Homburg Basin

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Natural area map: St. Ingberter Senke, Kirkeler Schwelle, Homburg Basin (from west to east) and Bexbacher Riedel in the north

The Homburg Basin is a natural area in the southeastern Saarland . It takes its name from the district town of Homburg .

Location and demarcation

The Homburg Basin is part of the higher-level natural area West Palatinate Moorniederung and thus belongs to the St. Ingbert-Kaiserslauterer Senke . The Blies flows through it from north to south and drains it. Due to the favorable topographical structure, it is now densely populated and used as an industrial site.

In the north-west, the Homburg basin is bordered by the Neunkircher valley basin near Wellesweiler , in the north near Mittelbexbach and Kleinottweiler by the Bexbacher Riedel , in the north-east east by Jägersburg and west of Reiskirchen by the Jägersburger Moor (Peterswaldmoor), in the east by Vogelbach , Bruchhof , Sanddorf , Homburg and Schwarzenbach from the Sickinger level , in the very south near Schwarzenacker from the Ingweiler valley widening , in the southwest near Wörschweiler from the Sankt Ingbert-Kirkeler forest area and in the west near the Abstäberhof and Bayerisch Kohlhof from the Kirkeler Schwelle . The Homburg Basin has its lowest point at its southern tip at the outflow of the Blies at 222  m above sea level. NHN . Its highest points hardly exceed 250  m above sea level. NHN .

geology

The Homburg basin is part of the large red sandstone area at the western end of the West Palatinate moorland and is made up of flat terrace slabs of the middle red sandstone. These terrace slabs rise from the Bliesaue in the south to the north. They are traversed by the weakly sunk valleys of the Erbach , Felsbach and Feilbach . In the lowlands, the red sandstone is often overlaid by floodplains. The landscape is particularly characterized by boggy lowlands and drifting sand dunes. Both the large intermediate bog basins (Closenbruch, Königsbruch) and the rather small-scale inland dunes / sand fields shape the landscape. Due to the high groundwater level, extensive peat complexes have formed in places over the millennia.

Nature reserves

There are several nature reserves in the Homburg Basin, z. B. the Kühnbruch near Altstadt , the Höllengraben near Beeden and the Closenbruch near Sanddorf .

Web links

Thomas Simon: 3.2.3 The natural area "Homburg Basin". In: Biotopes and protected areas in the district town of Homburg. District town Homburg Personnel and Organization Office, accessed on September 13, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Various authors: Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural spatial units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps
    • Sheet 159: Saarbrücken (Helga Schneider 1972; 154 pages)
    • Sheet 160: Landau id Pfalz (Adalbert Pemöller 1969; 47 pages)
  2. ↑ http://archiv.homburg.de/content/pages/7177.htm , accessed on April 8, 2018
  3. ↑ http://simon-hom.de/aa-umwelt/Umwelt/03-02-03.html , accessed on April 8, 2019