Eisenberg basin
| Eisenberg basin | |||
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| surface | 33.4 km² | ||
| Systematics according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | ||
| Greater region 2nd order | 20–23 → Upper Rhine lowlands |
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| Main unit group | 22 → Northern Upper Rhine Lowland |
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| 4th order region (main unit) |
227 → Rhenish Hessian table and hill country |
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| Natural space |
227.6 → Eisenberger Basin |
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| Natural area characteristics | |||
| Landscape type | Basin landscape | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 33 '36 " N , 8 ° 5' 43.8" E | ||
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| circle | Donnersbergkreis , Bad Dürkheim district | ||
| state | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
The Eisenberger Becken is a basin on the edge of the Rheinhessen table and hill country to the Palatinate Forest in the Palatinate ( Donnersbergkreis and Landkreis Bad Dürkheim ), in the west of which the city of Eisenberg is located. It can also be seen as a marginal basin and part of the Alzeyer hill country , to which it does not belong according to the natural spatial structure, but with which it is summarized by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , for example .
Limits
The basin is sealed off to the north and east by the southernmost parts of the Alzeyer Hügelland , the Göllheimer Hügelland (up to 317.1 m ) and the Grünstadter Berg (up to 336.7 m ), between which only the Eisbach valley has a narrow corridor to the Upper Rhine Plain creates. To the west, the stump forest, which can be reached up to a good 350 m , is in close proximity .
In the south, the basin is the southern slopes of the Little Thunder Mountain (at Nackterwäldchen: 329.1 m ) and its northwestern extension of Kerzenheim limited, on the sports field Kerzenheim 335.7 m achieved and go west without significant notch in the stump forest. Behind the southern slope flow the Rothbach (75 m lower than the 300 m away sports field) and, east of its mouth, the Eckbach , which is overlooked by 115 m from the Kleiner Donnersberg summit 600 m away; behind it rises the Leininger spur, which is somewhat higher than the stump forest .
Localities
The following places are in the Eisenberg Basin or on the slope of its edge heights (clockwise, starting in the west):
- Eisenberg (without Steinborn and Stauf ); west
- Candle home ; Northwest
- Lautersheim ; hillside location in the north
- Quirnheim ; sloping outskirts in the northeast
- Ebertsheim ; north east
- Tiefenthal ; southeast
- the hamlets of Nackterhof and Nackterwäldchen , municipality of Neuleiningen , on the edge of the hillside in the extreme southeast
- Candle home on the edge of the hillside in the extreme southwest
- Hettenleidelheim in the southwest
Geology, soils and mining
The Eisenberg Basin consists mainly of a sunken clod of the upper Buntsandstein , which geologically belongs to the Palatinate Forest . However, there are tertiary and quaternary rocks in most places .
Immediately red sandstone is only in the southern part, east of Hettenleidelheim , to the northeast along the Seltenbach and, from Ebertsheim , along the Eisbach up to its entry into the Rhine plain near Grünstadt. In addition, on the ridge of the Kleiner Donnersberg, which is extended to the west and which is still part of the basin, there are red sandstone and locally also shell limestone . In contrast, the east of the ridge at Nackterhof , like other higher elevations, is covered with loess . In the area around Eisenberg there are fluvial Tertiary rocks with sand, gravel, silt, clay and kaolin.
Iron ore deposits on the western edge paved the way for the early construction of ironworks . In the inner basin sticky sands and refractory clays were mined, which meanwhile z. Some of them have developed interesting secondary landscapes with ponds and pools, swamps and pioneer forests; arable farming dominates outside the mining areas.
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on the left the stump forest in the far north of the Palatinate Forest with the domed Hohen Bühl (far left) in front of the Diemersteiner forest ;
before the stump forest left Wattenheim , then Tiefenthal before the A 6 disappearing into the stump forest and Hettenleidelheim ; half left Eisenberg and Kerzenheim , right of the Donnersberg then the Göllheimer Hügelland with the Esper (309 m, first wind turbines, half right) and Lautersheim (right) as a peripheral town
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natural area table with area information from the State Office for the Environment, Water Management and Trade Inspectorate Rhineland-Palatinate (PDF; 250 kB)
- ↑ a b c Harald Uhlig: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 150 Mainz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1964. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ Landscape profile Alzeyer Hügelland of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information ) (with Eisenberg Basin, but without the Middle Pfrim Valley)
- ↑ a b Landscape profile of the landscape area 227.6 Eisenberg Basin of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
- ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Landscape profile of the landscape area 227.6 of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
- ↑ GeoViewer of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials ( information )