Eastern Erzgebirge foreland
The Eastern Ore Mountains Foreland is one of the natural areas in Saxony and is located in the district of Saxon Switzerland- Eastern Ore Mountains .
The relatively narrow area, which extends from northwest to southeast, leads morphologically from the Osterzgebirge to the Dresden Elbe valley widening and is cut up by several transverse valleys in which various Erzgebirge rivers, for example the Weißeritz, drain to the Elbe .
Loess-covered slopes and plateaus in the northwest, sediments from the Rotliegend of the Freital-Kreischa basin and the Elbe valley slate mountains are characteristic of the natural area .
The most distinctive area of the Eastern Ore Mountains foothills is the Elbe Valley Slate Mountains. It consists mainly of Paleozoic rocks (mostly slate ). It represents a narrowing between the Lusatian massif and the Eastern Ore Mountains. The steep, often heavily folded rock formations are responsible for small-area, often strip-shaped arranged changes of soil. The soils differ in terms of soil skeleton , depth , grain size , trophy and water balance. Plateaus and bars predominate in the relief.
The potential natural vegetation is a transition from wood bedstraw -Hainbuchen-oak forest and high colliner Luzulo -Eichen-Buchenwald.