Upper Black Forest
High Black Forest is a not clearly delimited landscape, regional and natural space designation mostly in the southern and central Black Forest .
Concept history
The name Hochschwarzwald originally owes its popularity to tourism. Winter sports and climatic health resorts in high altitude areas of the Black Forest already used it in their advertising before the First World War. Since the 1920s, the term has also been used in regional literature, but with changing regional delimitations.
While in some authors he only referred to the landscape around the Feldberg massif, others equated him with the southern Black Forest . Still others use the term for the highest part of the Middle Black Forest southeast of the Elz valley (areas around the Kandel and the plateau of St. Peter and St. Märgen ), sometimes even as far as the Hünersedel north of the Elz.
Use in tourism advertising has also been documented for the high altitude areas of the northern Black Forest around Hornisgrinde and Kniebis . In addition, official Baden and Wuerttemberg geological publications from the 1930s designate the higher areas of the northern Black Forest, in contrast to the marginal clods that have sunk at fault lines and the lower tectonically raised central Black Forest, as the Black Forest .
In its second delivery in 1955, the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany divides the Black Forest into six main units, the southwestern one being listed as No. 155 Hochschwarzwald with an area of 1271.2 km². In addition to the southern uplift center of the Black Forest, which culminates in the Feldberg, it also includes the deeply cut valleys and the Weitenau foothills extending from there to the south and west. See also: Natural structure of the Black Forest .
With the renaming of the former Neustadt / Black Forest district to Hochschwarzwald district (1956–1973) and today's Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district , the term also became the name of administrative units.
The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation defines the number 15500 Hochschwarzwald (Southern Black Forest) with an area of 1550 km² in its landscape profiles . It covers the areas of the Black Forest approximately south of a line between Freiburg and Neustadt .
In the natural area profiles of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Black Forest (No. 155) extends further north to the Elz and covers an area of 1990 km².
literature
- Roland Weis, Harald Riesterer: The Upper Black Forest: from the Ice Age to today , 2nd edition, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7995-1196-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Rudolf Metz : On the natural spatial structure of the Black Forest. In: Alemannisches Institut (ed.): Alemannisches Jahrbuch 1959, Schauenburg , Lahr 1959, pp. 23–26
- ↑ Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany Volume 1, pp. 256-258
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Landscape profile 15500 Hochschwarzwald (Southern Black Forest) , accessed on November 25, 2018
- ↑ Upper Black Forest natural area profile (155) - LUBW (PDF; 10.1 MB; notes )