Fulda Valley

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The Fuldaer Senke is a valley basin and a natural spatial main unit of the East Hessian mountainous region in East Hesse , Germany . It is part of the East Hessian mountains .

The Fuldaer Senke consists of the central Fulda basin around the eponymous city of Fulda on the rivers Fulda and Haune , the Großenlüder-Lauterbacher Graben on the lower reaches of Lüder and Lauter in the north-west and the Fliedetal along the Fliede in the south-west.

Natural structure

The Fulda valley is structured as follows:

Fliedetal

The Fliedetal along the Fulda tributary Fliede is the southwest part of the Fulda depression. In turn, it is divided into the Fliedener basin and the narrower Kerzeller Fliedetal that adjoins it to the northeast and connects the Fliedener with the → Fulda basin .

Lilac basin

The main eastern part of the eponymous municipality of Flieden , the south of the municipality of Neuhof and the extreme west of the municipality of Kalbach , in which more than half of the municipality's residents live - all in the district of Fulda, are located in the Fliedener Basin .

Geographically, the basin is bounded by the Gieseler Forest (350.6) in the northwest and west, the ridge (353.0) in the south and the western Rhön foreland (353.1) in the east. The Gieseler Forest is the easternmost part of the Lower Vogelsberg (main unit 350), while the ridge and western Rhön foreland are assigned to the Kuppenrhön (main unit 353).

In the Flieden Basin, the Fliede collects all important source and tributaries ( see here ) up to the Kemmete (15.8 km, from the left).

Kerzeller Fliedetal

The narrow Kerzeller Fliedetal , named after the village of Kerzell (municipality of Eichenzell ), accompanies the middle course of the Fliede from the → Fliedener basin to the → Fulda basin , which connects to the northeast. It begins in the south in the middle of Neuhof , continues north-east to the eponymous village of Kerzell, to finally widen west of its mother community Eichenzell to the Fulda basin. This is where the two municipalities mentioned are located, and a very small part of the east bank is also in the district of Kalbach .

The tributaries Rehbach (8.0 km) and Döllbach (23.5 km) flow here from the right .

The Gieseler Forst lies on the east bank and the western Rhön foreland on the south-west bank (see above).

Fulda basin

In the Fulda basin near Fulda , the parallel valleys of the Fulda and Haune come together - their 66.5 km second longest tributary and their longest right, which runs east of it. On the Fulda side, it extends from Eichenzell in the south to the city of Fulda, the only regional center in East Hesse . To the east of the Haune, it extends from the west of the Dipperz community via Künzell to Petersberg - all of which belong to the Fulda district .

Enumerated clockwise, the following alternation of valleys and ridges is around the Fulda basin. They are parts of the Fuldaer Senke (main unit 352), the Untere Vogelsberg (350), the Fulda-Haune-Tafelland (355) and the Kuppenrhön (353), each belonging to the numerical prefix:

The Fulda basin extends from south to north on the Fulda side from the mouth of the Fliede (22.1 km) over that of the Giesel (11.3 km, measured over the Saurode ) to just before that of the Lüder (36.4 km) ) - which of course all approach from the left. On the Haune side, here accordingly from the right, Wanne (16.1 km) and Bieber (15.9 km) flow in.

Grossenlüder-Lauterbacher Graben

The Großenlüder-Lauterbacher Graben stretches from the → Fulda Basin near Großenlüder across the south of Bad Salzschlirf (up to this point in the Fulda district ), Wartenberg , Lauterbach and Schwalmtal to the northwest to shortly before Alsfeld (the latter Vogelsberg district ).

The ditch, which flows southeast into the Fulda basin, is bounded in a southwestern direction by the Untere Vogelsberg (main unit 350) and to the northeast by ridges of the Fulda-Haune-Tafelland (355) - the Schlitzer Land (355.1) and, further to the northwest, the Ottrauer Bergland (355.0). In the extreme northwest it narrows before the Alsfeld Mulde (343.02) opens up, which then, as its southernmost part, introduces the Schwalm and thus also the West Hessian Depression (main unit 343).

The Großenlüder-Lauterbacher Graben follows, starting from the Fulda basin, first upstream for a short section of the Lüder , then to the northwest the Lauter (27.9 km), its tributary Brenderwasser (20.4 km) and finally its tributary Maar (4th floor ) , 9 km). After having crossed the watershed between Schwalm and Fulda , the ditch finally follows the stream of Wallenrod (8.5 km) downstream to just after its confluence with the Schwalm.

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation draws the border a little differently here and lets the ditch to the northwest end east of Lauterbach; Lauterbach and Schwalmtal are located in the Lower Vogelsberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map and description in the Environmental Atlas of Hesse
  2. ↑ a b c d Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
  3. ↑ BfN - Kartendienste ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and landscape profile of the Fulda basin ( memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de

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