Waldeck Forest

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The Waldecker Wald is an approximately 292 km² large, up to 492.3  m above sea level. NHN high, predominantly heavily forested red sandstone move in northern Hesse ( Germany ). It represents the main unit 340 2 within the West Hessian highlands (main unit group 34) , which is combined with the Waldecker Gefilde (340 1 ) to the west to form the Waldecker Tafel (340) without these two landscapes having significantly more in common than other main units.

The Waldecker Wald is divided into the Orpewald in the north, the Arolser Platte in the northeast, the Twister Hügelland in the (north) west, the Long Forest in the eastern center and the Old Forest in the south.

Geologically, the Waldecker Forest lies on the Middle and Lower Buntsandstein.

geography

location

The Waldecker Wald is 45 km long in its south-south-west-north-northeast orientation, but only 2 to, in the center, a maximum of 16 km wide. Its northern tip touches the valley of the Diemel between Marsberg and Warburg , its southern tip touches that of the Eder immediately west of Fritzlar .

To the west and northwest, the Waldecker Wald merges into the only island-like forested Waldecker fields (340 1 , also Waldecker Tafel), to the southwest, south, in all eastern directions and to the north into the largely unwooded Ostwaldecker peripheral depressions (main unit 341). The transition to the west is generally steeper than that to the east.

Adjacent mountain ranges are in the north, immediately behind the valley of the Diemel, the Eggegebirge , in the east the Habichtswald and in the south (west) en the Kellerwald ; west of the Waldecker Gefild, various parts of the Ostsauerland mountain range , the eastern roofing of the Rothaargebirge , join. While the Kellerwald and Habichtswald, as well as the Waldecker Wald itself, belong to the West Hessian Bergland , the Rothaargebirge together with the eastern roof belong to the Süderbergland and the Egge Mountains to the Lower Saxon Bergland .

Natural structure

overview

The Waldecker forest divided natural area as follows (in brackets: digit in the natural areas of Hesse ):

  • 340 2 [= 340.1] Waldeck Forest
    • 340 2 .2 [= 340.10] Orpewald (46.52 sq km)
    • 340 2 .3 [= 340.11] Twister hill country (64.08 km²)
    • 340 2 .4 [= 340.12] Arolser Platte (43.55 km²)
    • 340 2 .5 [= 340.13] Langer Wald (80.51 km²)
    • 340 2 .6 [= 340.14] Old forest (57.20 km²)

The natural areas of Hesse or the Environmental Atlas of Hesse by the State Environment Ministry simplifies the spelling by inserting a 0 as the first decimal place instead of the subscript 1 in the Waldecker Gefilde and a decimal 1 instead of the subscript 2 in the Waldecker Wald. Since there are no 340 2 .2 and 340 2 .2, the last digits were also reduced by 2 in the Waldecker Wald.

The natural areas in detail

The Orpewald in the far north, west of Rhoden ( Diemelstadt ), is only interrupted in its forest cover by the valley of the Orpe River, which flows through the north of the Waldecker Wald in a northerly direction .

The Twister Hügelland on both sides of the Twiste , which flows through the Waldecker Wald in a northerly direction, around the town of the same name , which adjoins to the south, has contiguous forest areas in the north and west, while the area around the Twisteal in between has been cleared over a large area.

In the Arolser Platte , which adjoins the interface between Orpewald and Twist valley to the east, around the eponymous city of Bad Arolsen , the forest cover is not only interrupted over a large area around the city area, but is also interrupted by the Twistesee , beyond which the Twiste the Waldecker Wald in the northeast. Leaving direction, interrupted.

To the east of the Twister hill country and south of the Arolser Platte, the Lange Wald stretches south to roughly the watershed between Eder and Diemel or on the Weidelsberg in the southeast just beyond. The forest cover is  noticeably interrupted , especially in the northeast near Landau and in the southwest near Freienhagen - both on the Twiste tributary, the Watter .

The now south-southeast adjoining old forest is continuously wooded over a length of 17 km with a width of only 2 to 3 km. In the far north the Elbe rises here , leaving the natural area to the northeast to flow around the Weidelsberg clockwise and finally to turn south to the Eder .

Long and old forests represent a large section of the natural border between the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in the west and the Kassel district in the east. A southern branch of the old forest extends into the Schwalm-Eder district . Eastern parts of the Long and Old Forest are in the Habichtswald Nature Park .

Waters

Flowing waters

A section of the watershed runs through the Long Forest between the Diemel in the north, which drains to the Weser, and the Eder in the south, which faces its source river Fulda - both flowing in eastern directions. In the process, significantly more area of ​​the Waldeck forest drains to the Diemel.

The following rivers originate in or flow through (*) the Waldecker Wald u. a. (each arranged downstream from west to east):

Still waters

The still waters of the Waldecker Wald include:

mountains

The surveys of the Waldecker Wald and its foothills include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NHN):

  • Weidelsberg (492.3 m; with Weidelsburg ) - singularity of the Ostwaldecker peripheral depressions at the interface between the long and the old forest
  • Stirn (475.0 m) - extreme south of the Long Forest , Eder-Diemel watershed
  • Heitzelberg (467.4 m) - extreme north of the Old Forest
  • Sandkopf (450.4 m) - old forest
  • Marke (approx. 440 m) - extreme (south) east of the Twister hill country , east of Korbach
  • Massenhauser Höhe (432.5 m) - north-western junction of the Twister hill country to the Waldeck area
  • Netzer Berg (432.2 m) - old forest
  • Geizienberg (421.3 m) - western Langer Wald at the interface to the Twister hill country
  • Stucksförst (419.1 m) - Orpewald
  • Rambachsköpfchen (413.0 m) - southern old forest
  • Halsberg (410.8 m) - western Langer Wald
  • Rauenstein (366.4 m, with rough stones ) - western Ostwaldecker peripheral depressions
  • Schierenkopf (363.2 m) - western Langer Wald
  • Kappelberg (approx. 349 m) - south-western Arolser Platte
  • Stöckberg (344.8 m) - - western Langer Wald
  • Johanneskirchenkopf (332.2 m) - extreme south of the Old Forest

Localities

These towns and communities are located with their districts in and, put in the following "()", in the Waldecker Wald:

vegetation

The forestry areas mainly consist of deciduous forest with a high proportion of beech . Pure spruce forests are also found.

Worth seeing

Among the attractions in the Waldecker forest owned (strictly speaking, already the eye eastwards subsequent Ostwald Ecker edge sinks associated) Weidelsburg that at Ippinghausen is at Weidelsberggipfel and the Castle Höhnscheid that between Freienhagen is in the west and Ippinghausen the east, and the nearby Volkhardinghausen standing French oak .

Traffic and walking

Across the Long Forest runs from west to east direction, a portion of federal highway 251 , the Brilon in the northwest of Kassel connects the east and in the area of the Long Forest of Sachsenhausen (Waldeck) in the West Freienhagen (Waldeck) to Ippinghausen (Wolfhagen) and Bründersen (Wolfhagen) leads. On the Arolser Platte near Bad Arolsen , the B 450 coming from Wolfhagen in the southeast meets the B 252 coming from Korbach in the southwest and leaving the forest in a northerly direction to the federal motorway 44 .

Sections of several hiking trails lead through the landscape of the Waldecker Wald , including the Bonifatiusweg (Bonifatiuspfad) , Diemel-Eder-Weg , Ederseeweg , Herkulesweg , Märchenlandweg and student path .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Editor): Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  3. ↑ a b 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)
  4. ↑ a b BfN - Landscape profile: Waldecker Wald ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on bfn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  5. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology

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