Goege
The Göge is a distinctive landscape and administrative area in Upper Swabia . It is geographically located in southwest Germany and there in the Baden-Württemberg district of Sigmaringen .
General
The Göge mainly consists of the municipality of Hohentengen with the suburbs Beizkofen, Bremen, Eichen, Enzkofen, Günzkofen, Ölkofen, Ursendorf and Völlkofen. The main town of Göge, Hohentengen, is located about 20 km southeast of Sigmaringen in the final moraine landscape of the Ice Age at an altitude of 594 m above sea level. The area of the Göge is about 37 km².
Natural
Natural space and geology
In terms of its natural surroundings, the “Göge” landscape is one of the Danube-Ablach slabs . These are bounded in the northwest by the Albrand, in the south by the young moraine wall of the former Rhine glacier , in the northeast by the outer edge of the glacial deposits of the furthest glacier advance and in the east opposite the Riß-Aitrach plates closest to them by the watershed between the Danube and Riss .
The Göge lies on the edge of the Danube basin , which extends between Mengen and Riedlingen . It is an old split-tongue basin from the time when the Rhine glacier also covered the southern slope of the Swabian Alb , as well as the split-tongue basin of the Federsee and the slightly undulating old moraine area around this basin. The natural area itself is cut into so-called slabs by the short tributaries, Ablach , Andelsbach , Ostrach , Schwarzach and Kanzach , which are directed towards the Danube basin and which under the prevailing ground moraine show sometimes mighty crack-age gravel , sometimes directly molasses. Last ice-age moving debris covers from boulder farms cover the slopes, especially the flatter ones facing east, and thus primarily determine the favorable soil conditions. The contrast to the young moraine , however, does not lie in the height differences, but in the fact that two quite different groups of surface shapes border one another.
Climate and Hydrography
The precipitates rise of less than 700 mm in Riedlinger pool south gradually up to about 800 mm at the annual average temperature is between 7 and 7.5 ° (values from the first half of the 20th century). Despite this relatively inland climate, true continental plant and animal species are only found sporadically. The original vegetation was a mixed deciduous forest , in which beech predominated on the slabs, slopes and terraces, and oak in the lowlands . In the Middle Ages, a natural spruce advance into the neighboring mixed forests began from the bog edge forests. The valley floors of the upper Danube and its right side valleys (in the Göge: Ostrach-, Krebsbach-, Färbebach-, Eichachtal and the valley of the brook Friedberger) are well with fens - and on moors covered. All historical streets of the Göge sub-communities therefore led over the dry high terraces of the terminal moraines.