Diamond floodplain
The Diamantene Aue is a landscape between Bad Frankenhausen and Artern in the Kyffhäuserkreis in the north of Thuringia .
location
It stretches in a semicircle between the Hohe Schrecke (a ridge that extends into Saxony-Anhalt ) in the southeast, the Schmücke in the south, the Hainleite in the southwest and the Kyffhäuser in the northwest. The landscape is traversed in the southeast by the Unstrut and in the north by the Solgraben . In the east at Kalbsrieth the helmets flow into the Unstrut. The central part of the Diamantenen Aue is called Das Ried , further to the west is the Esperstedter Ried . In terms of nature, the landscape belongs to the Helme-Unstrut lowlands .
nature
The Diamantene Aue is just like the Northwest lying Goldene Aue very fertile. That is why this area has always been used heavily for agriculture, especially for growing sugar beet . The earlier existing sugar factories in Artern and Oldisleben were closed after 1990, with the latter being preserved as an industrial monument of the sugar factory Oldisleben . To the west of Artern is the Schönfelder See and south of Esperstedt there are some gravel ponds.
There are the following protected areas:
- Helme-Unstrut-Niederung bird sanctuary
- FFH area Esperstedter Ried - salt pits near Artern
traffic
The federal motorway 71 crosses the Diamantene Aue in a north-south direction from the direction of Sangerhausen, passing Artern, Reinsdorf, Bretleben and Heldrungen to the Schmücke tunnel and then on towards Schweinfurt. The Sangerhausen – Erfurt railway line runs through the Diamantene Aue with stops in Heldrungen, Bretleben, Reinsdorf and Artern. In September 2008 the railway line from Bretleben to Sondershausen was shut down, the Unstrut railway from Reinsdorf in the direction of Nebra is also currently not in operation.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E