Kitzinger Main Plain

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Kitzinger Main Plain
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Main unit group 13 →
Main Franconian plates
About main unit 137 →
Steigerwald foreland
Natural space 137.0Kitzinger Main Plain
circle Kitzingen district
state Bavaria
Country Germany

As Kitzinger Main plane which is natural spatial main unit 137.0 within the Steigerwald foothills (137 About main unit) of the Mainfränkisches plates designated (main unit group 13). It is a mostly flat section between the Central Main Valley (133) further to the west (in which the eponymous town of Kitzingen is located) and the Iphofen-Gerolzhofener Steigerwaldvorland (137.1) to the east . In the north the main unit is bounded by the drift sand areas around Dimbach , in the south the Ifftal area (130.01) in the Ochsenfurter Gau and Gollachgau (130) forms the border. The area is characterized by the climatically dry Lettenkeuper plain . While in the north around Dimbach and Albertshofen there is still a pronounced layer of sand with dune formation , the south is far less dominated by these drifting sands. Agriculturally, the cultivation of field vegetables and fruit predominates, the viticulture that occurs further west is almost nonexistent.

Natural structure

The Kitzinger Main Plain is structured naturally as follows:

literature

  • Karl-Albert Habbe: The natural space units on sheet 153 Bamberg 1: 200,000 - A bundle of problems and a suggested structure . In: Mitteilungen der Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft Vol. 50/51 for 2003/2004 . Erlangen 2004. pp. 55-102.
  • Horst Mensching, Günter Wagner: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg (= geographical land survey 1: 200,000 natural spatial structure of Germany) . Bad Godesberg 1963.

Web links

Commons : Kitzinger Mainebene  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Geography Giersbeck: Map 152 Würzburg , PDF file, accessed on February 6, 2019.
  2. Mensching, Horst (among others): The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg . Pp. 31-33.