Golden reason

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View over the Goldener Grund towards the eastern Hintertaunus and Hochtaunus

The Goldener Grund is a natural area (code 303.0) in the Taunus (main unit group 30) in Central Hesse and the northern part of the Idsteiner Senke (main unit 303), which connects the Limburg basin (311) with the main ridge of the Hohe Taunus (301) in the south and the Hintertaunus is divided into an east and a west part.

geography

The Goldene Grund spreads along the north-flowing Emsbach River for around 32 km² from the northern end of the Idsteiner Wald (303.3) near Walsdorf over the town of Bad Camberg to its district Oberselters . In the popular sense, the Goldener Grund follows the Emsbach a little further and the towns of Niederselters, Oberbruch, Niederbruch, Lindenholzhausen, Ennerich and Eschhofen are seen all the way to its confluence with the Lahn in the Limburg basin.

The golden reason is the natural sub-unit with the code number 303.0 within the Idsteiner Senke (main unit 303). To the north it opens up like a funnel to the Limburg Basin , which, as a tertiary basin , has a close genetic relationship with the Idsteiner Basin.

The old trade route Frankfurt - Cologne , which corresponds to today's Bundesstraße 8 , the Main-Lahn-Bahn and the Bundesautobahn 3 run through the Goldener Grund , all roughly parallel to each other and approximately in a north-south direction.

Naming

The name is derived from the loess soil that is particularly fertile in this area . In the Ice Age, the sedimentary rock was blown out of the unprotected soil by the poverty of vegetation by the wind and deposited again in protected places. Mineral springs can be found in the far north between Ober- and Niederselters .

history

Costume of the late 19th century from the golden reason

In the Idsteiner Senke, elaborate landscape archeology has proven at least 66 so-called band - ceramic houses: they show how the first sedentary arable farmers lived in Hesse around 7,500 years ago.

Due to his missionary work and the foundation of the Walsdorf Monastery in the 12th century, the priest Gottfried von Beselich is also referred to in an old monastery chronicle as the "Apostle of the Golden Ground" .

Cities and towns in the Goldener Grund

View over the Goldener Grund from the west to the eastern Hintertaunus and Hochtaunus, left, middle edge of the picture A3 , in front Dauborn

Following the course of the river Emsbach from south to north, the following villages are located in the Goldener Grund:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map ( Taunus & Gießen-Koblenzer Lahntal ) and legend ( Taunus ) - attention: web links without return! - Environmental Atlas Hessen of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology: The natural areas of Hesse and their main units .
  2. ↑ Christoph W. Martin: Gottfried von Beselich: Life and Work. Beselicher Schriften Nr. 11, 1999, ISSN  0934-036X , p. 4.

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