Krofdorf-Koenigsberger Forest

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The Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest is a sub- natural area (320.05) of the Gladenbacher Bergland (main unit 320) in the extreme east of the Rhenish Slate Mountains , located in the central Hessian districts of Gießen and Lahn-Dill district , and to a minimal extent also Marburg-Biedenkopf .

The natural area includes the large contiguous forest area of ​​the Krofdorfer Forest in the east . The highest and best known elevation is the 498 m high Dünsberg immediately west of this forest .

Location and limits

The Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest is bounded clockwise as follows:

In the eastern north is the Krumbach , from whose confluence with the Vers the middle and lower reaches of the Vers Grenzfluss, until it flows into the salt flats .

To the south-east of this mouth, the forest extends north-east just over the lower reaches of the salt flats, which flows through the north-east in south-westerly directions, out to Fronhausen .

The western and southern borders are formed by the Giessener Lahntalsenke downstream of the Lahn and, from Wetzlar , upstream of the Dill to the mouth of the Lemp . From that mouth, the Lemp is upstream to Oberlemp western border to the Hörre .

In the middle north, the southern watershed of the Dill tributary Aar is the approximate northern limit, although the source areas of some of the Aar tributaries are still just in the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest.

places

Places in the interior of the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest are (from west to east) Ehringshausen - Breitenbach , Aßlar - Bechlingen , Wetzlar - Blasbach , Hohenahr - Hohensolms (in the extreme north) and the Biebertal districts of Königsberg and Fellingshausen, which are clearly separated from each other by the Dünsberg massif .

The Krofdorfer Forst northeast of Fellingshausen, which occupies the eastern third, is practically uninhabited.

Rivers

The following rivers arise in the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest (rivers and places in brackets flow through the natural area only as a border river or are marginal; rivers and places in brackets are some distance away):

Surname Receiving
water		 Length

[km]		 Catchment
area
[km²]		 Waste
flow
[l / s]		 Mouth
height
[m. ü. NN]		 Places
(downstream)		 DGKZ
(( Lahn )) Rhine (r) 254.6 5924.53 54000 61 (( Lollar , Giessen , Wetzlar )) 2-58
( Salt flats ) Lahn (r) 8.4 137.85 1322 164 ( Salt soils ) 258-34
( Verse ) Salt flats 8.4 42.55 188 ( Kirchvers , Reimershausen ) 25834-8
Krumbach Verse (r) 4.6 6.22 210 ( Krumbach ) 258348-4
Wissmarbach Lahn (r) 6.2 10.37 53 161 ( Wissmar ) 258-372
Gleibach Lahn (r) 7.7 7.48 159 ( Krofdorf ) 258-376
Fohnbach
( Kropbach ) 		Lahn (r) 12.0 13.95 85 156 (Krofdorf) 258-392
Hammersbach Fohnbach (r) 3.3 2.21 197 ( Vetzberg ) 258392-2
Dünsbergbach Beaver (l) 4.6 7.66 230 258394-2
Beaver Lahn (r) 13.5 34.68 217 155 Königsberg (, Rodheim-Bieber ) 258-394
Schwalbenbach
( Atzbach ) 		Lahn (r) 9.5 12.77 76 152 258-398
Blasbach Dill (l) 7.7 15.56 118 152 Blasbach 2584-98
Grenzbach Blasbach (r) 4.3 5.18 202 258498-2
Bornbach Dill (l) 6.3 6.20 160 2584-9712
Bechlinger Bach Dill (l) 6.5 9.87 81 163 Bechlingen 2584-96
Breitenbach Lemp (l) 3.3 4.65 201 Breitenbach 258492-6
Lemp Dill (l) 11.7 34.97 274 170 ( Oberlemp , Niederlemp , Kölschhausen ) 2584-92
dill Lahn (r) 55.0 717.70 9514 147 ( Ehringshausen , Asslar ) 258-4

mountains

View from Giessen past the castles Vetzberg (left) and Gleiberg (right) to the 498 m high Dünsberg

The following mountains belong to the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest or are directly adjacent (heights above sea ​​level ):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map and description of the Gladenbacher Bergland (main unit 320) in the Hesse Environmental Atlas
  2. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )

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