Heldenbergener Wetterau

The Heldenbergener Wetterau is a landscape in the southern Wetterau and in the northern Rhine-Main area. According to the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany , it is a basic unit of the southern Wetterau (no. 234.3; 261.98 km²), which it together with the Friedberger Wetterau (no. 234.30; 117.45 km²) and the Nidda-Aue ( No. 234.31; 18.94 km²). It is named after the place Heldenbergen (municipality of Nidderau ).

View above Niddatal-Kaichen to the east over the Heldenbergener Wetterau

geography

Location and demarcation

The southwest corner of the Heldenbergener Wetterau is located at the confluence of the Nidder river and the Nidda near Gronau . A flat, undulating loess landscape stretches between the two rivers, rising slightly to the north-east of the Vogelsberg and increasingly being overlaid by remnants of its basaltic cover. The north-eastern border is therefore less pronounced and runs roughly from Staden to Lindheim .

landscape

The mighty loess layer with a thickness of up to 20 meters between the two rivers is only broken up by the edges. Today it is used intensively for agriculture. Like the neighboring hill country of Ronneburg , it rises to the northeast and is more fragmented there. The loess there is reduced to the trough-shaped depressions, while the higher layers represent full forms from the volcanic activity of the Vogelsberg. They are usually of loose sediments of Tertiary surrounded and forested predominantly today. South of the Nidder, the landscape becomes more diverse due to the red sandstone block of the Büdinger Forest that extends far to the west . Rotliegend sediments of clay and sandstones as well as conglomerates can be found along the rivers .

Natural structure

The Heldenbergener Wetterau is assigned as follows

• (to 23 Rhine-Main-Lowlands )
  • (to 234 Wetterau (539.78 km²))
    • (to 234.3 Southern Wetterau (261.98 km²))
      • 234.30 Friedberger Wetterau (117.45 km²)
      • 234.31 Nidda-Aue (18.94 km²)
      • 234.32 Heldenbergener Wetterau (125.59 km²)

Today's localities in the Heldenbergener Wetterau

• Altenstadt
• Büdesheim
• Burg-Graefenrode
• Bonstadt
• Oak trees
• Hereditary City
• Heroes Mountains
• At the top of the Nidder
• Kaichen
• Oberau
• Rendel
• Rodenbach
• Stammheim

Historical

The natural area of ​​the Heldenbergener Wetterau is largely congruent with the historical territory of the Freigericht Kaichen .

Web links

Commons : Heldenbergener Wetterau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Peter Prinz-Grimm, Ingeborg Grimm: Wetterau and Mainebene. Borntraeger (= collection of geological guides 93 ), Berlin / Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-443-15076-4 .
• Alfred Pletsch: Hessen. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-534-06206-X ( Wissenschaftliche Länderkunden 8; Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin (West) 3 ), pp. 41-46, especially pp. 42f.
• Günther Seidenschwann: Geology and geomorphology of the Main-Kinzig district - the natural area and its development. In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany 27. Hanau and the Main-Kinzig district. Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1119-1 , pp. 13-25 (esp. P. 22f .: Südliche Wetterau and Ronneburger Hügelland ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description according to Pletsch 1989, p. 42f.
2. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (third delivery 1956, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
3. ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 139 Frankfurt a. M. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
4. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hesse Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology (the area information comes from an earlier version of the online environmental atlas.)