner Berge represent the natural spatial unit 108.1 of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains in the Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land according to the structure of the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany by Meynen / Schmithüsen (1953–1962) . They mostly belong to the Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park .

The wooded mountain landscape is around 40 km north-northeast of Stuttgart and around 20 km east- south- east of Heilbronn between the Hohenlohe plain in the north, the Mainhardt forest in the north-east, the Murrhardt forest in the south-east, the Backnanger Bay in the south and the Neckar basin in the west.

The Heilbronn mountains and the Sulmer mountains continue the Löwenstein mountains to the northwest and extend with the southern Heilbronn mountains to Weinsberg and Heilbronn and with the northern Sulmer mountains via Bretzfeld , Eberstadt , Langenbrettach , Erlenbach to Neckarsulm .

On the northern edge of the ridge are the places Löwenstein and Obersulm , in the east Wüstenrot and Spiegelberg , in the south Sulzbach an der Murr , Oppenweiler , Backnang and Aspach , on the western edge Oberstenfeld , Beilstein , Abstatt , Untergruppenbach and Lehrensteinsfeld .

To the south, west and north, mighty Keuperschicht step edges clearly mark the border lines to the Backnang Bay, the Neckar Basin and the Hohenlohe Plain. The Murr valley between Sulzbach and Oppenweiler separates the Löwenstein mountains from the Murrhardt forest. The border to the neighboring Mainhardter Wald area to the east is not obvious in the terrain, it runs roughly from north to south, first up the valley of the Gabelbach brook that runs to Brettach , then over the Chausseehaus residential area on federal road 39 to the watershed of the ridge between Lauter in the west and Fischbach in the east, which she subsequently follows.

There are only a few, small settlements in the sparsely populated Löwenstein Mountains themselves.

mountains

The highest elevation of the Löwenstein Mountains is the wooded Raitelberg west of Wüstenrot at 561.1  m , and a little to the north of this "mountain" is the Stangenberg, which is just as high at 561.1  m . The also wooded Horkenberg between Löwenstein and Wüstenrot is quite high at 549.4  m . The Stocksberg ( 539.7  m ), which belongs to Beilstein and Löwenstein, as well as the Juxkopf ( 533.2  m ) near Spiegelberg with the Juxkopfturm offer a wide view. To the west lies the 372.8  m high Schweinsberg in the Heilbronn forest area belonging to Heilbronn ; on this stand the Schweinsberg tower , the Heilbronn telecommunications tower and the Schweinsberg elevated reservoir for the Lake Constance water supply .

In the south, already in the transition area to the Mainhardt Forest, wooded Black Jura peaks between Lauter- and Fischbachtal reach heights of up to 566.6  m (Steinberg south of Wüstenrot).

Flowing waters

The following rivers and larger streams drain the Löwenstein Mountains or are receiving waters at their edge.

  • The Murr rises not far from Murrhardt in the Murrhardt Forest, flows mainly westward via Murrhardt and Backnang to Marbach, where it flows into the Neckar . It touches the Löwenstein Mountains on part of its course in their southeast.
    • The "Spiegelberger" Lauter rises near Löwenstein-Hirrweiler, flows over Spiegelberg to the southeast and flows into the Murr near Sulzbach .
    • The Klöpferbach rises north of Rietenau, flows south via Aspach and flows into the Murr at Backnang-Unterschöntal .
    • The desert stream rises near Kleinaspach, mostly flows southwards and flows into the Murr between Burgstetten-Burgstall and Backnang .
    • The Bottwar rises near Prevorst , flows southwest via Großbottwar to Steinheim an der Murr, where it flows into the Murr .
  • The Schozach rises near Löwenstein, initially flows southwest via Abstatt to Ilsfeld and then northwest via Talheim to Heilbronn-Sontheim, where it flows into the Neckar .
  • The Sulm has its source at Löwenstein, flows through the Weinsberger Tal northwest and flows into the Neckar at Neckarsulm .

geology

Geologically, the Löwenstein Mountains belong to the Germanic Triassic of the Middle Ages and can be assigned to the Keuper, i.e. they were formed about 220 million years ago. The highest elevations are isolated Black Jura hilltops that the Knoll marl rest.

There are numerous outcrops , rock formations and tunnels in the Löwenstein Mountains , some of which are explained by geological nature trails :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

literature

  • Thomas Huth and Baldur Junker: Geotourist map of Baden-Württemberg 1: 200 000 north. Explanations. Regional Council Freiburg, State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2005.

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