Jena plaice

Jena plaice
Highest peak	Coppanzer Berg ( 422  m )
Coordinates	50 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 31'  E
particularities	Borders directly on the Thuringian Basin in the west

The Jena plaice is north-northeast of the line Weimar - Magdala - Rothstein and, as part of the edge panels of the Thuringian basin in Thuringia one of the Saale openwork and its tributaries limestone - plateau . Constitutes, together with the Ohrdrufer plate , the clean mountains and the Ilm-Saale Platte , the Jenaer Scholle forms the natural area Ilm-Saale- and Ohrdrufer Platte . In geological terms, the northern eastern Thuringia can be called a high plateau, which was shaped by the ice advances of the Elster Glaciation and is cut up by the river valleys, especially the Saale, the Orla and the Weisse Elster .

Steep slope in the Jenaer Scholle : Above Dornburg , about 220 m above sea level. NHN , below Dorndorf , about 140 m above sea level. NHN.

Expansion of the edge plates , faults and clods in Thuringia

The view from the center of Jena towards the northeast illustrates the homogeneity of the high plateau and the numerous interruptions through valley slopes.

Elevations west of the Saale

The delimitation of the western Jenaer Scholle from the Ilm-Saale-Platte can be interpreted. Subject to the final scientific classification, the following elevations of the plateau in the Jena city ​​area are marked in relief.

• Cospoth (397 m)
• Mönchsberg (399 m)
• Coppanzer Berg (422 m)
• Lämmerberg / Holzberg (346.1 m)
• Wind bulbs (362 m)
• Schweizerhöhe (330 m)
• Sonnenberge (323 m)
• Jägerberg (341 m)

Further elevations follow to the west and north, including the 345 m high Plattenberg in Neuengönna . The plateau slopes gently to 262 m to its northern end near the mouth of the Ilm .

Elevations east of the Saale

• Wöllmisse (with a nameless mountain 404.8 m high); in the southeast of the independent city of Jena / in the west of the Saale-Holzland district
  • Jena local mountain (391.7 m); Jena
  • Core mountains (391.6 m); Jena
  • Johannisberg (373.0 m); Jena
  • Wolves (383.1 m); Jena / Bürgel , Saale-Holzland district
• Horseshoe (375.3 m); Jena / Saale-Holzland district
  • Jenzig (385.1 m); Jena
  • Großer Gleisberg (385.1 m); Jena
  • Old Gleisberg (355 m); Löberschütz , Saale-Holzland district
• Tautenburg Forest (360 m); Saale-Holzland district
  • Poxdorfer Höhe (356.0 m); Poxdorf , Saale-Holzland district
  • Pfennigsberg (324, 3 m); Frauenprießnitz , Saale-Holzland district
  • Hohe Lehde (319.0 m); between Golmsdorf and Dornburg-Camburg , part of the Tautenburg municipality , Saale-Holzland district
  • Hankelsberg (276.9 m); Dornburg-Camburg, Saale-Holzland district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilm-Saale- and Ohrdrufer plate
2. ^ Leutratal and Cospoth
3. ↑ according to Jena # mountains and heights
4. ↑ http://www.myheimat.de/jena/natur/blick-vom-jaegerberg-auf-jena-d2443926.html
5. ^ List of mountains and elevations in Thuringia
6. ↑ according to Highest Mountains and Elevations of Thuringian Landscapes

Web links

Commons : Jenaer Scholle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Landscape profile Ilm-Saale- and Ohrdrufer plate of the BfN