Bottenhorn plateaus

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View of Bottenhorn in a slight hollow (485 m upwards) on the Bottenhorn plateau. In the background the 609 m high fishing castle .

The Bottenhorn plateaus are one to 609  m above sea level. NN high high plateau , mostly located in the far west of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district , and at the same time a natural area (320.01) within the Gladenbacher Bergland (320), which is part of the Westerwald (32 ) and whose center (located slightly to the north) - analogous to Hohen within the "Actual" Westerwald - represent. The Bottenhorn plateaus also include parts of the Gladenbacher Bergland, which are commonly included in the Scheldt Forest - namely also a natural area there - especially the highest point, Angelburg .

View from the south-east over the plateaus

The Bottenhorn plateaus are land surfaces that were created in the Tertiary , when the mountains leveled themselves. They have been preserved to this day and are therefore one of the oldest land surfaces in the Rhenish Slate Mountains.

In the Middle Ages, important long-distance routes that crossed at Angelburg ran across the plateau, namely the formerly important long-distance trade route from Leipzig via Cologne to Brabant (“ Brabanter Strasse ”), the “Herborner Hohe Strasse”, the Westfalenweg and the one running northwards to the east "Heerstrasse".

It is named after the district of Bottenhorn in the Bad Endbach community

Limits

In the north east the Bottenhorn plateaus meet the valley of the Dautphe , which is part of the Upper Lahn Valley (320.2) , in the extreme east they are separated from the Damshaeuser peaks (320.10) by the route of the B 453 , while the south west to the natural area Salzbödetal (320.12) flattens out.

In the south, the upper reaches of the salt flats , which is already part of the southern neighbor Zollbuche (320.03), forms the border, to the west of this is the Siegbach border, which drains to the Aar and thus to the Dill , for a few km , while in the southwest the watershed between Lahn and Dill, for example along the state road 3043 from Eiershausen to Hirzenhain-Bahnhof, the Bottenhorn plateaus are separated from the "actual" Schelder Forest (320.02).

In the extreme west, the Bottenhorn plateaus merge into the Obere Dilltal (with Dietzhölzetal , 321.1 ) , and in a northerly direction into the Breidenbacher Grund (320.00), which also extends into the plateaus around the lower reaches of the Perf tributary Gansbach via a lane .

Rivers

The main watershed of the Bottenhoher plateau, that between the Perf, which drains the north (as well as the Dautphe , which occupies smaller parts ), and the salt flats which drains the south to the east , runs eastward from the Angelburg to the Daubhaus , describing a clear arc in a southerly direction, which is why the catchment area the upper perf occupies the greater part of the natural space.

In a clockwise direction, starting in the northwest, the northern part of the plateau is drained by the Hörle , the Gansbach , their common receiving water Perf and finally the Dautphe to the upper Lahn, which flows eastwards north of the natural area . The Gansbach and Perf flow into the Breidenbacher Grund , while the Dautphe valley immediately below the course of the source already represents a side valley of the Upper Lahn valley .

In contrast, the eastern half of the south drains eastwards towards Marburg-Gießener Lahntal , in which the Lahn already flows southwards. The Allna , which rises at the eastern seam of the Damshausen peaks , has only a minimal share of this ; almost the entire area is drained by shorter streams to the south, which are taken up by the salt flats. The latter rises on the central southern edge and finally reaches the Lahn over the hill country of the Salzbödetal .

The central south, immediately east and south-east of the Angelburg, drains via Siegbach and finally Aar to Dill .

The southwest border of the natural area runs more or less over the watershed of the Gansbach to the Scheldt , which flows over the Schelder forest to the southwest of the Dill.

The north-west of the plateau is finally flanked by the B 253 , the south-west of which follows the Simmersbach (via Dietzhölze to the Dill) and the north-east of the Diete (to Perf).

places

In addition to the eponymous, with over 485 m above sea level. NN in the district of the second highest located Bad Endbacher district of Bottenhorn are also the districts of Hülshof (495 m above sea level) and Dernbach on the plateaus, Wommelshausen and Schlierbach on the southern border. From the district of Gladenbach , Rachelshausen lies just inside and Römershausen just outside it in the southeast , while Holzhausen am Hünstein (municipality of Dautphetal ) lies exactly on the border in the north-east .

The only part of the municipality of Steffenberg is Steinperf in the eastern north and Lixfeld is the only part of the Angelburg municipality in the west . The Eschenburg district of Hirzenhain ( Lahn-Dill district ) lies even further to the west than at 530 m the highest point on the plateau. Wallenfels and Tringenstein (on the southern border), parts of the municipality of Siegbach , also belong to the same district .

Daubhaus (552 m, left of center) and Allberg (528 m) on the far eastern edge of the Bottenhorn plateau. In the foreground the Gladenbach district of Runzhausen

mountains

As is typical for a high plateau, the landscape of the Bottenhorn plateau is comparatively poor in relief, but clearly dominates the immediate surroundings. In particular, the greatest height differences are found on the outskirts.

Well-known surveys are sorted by height, u. a .:

  • Angelburg (609 m, east of Hirzenhain (train station))
    • Schmittgrund (591 m, Angelburg offshoot in the extreme south)
  • Mattenberg (578 m, north west, east of Simmersbach )
  • Würgeloh (564 m, southeast of Wallenfels , northwest of Schlierbach )
  • Daubhaus (552 m, extreme east, north of Rachelshausen )
    • Scheid (538.9 m, 1 km east of Bottenhorn )
      • Allberg (528 m, north of the Daubhaus)
  • Stocksol (549 m, east of Lixfeld and west of Steinperf)
  • Schloßberg (a good 540 m, east of Steinperf)
    • Bolzeberg (520 m, northeast of the Schlossberg at the interface to the Dautphetal)
  • Hilsberg (527 m)
  • Iron Heads (498 m, south of Hommertshausen )

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