Dahlener Heide

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In the Dahlener Heide at the hospital hut

The large forest area between Dahlen and Belgern on the Elbe is called Dahlener Heide . The small brook named Dahle , which gave the city of Dahlen its name, has its source in the heather .

Natural space

geomorphology

Hunter oak
Memorial stone for Brehm's rest near Schmannewitz
Dead maid
Murder Pond

The approximately 180 km² large Dahlener Heide is characterized in particular by the Dahlen terminal moraine , a complex of upset and clod moraines . In its central part between the localities of Ochsensaal and Bockwitz, this is characterized by an extraordinarily diverse, fresh relief, which has height differences of up to 55 m (on the Hunsrück ) in a narrow space and, in addition to flatter slopes, inclines of up to 25 °. The hilly area belongs to a west-east trending strip in which the old moraine plates of northern Saxony are strongly compressed and scaled and individual tertiary clods are stored on the surface. In the western part, under the Dahlen terminal moraine, the gravel body of the early Cold Age river course of the Freiberg Mulde, which is only slightly affected by the compression, lies .

The Dahlen terminal moraine is divided into about ten ridges which, rising up to 217 m, form an arch open to the north. In the Schildau area, this wall tapers to a marginal moraine, which heaped up the glacier tongue towards the Schildau Porphyry Mountain. After the glacial meltwater compression flattened the back again, their material and poured gravel cone and displaced Sander on. Inner and post-glacial erosion resulted in many hollow forms between the ridges, especially in the less resistant clay / silt and brown coal layers .

For decades, the Dahlen terminal moraine was assigned to the Saale Glaciation . Due to the Holstein age of the sediments found on the southern edge near Börln , the Dahlen terminal moraine must have formed during the 2nd inland ice advance in the Elster Glaciation .

ground

The moraines contain only small amounts of boulder clay and block packings, but mainly consist of sands in which up to 30–60 m thick clods of tertiary clay, silt, fine sand and lignite as well as early Pleistocene gravels are pressed.

The soils of the cohesive wooded Dahlen Heath in the interior are predominantly brown soils , to which gleye , pseudogleye and on the southern edge also parabrown soils are found on rare loam or clay locations or in the stream valleys .

Waters

Waldbad Schmannewitz

At such special locations you can also find more than 50 small ponds, most of them in the valley of the Heidedorf Reudnitz. The “murder pond” sounds particularly bloodthirsty. For swimming enthusiasts, the forest pool in Schmannewitz invites, as well as the swimming pond in Bucha in free use.

Attractions

Tourist attractions are “ Brehms Ruhe”, “Tote Maid”, “Tobacco Pine”, “ Imhoffstein ”, “Jägereiche” and “Wittes Steinbruch”.

Interesting places are Dahlen , Schildau and Schmannewitz .

literature

  • Peter Haferstroh (Ed.): The Dahlener Heide. Forays into cultural history . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-9803465-6-0 .
  • SLUB Dresden: Dahlener Heide [4]

Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Scholz: Studies on the morphology of the Dahlener Heide. A contribution to the knowledge of the North Saxon old moraine landscape. In: Scientific journal of the University of Leipzig, mathematical and natural science series. Volume 7, Issue 2/3. Leipzig 1958. pp. 265-290.
  2. Lothar Eissmann: When the Freiberger Mulde flowed over Oschatz. In: The panorama. Monthly for culture and homeland. Home between the Elbe and Mulde. Volume 13, Issue 9. Wurzen 1966. pp. 419–423.
  3. ^ Rolf Grosse, Joachim Fischer: On the age and course of the early Cold Age rivers in the Leipzig lowland bay and the adjacent area. In: Mauritiana. Volume 12, Issue 2. Altenburg 1989. pp. 205-224.
  4. ^ Lothar Eissmann: Quaternary and older subsoil of the Dahlen lowland bay in northern Saxony. In: Reports of the geological society in the GDR. Special issue 2. Berlin 1964. pp. 3–34.
  5. Klaus Erd: Pollen analyzes from the Holstein interglacials from Börln and Wildschütz in northern Saxony. In: Brandenburg Geoscientific Contributions. No. 2, Issue 1. Kleinmachnow 1995. pp. 69-77. [1]
  6. ^ Roland Fuhrmann: Ostracodes from the Holstein interglacial basins Wildschütz and Dahlen (Saxony). In: Journal of Geological Sciences. Volume 19, Issue 3. Berlin 1991. pp. 269-288. [2]
  7. Roland Fuhrmann, Dieter Handel: Warm-time Holstein sediments near Wildschütz and Dahlen (Saxony) and the age of the Dahlen terminal moraine. In: Journal of Geological Sciences. Volume 19, Issue 3. Berlin 1991. pp. 261-268. [3]
  8. ^ Lothar Eissmann, Ansgar Müller: commemorative excursion 150 years of inland theory in Saxony. River terraces, terminal moraines and glacier cuts in northwest Saxony (excursion B3). In: Altenburger scientific research. Issue 7 (DEUQUA conference in Leipzig 1994). Altenburg 1994. pp. 378-430.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 7 ″  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 33.5 ″  E