Biening

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Biening
height 221.9  m above sea level NHN
location at Geismar ; Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , Hessen ( Germany )
Mountains West Hessian mountainous region
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '11 "  N , 9 ° 14' 22"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '11 "  N , 9 ° 14' 22"  E
Biening (Hesse)
Biening
particularities Geismar desert

The Biening is an unforested, intensively agriculturally used 221.9  m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the Elbergrund , part of the Ostwaldecker peripheral depressions . It is located near Geismar in the Schwalm-Eder district of Hesse .

geography

location

The Biening is located southwest of Geismar and northeast of Ungedanken on the other side of the Eder , both districts of Fritzlar. It falls to the north and east into the valley of the Elbe, which flows into the Eder south of the elevation. Beyond the Elbe rises the Eckerich ( 266  m ) in the east and the Büraberg ( 274.9  m ) beyond the Eder in the south . Between these two elevations is the Porta Hassiaca , through which the Eder flows from the Wildunger Senke into the Fritzlarer Ederflur and thus into the Wabern plain. The Geismar desert is located close to the eastern foot sloping towards the Elbe tributary .

Natural allocation

The Biening belongs to the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34), in the main unit Ostwaldecker Randsenken (341) and in the subunit Naumburger Senken und Ridge (341.4) to the Elbergrund (341.41) and is located near its southern end. In the same subunit, the landscape leads east into the natural area Elberberger Heights (341.42), and it drops approximately to the southwest into the east end of the natural area Wegaer Ederaue (341.51). Between the Elbergrund and the Wegaer Ederaue , in the north-west, there is the Alter Wald nature area (340 2 .6), which in the main unit Waldecker Tafel (340) belongs to the subunit Waldecker Wald (340 2 ).

Protected areas

Apart from lower regions of eastern and southern slopes of Biening rich parts of the protected landscape Auenverbund Eder ( CDDA , reported in 1993; -No 378,400th 45,05,85  square kilometers in size). The Schlämmteiche nature reserve near Geismar (CDDA no. 165399; 1985; 27.27  ha ), the fauna-flora-habitat area Untere Eder (FFH-No. 4821-305; 16.659 km²) extends to the lower areas of the southern slope the Ederaue bird sanctuary (VSG no. 4822-402; 30.9557 km²).

Geismar desert

Near the east foot of Biening is above the same, the Wüstung Geismar ( ), which has been exposed in the 1970s. The former settlement probably already existed around 200  BC. BC and was inhabited in several phases until the Middle Ages. This archaeological proof of the sedentariness of the Chatti during the time of the Great Migration .

Traffic and walking

North to northeast past the Biening, coming from the Fritzlar district of Züschen in the northwest, through the valley of the Elbe and through Geismar, the state road  3214, which then continues eastward to federal highway 450 and ends shortly afterwards northeast of Fritzlar at the L 3150. The L 3383, coming from the Edertal district of Wellen , which reaches the L 3214 between Geismar in the west and Fritzlar in the east , leads mainly eastwards past the Biening . The Biening can be hiked on dirt roads.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  3. ^ Geismar (desert), Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. A. Thiedmann: The settlement of Geismar near Fritzlar. Excavations and research in the prehistoric and early historical settlement in the Schwalm-Eder district. (Archaeological Monuments in Hesse, No. 2.), State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden, 1978, 2nd completely revised edition 2000, ISBN 3-89822-002-8