St. Ingbert-Kaiserslauter Valley

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The St. Ingbert-Kaiserslauterer Senke

The St. Ingbert-Kaiserslauterer Senke is a natural spatial main unit (consecutive numbering: 192) within the Saar-Nahe-Bergland ( main unit group 19). It extends over an area of ​​approx. 247.5 km² from Kaiserslautern to St. Ingbert . In a smaller extension to Homburg to the southwest, it was once called the Kaiserslauterer Senke .

Location and demarcation

The depression extends from west to east over a length of about 65 km from Rentrisch to Enkenbach and reaches a maximum width in north-south direction of 11 km near Homburg . The eastern part - from the eastern edge of the built-up core city of Kaiserslautern to Alsenborn in the northeast and Hochspeyer in the southeast with the 394  m high Queitersberg - corresponds geomorphologically to the Palatinate Forest , into which it also merges to the south, east and north and to which it is commonly counted.

The natural area borders in the east on the Palatinate Forest , in the south (from east-northeast to west-southwest) as well as on the Zweibrücker Westrich and the Sankt Ingbert-Kirkeler forest area , in the west on the Saarkohlenwald and in the north on the North Palatinate Uplands and covers a total of 247.5 km² . The height varies between 222  m above sea level. NHN on the Blies near Schwarzenacker and 280  m above sea level. NHN near Jägersburg . The area is drained by the Lauter and Mohrbach in the east, in the middle part by the Glan and the Blies , which cross the Homburg Basin from north to south, and in the west by the Rohrbach , which flows into the Saar.

Natural structure

During the work on the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany , a main unit of the Kaiserslauter Senke was drawn in the mapping from 1954 and described in the third delivery from 1956; The mapping from 1960 practically did not differ from this either. This former main unit ended to the southwest already immediately west of Homburg. The forest area north of Kirkel as well as the basin of St. Ingbert were at that time still assigned to the main unit of the Central Saarland Forest , which also included the Saarkohlenwald , the Warndt and the Saarbrücken-Kirkeler Wald , all of which are now viewed as separate main units. All of them reach significantly higher altitudes and the latter in particular has considerable relief energy.

The eastern part of the landscape was mapped and structured by Adalbert Pemöller in the single sheet 1: 200,000 160 Landau in 1969 , which had no impact. It was not until Helga Schneider published Saarbrücken on sheet 159 in 1972 that the layout of the main unit changed, which grew considerably towards the south-west and was accordingly now called St. Ingbert-Kaiserslauterer Senke .

The St. Ingbert-Kaiserslauterer Senke includes the natural spaces

The units 192.7–192.6–192.4–192.2–192.1–192.0 are grouped in this (descending) order from (south-south-) west to (east-north) east; 192.5 joins 192.4 to the northwest, 192.3 joins 192.2 and 192.1 to the north.

The Kaiserslauter Senke comprised the units 192.0 to 192.4. The units 192.6 and 192.7 were originally counted as part of the Central Saarland Forest , the unit 192.5 to the North Palatinate Uplands .

morphology

The natural area is largely on red sandstone . As break and moor landscapes often predominate in the valleys (see place names Bruchhof , Bruchmühlbach , Waldmohr , etc.), settlement initially began on the edges of the depression. Only when the lowlands began to be drained for about 200 years were the valleys increasingly populated and cultivated. The cities of Homburg and Landstuhl are now - like many other places - mainly in areas that were previously inaccessible. In addition to moors, meadows and forests, there are now numerous rough meadows in the lowlands . In the slightly higher areas, however, there is seldom arable land, as the agricultural yield is rather low due to the red sandstone. In the last 200 years, the forest has developed from mixed forest to almost pure coniferous forest. Due to the high humidity in the valley areas, fog, cold air and frost are common in the morning hours. The afternoon temperatures, however, usually reach higher values ​​than elsewhere.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (ed.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  2. ↑ Helga Schneider: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 159 Saarbrücken. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1972. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  3. ↑ Adalbert Pemöller: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 160 Landau i. d. Palatinate. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. →  Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB)
  4. ↑ Landscape profile of the landscape area 191.0 Kaiserslautern basin of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
  5. ↑ Landscape profile of the landscape area 191.1 Landstuhler Bruch of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
  6. ↑ Landscape profile of the landscape area 191.2 Peterswaldmoor of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
  7. ↑ Landscape profile of the landscape area 191.3 Northern edge of the West Palatinate Moorniederung of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, accessed on April 7, 2019 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  9. ↑ https://www.tutiempo.net/clima/ws-106140.html , accessed on April 7, 2019