Großenengliser Platte

Natural areas within the West Hessian Depression; the Großenengliser Platte lies northwest of Homberg, between Schwalm and Eder

The Großenengliser Platte is a natural area (number 343.22) between the Eder and Schwalm rivers in northern Hesse . It is part of the Hessengau within the West Hessian Depression . It is located south of the city of Fritzlar between the " Fritzlarer Ederflur " (no. 343.211) in the north and the " Schwalmaue " (no. 343.210) in the east and south. In the west it is bounded by the eastern foothills of the Kellerwald .

The plate has a size of 18.38 km² and extends from the Wabern district of Uttershausen in the east to Kleinenglis in the south-west and to the foot of the Bürabberg near Fritzlar in the north-west. It includes the area around the villages of Uttershausen, Udenborn , Großenenglis and Kleinenglis as well as around the Kalbsburg and the deserted Holzheim below the Bürabberg. It can be found on the topographic map (measuring table sheet) TK25 No. 4921 and is crossed by the federal motorway 49 .

geology

The Großenengliser Platte is the southern of two tertiary ( Pliocene ) to Quaternary (old Pleistocene ) terraces on both sides of the Eder; its counterpart on the north side of the river is the Gudensberg hill country. It is one of the most important deposits of Quaternary to Tertiary gravel sand in Northern Hesse, with gravel sand thicknesses of over 20 m to 60 m. The gravel sands have a high gravel content of 50 to 60% and are covered by 3 to 10 m thick sandy loess and loess loam , which z. T. have coarse ceramic properties for the brick industry and were processed in local brickworks until the 1960s .

Both the Großenengliser Platte and the Gudensberger Hügelland are parts of the so-called Zennerner Senke, which formed in the Pliocene approx. 2 million years ago through gradual subsidence of the earth's surface and was filled with sediments by the forerunners of the Schwalm and the Eder . The gravels in the up to 60 m thick sand and gravel deposits consist of sandstones of the red sandstone , vein quartz , quartzite and silica slate . This indicates that they were predominantly washed up by the forerunner of today's Schwalm from a south-westerly direction from the area of the Kellerwald. In the areas with a thickness of up to about 35 m, two coarse filling units can be identified, in the areas over 35 m thick often three units; these are separated by clay , silt and fine sand layers 2–8 m thick .

Due to the wide range of grain sizes and the high proportion of gravel grains, all standard grain sizes can be produced from the sand / gravel mixture by sieving. The gravel, which is mainly composed of silica slate and quartzite, is also considered to be the first choice concrete aggregate. The mining is facilitated by the fact that there are hardly any conflicts with the water management , since the deposits are predominantly above the aquifers . The thickness and quality of the overburden from loess loam and loess enables later recultivation as high-yield agricultural and forestry locations.

economy

The productive soils are the basis for intensive agricultural use of the area. The gravel deposits themselves have been massively exploited in several places since the 1950s, especially in the Uttershausen area and northwest of the Kalbsburg. A largely developed gravel deposit near Uttershausen has been a major landfill for waste since the mid-1970s. In the district of Großenenglis, lignite deposits were mined underground deep below the Großenenglis Plate until the 1980s .

History

The Großenengliser Platte has been the site of historically significant events at least twice.

Battle of Fritzlar 1427

In the Mainz-Hessian War of 1427 , an army led by Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse inflicted a heavy defeat on an army of archbishopric-Mainz knights under Count Gottfried von Leiningen on the Great Englis Plate on July 23, 1427 . After another significant defeat on August 10, 1427 near Fulda , Archbishop Konrad was finally forced to recognize landgrave supremacy in Lower and Upper Hesse in the Peace of Frankfurt on December 8, 1427 and to fief almost all of his possessions in Lower and Central Hesse from the landgrave to take; the only exceptions were Fritzlar, Naumburg (Hessen) , Amöneburg and Neustadt (Hessen) .

Military parade 1936

On September 18, 1936, the Nazi regime , in the presence of Adolf Hitler and over 50,000 spectators, organized the military parade on the Großenengliser Platte , the largest German military parade since the First World War, as the conclusion of an extensive two-day combat exercise by the Wehrmacht .

51,088 9,285Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 9 ° 17 ′ 6 ″ E

Footnotes

↑ He was a relative, probably a nephew, of the former Provost of Mainz Cathedral and Bishop Elect Gottfried von Leiningen , who had died in 1410.

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[1] He was a relative, probably a nephew, of the former Provost of Mainz Cathedral and Bishop Elect Gottfried von Leiningen , who had died in 1410.