Castroper plate

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The Castroper Platte is a loess plate that forms a natural area in the south of the Westphalian Bay and in the eastern Ruhr area, in the triangle of Bochum , Herne and Castrop . It consists mainly of the Castroper Heights between the natural elevations reaching a good 130 m and 151 m high at the Schwerin dump . Between this and the southeastern neighboring Stockumer Höhe , the Martener Flachwellenland near Dortmund-Marten and, to the southwest of it, the Langendreerer Senke near Bochum-Langendreer , which geologically and naturally also belong to the Castroper Platte.

The Gysenberg in the east of Hernes is one of the most famous of the Castrop heights .

geology

The accumulated pre-glacial gravel comes from an older course of the Ruhr . At the time of the fall of the Tertiary - Diluvium, it turned north near Witten . At Crengeldanz , terminal moraines in the Langendreerer depression filled it up. The Ruhr gravel is covered with upper chalk sediments.

Natural allocation

See section in the article on the main unit Westenhellweg .

Waters

Today the Castroper Höhe forms a watershed between the Ruhr and the Emscher . In it arise among others: the Ostbach , the Landwehrbach , the Fischergraben , the Mühlenbach , the Sodinger Bach , the Storchgraben , the Börniger Bach , the Rossbach , the Hemker Bach , the Langelohbach and the Westbach .

Others

In Bochum, the Westfälische Hellweg branched off to the northeast via the Bongardstrasse and the Große Beckstrasse to cross the Castroper plateau as a high route , still known today as "Castroper Hellweg", thus bypassing the Oelbach valley to the north. During construction work in the Bongardstrasse were corduroy roads discovered.

One of the sights is the Langeloh nature trail, which opens up wet meadows where, among other things, the giant horsetail grows. The great relatives of this plant, the genus of the kalamites , were found in the forests of the Carboniferous .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm von Kürten: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 95/96 Kleve / Wesel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1977. →  Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  2. ^ Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 97 Münster. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  3. ^ Karlheinz Paffen, Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 108/109 Düsseldorf / Erkelenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 7.1 MB)
  4. ↑ a b Martin Bürgener: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 110 Arnsberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. →  Online map (PDF; 6.1 MB)
  5. ↑ Fabian Otto: Interpretative consideration of the topographic map 1 to 50000, sheet L 4508 Essen. 2004, page 7 [1]
  6. ^ Wilhelm Müller-Wille : Floor sculpture and natural spaces in Westphalia. 1966, p. 176 [2]
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Viehweger: District excursion of the Herner Netz to Sodingen in the "Revier der Wachstelzen". [3]
  8. ^ Spieker: Articles and reports on regional studies. Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional and Folklore Studies. Geographical Commission. Issues 15–20, 1967, page 43 [4]
  9. ↑ Langeloh nature trail. [5] (PDF; 4.7 MB)

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 40.8 "  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 46.8"  E