Downhill area in the northern Main Triangle
| Downhill area in the northern Main Triangle | |||
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| Systematics according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | ||
| Greater region 1st order | Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift | ||
| Greater region 2nd order | Southwest German layer level country | ||
| Greater region 3rd order | Swabian-Franconian Gau | ||
| Main unit group | 13 → Main Franconian plates |
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| About main unit | 134 → Downhill areas in the Main Triangle |
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| 4th order region (main unit) |
134.1 → Inner Gäu high areas in the main triangle |
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| Natural space |
134.10 → River area in the northern Main Triangle |
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| Natural area characteristics | |||
| Landscape type | Gäuhochfläche | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '21.6 " N , 10 ° 7' 13.1" E | ||
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| circle | Kitzingen , Würzburg District | ||
| state | Bavaria | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Gäu high area in the northern Maindreieck is a small-scale natural spatial unit (5th order) with the order number 134.10 in the Franconian communities of Bergtheim , Dettelbach , Eisenheim , Oberpleichfeld , Prosselsheim , Rimpar , Schwanfeld , Unterpleichfeld and Waigolshausen in the districts of Kitzingen , Schweinfurt and Würzburg .
location
The plateaus in the southern Maindreieck (134.11) form a sub-unit within the main unit of Inner Gahe Plateaus in the Maindreieck (134.1). They are part of the Gäuf areas in the Main Triangle (134) and thus a natural area in the main unit group of the Mainfränkische Platten . In the north, the natural area is bounded by the Wern catchment area (134.0), which has significantly more stream valleys. The extreme northeast is occupied by the Schweinfurt Basin (136), the Main also runs here. The natural areas of the Middle Main Valley (133) begin at about the height of Schwanfeld . These are (from north to south) the Obereisenheim-Wipfelder Maintal (133.08), the Volkacher Mainschleife (133.07), the Schwarzacher valley widening (133.06) and the Kitzinger Maintal (133.05). In the south, the plateaus in the southern Main Triangle (134.11) can be found, which have a similar landscape. To the west is the Gramschatzer Forest (135.1) as part of the Wern-Lauer-Platten (135).
The Gäuf area occupies an extraordinarily large area, which distinguishes it from the otherwise rather small-scale natural units along the Main Triangle . In the north-east a narrow strip stretches into the district of Hergolshausen , in the north-west the much lower-lying municipality of Bergtheim with its districts forms the border. The natural area protrudes in the east until shortly before the waste to the main valley along the line Wipfeld , Eisenheim, Escherndorf - Köhler , Neuses am Berg , Schwarzenau . The southern boundary is formed by the districts of Dettelbach, Euerfeld and Maidbronn. The westernmost place in the natural area is Burggrumbach . The Würzburg-Bamberg railway cuts through the area.
Landscape characteristics
The natural area differs in particular from the area further south of the Main Triangle due to the rarer intersections of smaller streams (so-called blades ). The few rivers that flow into the Main formed smaller notches and are mostly waterless in summer. Here the watershed between the Volkacher and the Würzburg Main section runs along the line Opferbaum - Dipbach - Effeldorf .
The economic development of the area is well advanced and shows no differences to the plateaus further south. Today the landscape is characterized by extensive arable land, on which mainly wheat and malting barley are grown. In addition, suburban development has advanced far into the north-eastern Würzburg area. Historically, forest areas that were interspersed with permanent grassland predominated here . The potential natural vegetation (without human intervention) would produce extensive alluvial forests here , only spruce would be found along the streams .
Protected areas
In contrast to the areas along the Main, the Gäuf area hardly has any protected areas. Only in the far west are parts of the fauna-flora habitat Gramschatzer Wald . A large bird sanctuary is designated in the center of the natural area.
Geology and tectonics
The soils in the natural area are characterized by loam and loess loam soils . Due to the dry, climatic conditions, they are hardly washed out and interspersed with fine grains of sand. Individual sections are dominated by parabroun earths . A carbonate rock mixture serves as the subsurface.
See also
literature
- Karl-Albert Habbe: The natural space units on sheet 153 Bamberg 1: 200,000 - A bundle of problems and a suggested structure . In: Mitteilungen der Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft Vol. 50/51 for 2003/2004 . Erlangen 2004. pp. 55-102.
- Horst Mensching, Günter Wagner: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg (= geographical land survey 1: 200,000 natural spatial structure of Germany) . Bad Godesberg 1963.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geography Giersbeck: Map 152 Würzburg , PDF file, accessed on February 3 of 2019.
- ↑ Mensching, Horst (among others): The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg . P. 27.
- ^ Habbe, Karl-Albert: The natural space units on sheet 153 Bamberg 1: 200,000 . P. 85 (map).
- ↑ Mensching, Horst (among others): The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg . P. 28.