Kaufunger Forest
| Kaufunger Forest | ||
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| Highest peak | Hirschberg ( 643.4 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Kassel district , Werra-Meißner district , Göttingen district ; Hesse and Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| part of | Fulda-Werra-Berglands , East Hessian highlands | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 15 ′ N , 9 ° 45 ′ E | |
| surface | 170 km² | |
The Kaufunger Wald in the district of Kassel and Werra-Meißner district in Hesse and in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony is up to 643.4 m above sea level. NHN high and around 170 km² (excluding the Söhre ) large low mountain range in the extreme north of the East Hessian mountains , the Fulda-Werra-Bergland . There it forms the over- nature area Kaufunger Wald und Söhre , which also includes the Söhre.
In contrast, Kaufunger Wald is usually only understood to mean the plateau of the manor district of Kaufunger Wald , which is free from communes, north of the Großalmerode rift zone , i.e. the part of the forest north of the upper reaches of the Gelster or north of the Wedemann and lower reaches of the Losse .
geography
location
The Kaufunger Wald is located in the northeast part of northern Hesse and in the southern part of southern Lower Saxony . It spreads between Kaufungen in the southwest, Kassel in the west, Hann. Münden in the north, Witzenhausen in the east and Großalmerode in the south. Depending on the definition, the south adjoining Söhre must be added to this.
Natural structure
Within the Fulda-Werra-Bergland (main unit 357) the Kaufunger Wald is structured as follows:
- 357.7 Kaufunger Wald and Söhre
- 357.70 Söhre
- 357.71 Kaufunger Wald plateau ( Vorderer Kaufunger Wald )
- 357.72 Rear Kaufungen Forest
Unless otherwise indicated, in the following “Kaufungen Forest” only refers to the natural areas 357.71 and 357.72.
Edge sinks
The following marginal depressions separate the Kaufunger Wald from the neighboring natural areas (clockwise, starting in the south):
- western Großalmeröder rift zone with the Wedemann and, after its confluence, the Losse in the south
- Kassel basin with the Fulda in the south and middle west
- Mündener Fulda-Werra valley with the Fulda in the northwest and the Werra in the northeast
- Witzenhausen – Hedemündener Werratal along the Werra in the north east
- Lower Gelstertal and northern Velmeder Valley along the Gelster in the south east
- eastern Großalmeröder rift zone on the Upper Gelstertal in the eastern south
Adjacent mountain ranges
In the southwest, the Kaufunger Wald borders the Söhre on the other side of the Lossetal ; in the west , the Habichtswald joins, clearly separated by the West Hessian depression . In the north-west the Fulda separates the massif from the Reinhardswald and in the north-east the Werra separates it from the Bramwald . In the southeast, beyond the Gelster, joins the significantly higher mountain range of the Hohe Meißner with the Kasseler Kuppe ( 753.6 m ).
Together with the Hohe Meißner and large parts of the Söhre, the Hessian part of the "actual" Kaufunger forest forms the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger forest) , to which the nature park is located in the north, on the Lower Saxony side Münden connects.
mountains
The highest mountain in the Kaufunger Forest in the broader sense is the 643.4 m high Hirschberg in the east of the Söhre . To the north of it, in the southeast of the actual Kaufunger Forest, whose Hessian forest areas are grouped together in the Kaufunger Wald estate , rises the second highest mountain, the 641.2 m high Bilstein , which is equipped with an observation tower .
The mountains in the natural area Kaufunger Wald and Söhre include - usually with a height in meters (m) above mean sea level (NHN); if not otherwise stated loud; those of the Söhre are marked with an asterisk (*); In the case of mountains that are just outside the aforementioned natural area, the natural spatial units are mentioned in italics after the mountain height:
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1 mountain in the Stiftswald Kaufungen , a part of the Söhre
Waters
In the following, the waters of the actual Kaufunger Forest are listed; for waters of the Söhre see here .
The larger rivers in and around the Kaufunger Wald include:
(each upstream of the Fulda and the Werra, i.e. from north to south, sorted; length, catchment area and runoff in brackets)
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Fulda , passes the Kaufunger Forest to the northwest
- Nieste (21.8 km, 88.1 km², 921 l / s), rises on the Steinberg
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Losse (28.9 km, 120.6 km², 1418 l / s), rises outside the Kaufunger Forest near Hessisch Lichtenau and forms, together with the right tributary
- Wedemann (5.1 km, 14.5 km², 213 l / s), the western southern border
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Werra , passes the Kaufungen Forest to the northeast
- Gelster (18.2 km, 60.6 km², 771 l / s), rises north of the Hirschberg (Söhre) and forms the eastern southern and southern eastern borders
The still waters in the Kaufunger Wald include:
- Roter See , north of the Langenberg
- Steinbergseen , directly on the Kleiner Steinberg
- Steinbergseen , directly west of the Steinberg
- Michelskopfsee , directly on the Michelskopf
Localities
The localities in and around the Kaufunger Wald include:
geology
The mountains of Kaufunger Forest consist of a 80 million-year-old red sandstone plate by some basalt cones and coal seams is interspersed. Because this slab is partially impermeable to water, for example due to deposited or embedded clays, some moors (e.g. chicken field ) and swamps have formed. The landscape is criss-crossed by numerous rivers, some of which have dug themselves deep into the sandstone slab over the course of millions of years or which delimit the low mountain range from the outside.
Activities and sights
The Kaufunger Forest, in the Middle Ages Empire forest is due to numerous hiking trails (z. B. Eder-Gelster-way , Frau Holle path , Herkulesweg , Kassel-climbing , Premiumweg Niester giant , Premiumweg Kaufunger Forest (Bilstein) and fairy-tale land ) popular . Cyclists and mountain bikers use the forest trails to keep fit and relax. The annual events Bilstein-Bike-Marathon and Bilstein-Marathon attract numerous activists and visitors. In winter, numerous paths are converted into cross-country trails .
Other attractions in the Kaufunger Forest which includes Bilstein tower on the top of Bilstein and between chicken Feldberg and little Steinberg located Moor Hühnerfeld . A leisure attraction is the Ziegenhagen adventure park near Witzenhausen -Ziegenhagen, where the Ziegenberg castle ruins are located. In the western reaches of Kaufunger Forest is located in Sichelnstein the castle Sichelnstein and Nieste the archaeological site of the former castle Sensenstein .
You can take off from the Witzenhausen airfield for sightseeing flights over the Kaufunger Forest.
Transport links
The Kaufunger Wald is accessible through the federal highways 7 , 80 and 451 , of which the first two lead to the federal highway 7 . In the future, a section of the A 44 ( Kassel - Eisenach ) that is still in planning will run through the south-western part of the Kaufunger Forest ; Another part of this motorway - near Hessisch Lichtenau - has already been opened to traffic. In addition, several circular and national roads pass through the Kaufunger Wald, one of which extends between Nieste and Kleinalmerode over the pass Umschwang .
Witzenhausen and Hann. Münden have train stations on the Halle – Hann railway line. Mouths ; Kaufungen , Helsa and Hessisch Lichtenau are served by the RegioTram Kassel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Landscape profile Kaufunger Wald of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information ) (without Söhre)
- ^ Map and description in the Environmental Atlas of Hesse
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Table coal mining on Stellberg (mountain height 495 m above sea level : 1st paragraph), on eco-pfade.de (PDF; 323.3 kB)
- ^ Topographic map 1: 25,000, sheet 4623, Kassel Ost, Lower Saxony State Administration Office, State Surveying, Hanover
- ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ^ "Geological overview map of Hesse". Historical atlas of Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ EntdeckerTour Premiumweg P11 Niester Riesen , on naturparkfrauholle.land
- ↑ Discovery Tour Premium Trail P14 Kaufunger Wald (Bilstein) , on naturparkfrauholle.land
literature
- Christian Hilmes et al .: Kaufunger Wald. Country and people between Fulda and Werra . Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies e. V. Kassel 1834 - Kaufungen Forest Branch, Kaufungen 1998
- Jörg Wagner: Man and Forest in the Middle Ages. Forest and dominion, represented by the Kaufunger forest . Wissenschaftsskripten, Series 8: History and auxiliary historical sciences, Volume 1. Kletsmeier, Giessen 1997, ISBN 3-930494-32-9
- Ernst Baier, Cord Peppler-Lisbach, Volker Sahlfrank: The flora of the old district of Witzenhausen with the Meißner and Kaufunger forest . 2nd, supplemented and improved edition. Writings of the Werratal Association Witzenhausen, issue 39.Werratal Association (WTV) Witzenhausen, Witzenhausen 2005, ISBN 3-9807194-2-1
- Paul Benecke, Hans-Jürgen Liebscher, Ernst Meyer: Forest-hydrological investigations in the Kaufunger forest . Writings from the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Volume 63. Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-7939-5063-8
Web links
- Map / aerial photo of the Kaufunger Wald / Placemarks ( Google Earth required)
- Geo-Naturpark Frau-Holle-Land - Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald (official site), on naturparkfrauholle.land
- Landscape profile Kaufunger Wald of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information ) (without Söhre)