Brunnenwald (natural area)

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Well forest
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Main unit group 12 →
Neckar and Tauber-Gäuplatten
About main unit 128 →
building land (landscape)
5th order region 128.2 →
Brunnenwald (natural area)
Natural space 128.2 → Well forest
Geographical location
Coordinates 49 ° 19 '26.4 "  N , 9 ° 9' 48.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '26.4 "  N , 9 ° 9' 48.8"  E
Brunnenwald (Baden-Württemberg)
Well forest
Location Brunnenwald
circle Neckar-Odenwald district
state Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany

As well forest a part of is natural space land in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg referred to in whose territory the eponymous fountain forest located. This is an almost entirely wooded area, which is deeply cut up by a valley with many springs and falling towards the Neckar. In the back there are dissolved plateaus with individual covers of decalcified loess. The wells Forest has a natural spatial unit no. 128.2 of the main unit group gäu plateaus no further subdivision unit in the second decimal place on.

location

The well forest is located near the middle Neckar valley. It borders in turn in the northwest on the lowest valley of the Elz , in which the center of the city of Mosbach is located and whose upper left forest slopes from around the village of Neckarburken in the neighboring municipality of Elztal still count. In the northeast it merges into the hilly landscape around the upper valley basin of the Schefflenz tributary Sulzbach . In the east, as is ending run of the south to Jagst pulling Tiefenbach's . From the Gundelsheim valley town of Tiefenbach to the northern edge of Gundelsheim itself, the south-eastern border roughly follows the K 2045 connecting the towns. The south-western border runs from there, omitting the spur mountain Michaelsberg in the Böttinger valley loop of the Neckar that begins at Gundelsheim to the west, the upper slope of the Neckar valley from Gundelsheim via Neckarzimmern to Neckarelz .

Adjacent natural areas are the Neckarelzer valley in the southwest and northwest, the nearby Neckar valley section and the lower Elz valley , the Schefflenzgäu in the northeast, both of which are also part of the building land . Behind the short border sections, in the east on the other side of the Tiefenbach, lie the sub-area Neudenauer Hügel of the neighboring natural area Kocher-Jagst-Ebene and in the southeast the sub-area Kocherplatten and Krumme Ebene of the neighboring natural area Hohenloher and Haller Ebene .

geology

The highest Triassic layer in the catchment area is the Lettenkeuper ( Erfurt formation ) lying on its ridge between the valley incisions that extend to the southwest and south . On the heights to the left of the Elz Valley and in the stream valleys running to the Neckar, the Upper Muschelkalk lies below . Middle and Lower Muschelkalk follow only on the deeper, already outside lying valley slopes to the Elz and Neckar . In an underground mine near Neckarzimmern, gypsum was once mined from the Middle Muschelkalk. A little north of Gundelsheim there is still a quarry in the Upper Muschelkalk. A large part of the plateau is covered by loess sediment from Quaternary deposits.

Mountains and waters

The well forest is mainly drained south to south-west towards the Neckar, the largest part of it over the Anbach which flows out at Gundelsheim and its left lower tributary Brunnenbach . Further down the Neckar follow the small Steinbach under Hornberg Castle and the Luttenbach, which flows into Neckarzimmern . A few blades about the size of the Steinbach run west towards the Elz in the northwest. The already mentioned Tiefenbach zur Jagst runs on one section in the Brunnenwald, it has the largest catchment area among the streams that do not run directly to the Neckar.

description

The well forest, which is more than half wooded, extends over an altitude interval of (very roughly) 220  m above sea level. NHN up to 347  m above sea level NHN . The maximum is reached on two peaks on both sides of the upper Luttenbachtal, on which the Mosbach settlement Hardhof and the hamlet of Stockbronn von Neckarzimmern stand. Other settlement areas in the area of ​​the city of Mosbach include a Bundeswehr facility on the Talsporn between Neckar and Elz, the hamlet of Bergfeld and the Knopfhof farmstead . The Neckarzimmerner place Luttenbachtal is partly in the natural area, whose residential area Evangelisches Jugendheim stands on the left spur of the Luttenbach. Further to the south, the Böttinger Hof stands on its back between the Anbach and Steinbachtal valleys, in a cleared island in the Selbach forest the hamlet of Dornbach , both of which belong to the small town of Gundelsheim , as does the partially internal village of Tiefenbach in the Tiefenbach valley . Overall, the population is quite low.

Natural structure

The natural spatial unit Brunnenwald is the following part of the main unit building land of the main unit group Neckar- and Tauber-Gäuplatten:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park eV: Landscape maintenance concept for the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park (PFD; 1.66 MB; 62 pages). Status: November 21, 2016. Online at www.naturpark-neckartal-odenwald.de. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Ed.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  3. ↑ a b Josef Schmithüsen : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 161 Karlsruhe. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. →  Online map (PDF; 5.1 MB)
  4. ↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )

literature

  • Siegfried Kullen: Baden-Württemberg. 3rd, updated edition; Revision. Klett, Stuttgart 1989. (Klett country profiles)
  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6620 Mosbach, No. 6621 Billigheim, No. 6720 Bad Rappenau and No. 6721 Bad Friedrichshall

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