Altenberger back

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Altenberger back
Highest peak Paschhügel ( 119  m above sea  level )
location Steinfurt district and the city of Münster , Münsterland , North Rhine-Westphalia
part of Burgsteinfurter Land
in the Kernmünsterland
Classification according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Altenberger Back (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Altenberger back
Coordinates 52 ° 3 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E
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The Altenberger ridge , also called Altenberger heights or Altenberger Höhenrück , is a flat undulating, up to 119  m above sea level. NN high ridge in the northeast of the Münsterland . It stretches for about 28 km from Münster-Nienberge to the northeast in the Steinfurt district via the eponymous municipality of Altenberge to beyond Burgsteinfurt . He is accompanied by the federal highway 54 and the Münster – Enschede railway line .

The Altenberger Ridge runs north-east parallel to the Schöppinger Ridge , in the southeast part to the Baumberge , from which it is separated by the Steinfurter Aa and in the southeast by the Münstersche Aa . Even its height profile is similar to that of the two significantly higher parallel heights, especially in the fact that the northeast flank is mostly significantly steeper than the southwest slope.

Naturally , all three mountain ranges mentioned belong to the Burgsteinfurter Land of the main unit Kernmünsterland .

course

The very narrow Altenberger Ridge is divided into the "actual" Altenberger Ridge in the southeast half, which reaches 119  m in height at the Paschhügel in Altenberge , then a flat undulating area to the northwest to Borghorst and finally the Buchenberg, which is 111  m high between Borghorst and Burgsteinfurt is.

From northwest to southeast follow one another (elevations and ridges indented) - with height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NN):

Natural allocation

The Altenberger Ridge is naturally allocated as follows:

geology

The Altenberger Ridge was particularly shaped by two geological ages: the chalk and the quaternary .

In the Cretaceous period, the entire Münsterland lay at the bottom of a sea, but this was a coastal body of water that was bounded in the south by today's Sauerland . A base for the back was created by means of shell and ammonite deposits , the housing of which was made of lime. It was not until the Miocene (around 14 million years ago) that the sea retreated.

These chalk deposits can hardly be found in the range of hills, but form the foundation and the beginning of the range of hills.

The ice ages of the Quaternary, especially the ice age 18,000 years ago, are of great importance for the formation of the range of hills . The ridge became an end moraine of the glacier masses .

Today's Altenberger Ridge and the south-west parallel mountain ranges of the Burgsteinfurter Land were created by erosion .

Rivers

From Burgsteinfurt to Altenberge , a section of the IJsselmeer - Ems -Wasserscheide runs over the ridge of the Altenberger Ridge , which migrates from Altenberge to the southwest towards Baumberge. Accordingly, about two thirds of the ridge to the Ems, the north and the northern part of the southwest slope drain over the Steinfurter Aa to the Vechte .

Protected areas

On the Altenberger Ridge or around it are three landscape and 2 nature reserves (sorted from northwest to southeast, area and year of first designation in brackets):

  • City of Steinfurt
    • LSG- Bagno, Buchenberg (L22) (679.91 ha; 1969)
      • NSG Am Bagno - Buchenberg (489.48 ha; 1994) - see Buchenberg
  • Community Nordwalde
    • no protected area designated
  • Community Altenberge
    • LSG- Altenberger Hoehenücken (751.55; 1969), in two parts, separated by the core location
  • City of Munster
    • LSG- Altenberger Ridge (1009.84 ha; 1998)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GeoServer NRW, District Government Cologne, Department GEObasis NRW
  2. ↑ a b Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 83/84 - Osnabrück / Bentheim (Sofie Meisel 1961; middle of sheet) and sheet 97 - Münster (Sofie Meisel 1960; west) - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg → maps
  3. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  4. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

Web links

  • Natural area maps from the single sheets 1: 200.000 of the Federal Institute for Regional Studies - the Altenberger ridge has the number "541.05" on sheets 83/84 - Osnabrück / Bentheim (middle of the sheet) and 97 - Münster (west)

literature

  • Wilhelm Müller-Wille . Floor sculpture and natural spaces in Westphalia. Fixed band. 1966. Articles and reports on regional studies. Published by the Geographical Commission Westphalia. P. 172