Krofdorf-Koenigsberger Forest
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
The following mountains belong to the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest or are directly adjacent (heights above sea level ):
- Dünsberg (498 m; east of the center, television and observation tower)
- Altenberg (442 m; west of the center, observation tower)
- Ramsberg (440 m; central north, Hohensolms Castle )
- Adlerhorst (435 m; west, southeast of Oberlemp )
- Hirschkopf (389 m, west of the center, northwest of Blasbach)
- Krofdorfer Forst - center (357 m; east)
- Königsstuhl (348 m; central south)
- Vetzberg (310 m; southeast just outside, Vetzberg Castle )
- Gleiberg (308 m; south-east outside, Gleiberg Castle )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map and description of the Gladenbacher Bergland (main unit 320) in the Hesse Environmental Atlas
- ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
Web links
- Aerial view of the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest with borders, rivers and the most important elevations / placemarks ( Google Earth required)
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BfN
- Map services
- Landscape profile Lahn-Dill-Bergland