Erzgebirge foothills

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Frankenstein in the Erzgebirge foothills

A strip of landscape in Saxony that stretches north of the Ore Mountains is called the Erzgebirge foreland. It is mainly located in the district of Zwickau , the city of Chemnitz , in the district of central Saxony and south of Dresden . It reaches a height of 484 m ( Langenberger Höhe ) west of Chemnitz .

Natural structure

Following up to the 1990s amortized division of natural areas under the system of Handbook of natural physical Germany the former Federal Institute for Regional Studies (often quoted by Meynen ), this unit was called Erzgebirgsvorland, in turn, within the Greater Region North German lowland the Lößbörden was attributed . Then a distinction was made (main units according to Meynen , or in brackets according to BfN ):

  • 45 (part of D19) Erzgebirge foothills
    • 450 Central Saxon loess loam hill country (northeast of Chemnitz , part of the natural area (in the Saxon sense) Mulde loess hill country )
    • 451 Ore Mountains Basin
    • 452 Oberes Pleißeland (west, around Crimmitschau; according to today's categorization, part of the Erzgebirge basin)

The working group “Natural Balance and Territorial Character” of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, which was concerned with the development of a basis for the regional development planning of the Free State of Saxony until 2001 , partially reorganized this. After this largely taken over by the state authorities later outline the Erzgebirge Basin and the Upper Pleissenland are now the natural area Ore Mountain Basin attributed, while the term Erzgebirgsvorland is no longer needed here.

To the northeast of Chemnitz, a narrow strip of the Mulde- Loesshügelland extends between the Elbe valley and the Eastern Ore Mountains .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the interactive map of the Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV, Dresden. Map of landscape structure in accordance with the State Development Plan 2013 of the Saxon Ministry of the Interior
  2. ↑ Map of the natural areas in Saxony ( Memento from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at www.umwelt.sachsen.de (PDF, 859 kB)