Falkensteiner Vorwald

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With Falkensteiner Vorwald the flachwelligere, westernmost part of the Bavarian Forest in the northern Lower Bavaria and the southern Upper Palatinate referred, Bavaria.

geography

location

The Falkensteiner Vorwald with the eponymous market Falkenstein in the center extends in the south to directly in front of the Danube with Deggendorf in the extreme south-east, Straubing a little south and Regensburg immediately south-west. Its west and western north extends, depending on the area, roughly to the Regen valley , in the extreme northwest even well beyond it to Maxhütte-Haidhof , to Nittenau and in the north to Roding .

It connects directly to the west-north-west of the Upper Bavarian Forest . To the south-west it borders on the north-west of the rain basin , to the south-east on the Upper Palatinate hill country , to the east on the Middle Franconian Alb and to the north on the Dungau .

geomorphology

The Falkensteiner Vorwald has an unspectacular, humped relief. Of the few mountains that exceed 700  m , the Gallner ( 709  m ) is the most spectacular. It is located immediately west of the Elisabethszeller Mountains in the west of the Upper Bavarian Forest and is still characterized by its relief. Even higher, but much less prominent, are a nameless hill northwest of Zinzenzell with 720  m and one southeast of Wiesenfelden with 740  m . In the south near the Danube, in the Waxenberger Forest , the Kobelberg ( 703  m ) barely reaches this height threshold.

Between Roding and Wiesent , the Falkensteiner Vorwald is divided centrally by an only slightly deepened depression that follows the south-south-west course of the Regen near Roding. In the north it is used by the Perlbach and in the south by the Wiesent . To the west of this depression, the Hadriwa is the highest elevation at 677  m . All the mountains mentioned so far, except for the Gallner, are located around the Falkenstein market, which gives it its name .

The western part of the forest flows in the south and flows into the Jura rocks of the Franconian Alb on this side of the rain; Regenstauf is located directly on the rock boundary . Below Nittenau , the rain breaks impressively through the forest in a 90 ° knee and various smaller loops. The “main mountain” of this part of the landscape, which is more moving in relief, is the Jugenberg ( 611  m ) immediately southwest of Nittenau, but the slopes of the 564  m high Gailenberg directly in the rain knee are more spectacular . On the right, the western side of the rain reached Schwarzenberg , just east of Maxhütte-Haidhof still 538  m .

In the north of the western part of the Falkensteiner Vorwald there is a second, somewhat less striking rain breakthrough valley: The Reichenbacher Regental begins directly at the rain bend below Rodings, runs through Walderbach and ends immediately below Reichenbach . In contrast, the wider Regental section between the two breakthroughs from Treidling to the core town of Nittenau, just like the Rodinger Regental, belongs to the neighboring Upper Palatinate hill country , while the valley section at Cham is part of the Cham-Further Senke .

Natural structure

The Falkensteiner Vorwald was defined, described and limited in the work of the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany from 1953 to 1961 as the so-called main natural spatial unit of the Greater Region 3rd order Upper Palatinate-Bavarian Forest . A refinement of the structure took place on the single sheets 1: 200,000 sheet 174 Straubing (1967), sheet 165/166 Cham (1973) and sheet 164 Regensburg (1981), resulting in the following sub-natural areas:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  2. ^ Dietrich-Jürgen Manske: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 164 Regensburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1981. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  3. ↑ Klaus Müller-Hohenstein: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 165/166 Cham. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. →  Online map (PDF; 4.4 MB)
  4. ^ Willi Czajka , Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 174 Straubing. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  5. ↑ Name on sheet 165 Cham : Eastern Falkensteiner Forest . On sheet 174 Straubing , the Falkenfelser Land , which is only recorded at the edge (406.20), is not further subdivided.
  6. ↑ On sheet 165/166 Cham the unit is called 406.5 Southwestern Falkensteiner Forest ; however, the western part was only broken down on the later sheet 164 Regensburg , which assigned further numbers (sub-units of 406.7, 406.8 and 406.9) to the extreme northwest of the Falkensteiner Vorwald.

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