Glösingen-Enster slopes
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| Systematics according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | ||
| Greater region 1st order | Low mountain range threshold | ||
| Greater region 2nd order | Rhenish Slate Mountains | ||
| Main unit group | 33 → Süderbergland |
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| About main unit | 334 → North Sauerland Oberland |
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| 4th order region (main unit) |
334.1 → Oeventrop Ruhr Valley |
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| Natural space |
334.12 → Glösingen-Enster slopes |
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| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 21 '55 " N , 8 ° 12' 25" E | ||
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| local community | Arnsberg , Meschede | ||
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Glösingen-Enster slopes are, together with the Wennemer Mark, a small-scale natural subunit with the order number 334.12 of the Oeventrop Ruhr Valley (334.1) within the North Sauerland Oberland (334). According to the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany, they include the wooded northern slopes of the Oeventrop Ruhr valley (Mittelruhr breakthrough), which are up to 400 to almost 500 m above sea level. Rise above sea level and consist of slates of the folded upper carbon . The largest settlement in the natural area is the Enste district of Meschede .
In the western part of the natural area north of the Arnsberg districts of Glösingen and Oeventrop , which, lying in the valley floor at the foot of the Glösingen-Enster slopes, themselves belong to the Oeventrop Ruhrtalgrund (334.11), the mountain slopes are lower, more gently sloping and less structured than in the eastern part north of Meschede , Wennemen and Freienohl . They are largely covered by the Wennemer Mark forest area. There the Plackweghöhe (334.5) drops steeply to the Ruhr into the Mescheder Kammer (335.5) by means of rugged and shallow mountain spurs with deep side notch valleys. In the low-soil upper slopes there are natural sites of beech forest , oak-hornbeam forests predominate in the flatter lower slopes .
The rivers Große Steimecke , Kleine Steimecke , Kleine Gebke , Linsenmecke , Glassmecke , Enster Bach , Gebke , Wennemer Siepen , Bremke , Giesmecke , Lüttkebach , Schwalbenhohlsiepen , Filscheidter Siepen , Haarsche Siepen , Wolfssiepen and Mühlmecke with their tributaries drain the Glösingen-Engen into the Ruhr. Elevations in the natural environment are of Heinsberg , the Damberg , Haskers Brücher , Köhlerberg , plug head , Kuhn Mountain , Big Mountain , Lüttkeberg , Wennemer height , Schneeberg , Papenberg , wolf head , Moosberg , Heidbeil and Greverhagen .