High ground

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High ground

The high ground is up to 678.2  m above sea level. NN high plateau in the southern part of the Biberach district in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).

Geographical location

The high ground extends around 10 km south of Biberach an der Riss between the communities Ummendorf in the north and northeast, Eberhardzell in the southeast and south and Hochdorf in the west. It lies between the valleys of the Umlach in the east and the Riss in the west; Federal road 30 leads through the Riss valley from Ummendorf past Hochdorf to Oberessendorf (Eberhardzell) in the south .

Villages, hamlets or farms are located on the high terrain: Winkel (to Ummendorf) and Wettenberg (Hochdorf) in the north, Berg , Hochgeländ and Busenberg with the Busenberg and Benzenhaus elevations in the middle, as well as Scharben (all in Hochdorf), Märbottenweiler (Eberhardzell) and Venusberg (Hochdorf) in the south.

In the north-north-east-south-south-west direction the high ground is around 8 km long and in the west-east direction a maximum of 3.3 km wide.

Natural allocation

The high terrain is naturally allocated as follows:

Landscape image

While the high areas of the high ground, where agricultural areas ( fields , pastures and meadows ) predominate, are mostly sparsely forested, there are extensive forests on its slopes in many places.

The Reicheckwald, located in the southern part of the plateau south of Hochdorf (max. Approx. 673  m above sea level ) belongs to its large forest areas  . Not far south of this forest area lies on an unforested area around 250 m southeast of Scharben (hamlet in the municipality of Hochdorf) at 678.2  m above sea level. NN the highest point of the plateau, with which it rises a maximum of almost 130 m above the riss valley adjoining to the west. At its north-northeast end, the landscape on the southern edge of Ummendorf falls to a minimum of 550  m above sea level. NN from.

While in some places there are hamlets belonging to the surrounding communities on the plateau , the forest and raised bog area of ​​the Wettenberger Ried nature reserve extends to its eastern part .

history

Over the centuries, castles were built on the edge of the plateau and the settlement of the plateau began. These include Neidegg Castle (near Eberhardzell) and Schweinhausen Castle (near Schweinhausen ), from whose wall remains the Heinrichsburg Castle (near Eberhardzell) was built between 1,600 and 1620 . About 1 km south-southeast of Wettenberg, on the eastern edge of the Wasenmoos in Wettenberger Ried , a few meters east of a road there is the site of a former castle, of which nothing has survived.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Hans Graul : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 179 Ulm. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  3. ^ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 188/194 Kaufbeuren / Mittenwald. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1993. →  Online map (PDF; 6.4 MB)

Web links

Commons : Hochgeländ  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 33 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 41 ″  E