Waldecker fields

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The Waldecker Gefilde are a natural spatial unit belonging to the West Hessian mountain and sink region in the northern part of the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg and in the north-west bordering extreme northeast of the Hochsauerlandkreis in Westphalia .

The climes lie between the East Sauerland mountain range in the west, the Kellerwald in the south and the Waldecker Wald in the east. They extend in the north to the Diemel near Marsberg and in the southeast near Waldeck to just before the Eder . The central location is the city of Korbach .

In contrast to the mountain ranges bordering on it in the west and east, the plateau, which is barely forested, is geologically shaped by Zechstein and Lower Buntsandstein . Due to its location on the leeward side of the Rothaargebirge , precipitation is remarkably low.

Natural structure

The Waldecker Gefilde is structured as follows:
(Areas in brackets, for parts located entirely in Hesse by environmental atlas)

The Environmental Atlas Hessen of the State Environment Ministry simplifies the spelling by inserting a 0 as the first decimal place instead of the subscript 1 in the Waldecker Gefilden. According to this, the Korbacher Land would have the code number 340.01 and the Sachsenhausen hill country would have the number 340.013.

Original assignment

In the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany , the Federal Institute for Regional Studies under the direction of Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen first had the Waldecker Gefilde with the southwestern Medebacher Bay and other landscapes on the eastern slope of the Rothaargebirge under the name Waldecker Hochland to a (provisional) Main unit summarized.

This structure was revised in the following years by the formation of the new main unit Ostsauerländer Gebirgsrand of the western neighboring Süderbergland (main unit group 33), whereby only the (north-) eastern part, which no longer belongs to the Rhenish Slate Mountains , remained as Waldecker Gefilde . Since there were now 11 main units in main unit group 34 due to other, simultaneous changes in the natural spatial order (formation of the main unit Ostwaldecker Randsenken ), the Waldecker fields were combined under the reference number 340 with the main unit Waldecker Wald to the east to form the main unit Waldecker Tafel and the two main units are separated from each other by the following subscript numbers.

The red land

The Rote Land , which occupies the north of the Waldecker Gefilde, is an undulating, arable plateau on a layer of clods of Zechstein and Unterem Buntsandstein in the east of the city of Marsberg ( Hochsauerlandkreis , NRW ) and in the northwest of the Waldeck-Frankenberg ( Hesse ) district. It drains over the Glinde and the Orpe north to the Diemel .

Obermarsberger plateau

The Obermarsberger plateau occupies the west and the center of the Red Land southeast of Obermarsberg and thereby the majority of its area. It includes the catchment area of ​​the Glinde until shortly before its confluence with the Diemel in Marsberg and in the (eastern) south that of the upper reaches of the Orpe . To the west it borders on the Adorf Bay and the Diemelbergland - both parts of the Eastern Sauerland mountain range - in a steep slope of the landscape to the valleys of Rhene and Diemel, while the slope to the east takes place gently.

On the plateau lies roughly the (south) east half of the urban area of ​​Marsberg with Obermarsberg, Erlinghausen , Canstein , Heddinghausen , Leitmar , Borntosten and Giershagen ; furthermore the extreme west of Diemelstadt with Hesperinghausen and Helmighausen , the extreme northwest of Twist valley with Gembeck and the extreme northeast of Diemelsee with Vasbeck .

Rotenlandsgrund

The Rotenlandsgrund in the east of the Red Land is a narrow depression of the Orpe in the Lower Buntsandstein in the immediate western connection to the Orpewald , the northern part of the Waldecker Forest , near Udorf (district of Marsberg ), Kohlgrund (extreme northwest of the Bad Arolsens district ) and Neudorf ( Southwest of the Diemelstadt district).

Korbacher Land

The Korbacher Land , located in the north of Hesse's Waldeck , occupies the south of the Waldeck region. The Zechstein and sandstone plateau, similar to the ridge, is bordered by the Kellerwald (in the south), the Ostsauerland mountain range (west) and the Waldecker Wald (east) and drains mainly to the south to the Eder , and to a small extent in the north via the Twiste to the Diemel .

Berndorfer reason

The Berndorfer Grund on the upper reaches of Twiste near Berndorf and Mühlhäuserbach near Mühlhausen , both municipality of Twist Valley, is the lowest-lying and climatically mildest part of the Korbacher Land es, the north of which it occupies. Unlike the other partial landscapes, it drains to the Diemel and not south to the Eder .

Korbach plain

The Korbach Plain in the west of the Korbacher Land around the city of Korbach mainly comprises the catchment area of ​​the Edersee tributary Itter along with its left, much longer tributaries Marbeck and Kuhbach , before the union of the spring arms to the south enters the Kellerwald . To the west the plain abuts the to Ostsauerländer mountainous border associated Grafschafter Bergland , where the sources of the two Itter tributaries as well as the Twiste are.

The Korbach districts of Lelbach , Lengefeld , Nordenbeck and Ober- and Nieder-Ense are located on the Korbach Plain . To the east of the last-named places, in the southeast of the plain, are the Vöhler districts of Dorfitter and Obernburg , and in the extreme southwest of the landscape Immighausen , municipality of Lichtenfels .

Goddelsheimer field

The Goddelsheim field around Goddelsheim (municipality of Lichtenfels ), surrounded on three sides by slate mountains , occupies the extreme southwest of the Korbacher Land and mainly includes the catchment area of ​​the upper reaches of the Heimbach , a left Orke tributary. The limestone plateau is separated from the Korbach plain to the east by a fault step up to 80 m high between Nordenbeck and Immighausen , where the source of the Itter is also located . To the south of Immighausen and to the east of it, a narrow tongue separates the plain from the north-western Kellerwald to the south with the 490 m high Höhnscheid .

To the west and south-west the landscape flows almost smoothly into the Waldstruth , to the north the Eschenberg-Eisenberg ridge with the 562 m high Eisenberg represents a clear barrier. The ridge is part of the Grafschafter Bergland , which, like the Waldstruth, is counted to the Ostsauerland mountain range .

Sachsenhausen hill country

The Sachsenhausen hill country in the central and eastern Korbacher Land near Sachsenhausen is the fringing area of ​​the Kellerwald north of the Edersee , which strikes northeast to the red sandstone ridges of the Waldecker Forest . Deep, heavy clay soils lie on Zechstein and Unteres Buntsandstein . The landscape is drained south to the Edersee via the rivers Aselbach , Werbe and Reiherbach .

In the southwest of the hill country lies Marienhagen , on the Aselbach Vöhl and on its left Asel-Nebenbach Basdorf (all municipality of Vöhl ) - each at or near the southern interface to the Kellerwald. To the north of it are Strothe (at the headwaters of the Werbe) and Meineringhausen (at the right and thus western tributary of the Walme ), the two easternmost districts of Korbach .

The middle and east of the landscape with Alraft , Ober- and Nieder-Werbe (all at the Werbe, last-named place at the mouth or the southern seam), Sachsenhausen (on the right Reiherbach tributary Klingebach ) and Waldeck Castle in the extreme southeast is completely in Waldeck urban area .

mountains

In its inner elevations, the rather flat, undulating hilly landscape of the Waldecker climes does not reach the heights of the immediately neighboring mountains of the Ostsauerland mountain range ( Eisenberg : 562 m) in the west and the Kellerwald ( Höhnscheid : 490 m) in the south, but it does that of the neighboring Waldecker to the east Forest .

Mention should be made:

  • Koppelberg (430 m) - western interface of the Sachsenhausen hill country to the Korbach plain east of Obernburg
  • Waiting point (409 m) - Sachsenhausen hill country west of Sachsenhausen
  • Platte (406 or, further south, 414 m) - Obermarsberger plateau south of Erlinghausen
  • Klinger Berg (381 m) - Sachsenhausen hill country south of Sachsenhausen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Federal Institute for Regional Studies uses the term "Gefilde" here explicitly in the plural!
  2. ↑ a b c Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB).
  3. ↑ a b Map and description in the Hessen Environmental Atlas .
  4. ↑ The numerical value results from 285 km² for the entire Waldecker area (see landscape profile) minus the values ​​for the Korbacher Land.
  5. ^ Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany , 4./5. Liegerung - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen 1957; Main units map 1: 1,000,000 1954 (preliminary) and 1960 (final).

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