Long mountains

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Long mountains
Highest peak Buchberg ( 527.2  m above sea  level )
location Districts of Coburg and Hildburghausen ; Bavaria and Thuringia ( Germany )
Long Mountains (Bavaria)
Long mountains
Coordinates 50 ° 22 ′  N , 10 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′  N , 10 ° 55 ′  E
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Long mountains north of Coburg

The long mountains are one to 527.2  m above sea level. NHN high, small mountain range and a natural area (No. 138 2 .11), which is mainly in the Bavarian district of Coburg ( Upper Franconia ) and with northwestern foothills in the Thuringian district of Hildburghausen .

geography

location

The Long Mountains lie on the border of Bavaria and Thuringia between the core town of Eisfeld an der Werra in the north, the municipality Lautertal an der Lauter in the east, Coburg an der Itz in the south and Bad Rodach an der Rodach in the west; the natural area extends in the southeast to Oberwohlsbach , a district of Rödental on the Itz .

The hilly landscape around Eisfeld connects to the north, and the Thuringian Slate Mountains further northeast . The volcanic cones of Straufhain rise a few kilometers west of the partly wooded, otherwise agriculturally used Langen Berge and to the west-northwest of it the Gleichberge .

Natural allocation

The Langen mountains form in the natural environment feature unit group Mainfränkische plates (no. 13) in the main unit Grabfeldgau (138) and in the sub unit Werra-Gäuplatten (138 2 ) the natural environment Langeberge (138 2 .11). The landscape leads to the west-north-west into the natural area Hildburghauser Muschelkalkberge (138 2 .10). Southeast and south, it descends into the Wiesenfeld-Coburg lowland (138 1 .30) and to the southwest in the Rodach base (138 1 from .31); these two natural areas belong to the subunit Grabfeld (138 1 ). To the northwest and north it falls into the subunit Hildburghäuser Vorland (390.1), and to the northeast and east it passes over into the subunit Schalkau Plateau (390.0); both belong in the main unit group Thuringian-Franconian Central Mountains (39) to the main unit southern foreland of the Thuringian Forest (390).

mountains

The highest mountain in the Langen Berge ridge and natural area is the Bavarian Buchberg ( 527.2  m ), which is located on the A 73 (south of the Eisfeld- Süd motorway junction ). This and other surveys are - with heights in meters (m) above mean sea level (NHN):

  • Buchberg (527.2 m), southwest Rottenbach and northeast Ottowind (Bavaria)
  • Mirsdorfer Kuppe (525.3 m), northeast of Mirsdorf and south of Rottenbach (Bavaria)
  • Sennigshöhe (522.8 m), northeast of Mirsdorf and southwest of Rottenbach (Bavaria)
  • Walleskuppe (513.5 m), southwest of Bockstadt (Thuringia; near the border with Bavaria)
  • Hohe Schwenge (500.7 m), south-south-east Fornbach and north-north-west Oberwohlsbach (Bavaria)
  • Jägersberg (491.4 m), southwest of Neukirchen (Bavaria)
  • Hinterer Berg (488.4 m), west of Neukirchen (Bavaria)
  • Ottenberg (487.4 m), north-north-west of Ottowind and south-east of Ahlstadt (Bavaria)
  • Hohe Rod (485.2 m), southwest of Fornbach (Bavaria)
  • Lauterberg (474.2 m), southeast of Tiefenlauter and north-northeast of Oberlauter (Bavaria)
  • Hildburghausener Höhe (461.6 m), west of Grattstadt (Bavaria)
  • Öttingshauser Höhe (457.3 m), south of Grattstadt (Bavaria)

Rhine-Weser watershed and flowing waters

The Long Mountains lie on the Rhine-Weser watershed that runs through Germany . The Lauter (Lauterbach) emerging there flows south into the Itz , whose water reaches the Rhine through the Main . The water of the short streams that arise on the north side of the ridge flow through the Werra into the Weser .

Landscape image

The Muschelkalk plateau, the peaks of which rise only gently above the surroundings, which are particularly high in the north, include two of the highest peaks in the Coburg Land, whose heartland lies south; there the terrain slopes down visibly. On the Long Mountains there are special features such as sinkholes and dry valleys due to the shell limestone .

Protected areas

These nature reserves (NSG; viewed roughly in a north-west-south-east direction) are located in the ridge and the Lange Berge nature reserve :

In the southeast, which is protected landscape Weisbach base (CDDA number 395,716th; 1972; 5.7727 square kilometers). In the northwest lies the two-part fauna-flora-habitat area Leite near Harras (FFH no. 5531-302; 5.7 km²), and in the southeast areas of the multi-part FFH area Muschelkalkzug extend from the Long Mountains to Weißenbrunn v . Forest (FFH no. 5631-371; 19.7574 km²).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Heinz Späth: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 141 Coburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1987. →  Online map (PDF; 5.0 MB)
  3. Irmhild Tschischka: Scrolled through the chronicle of the Bad Rodach districts; A piece of Bad Rodach's city history . Writings of the Rückertkreis Bad Rodach e. V, Issue 29, Bad Rodach 2005, ISBN 978-3-943009-29-3 , p. 43