Long field
The Lange Feld is a fertile loess plain in the Strohgau north of Stuttgart . This old settlement area stretches from the Neckar valley in the east to the Glemstal in the west and from the Stuttgart Keuperhöhen in the south to around Asperg in the north.
geography
The region, which is not exactly delimited in the north-east and south-west, is framed clockwise by Asperg , Eglosheim , Oßweil , Aldingen , Stuttgart-Mühlhausen , Zuffenhausen , Korntal-Münchingen , Schwieberdingen and Markgröningen . In the natural spatial survey of the area 123.14 Langes Feld , the loess areas of Stuttgart-Weilimdorf , Gerlingen and Ditzingen in the south-west and the areas of Tamm , Bietigheim-Bissingen (up to the edge of the Enz valley) and those above the Neckar valley to the north-east of the Aspergs were also identified Markings from Ingersheim , Freiberg and Benningen included.
Although it is not cut up by valleys, the homogeneous plain of the Lange Feld is part of a Gäu landscape : the Strohgäu , also called Unteres Gäu, which is part of the Neckar basin (main unit 123), which in turn forms part of the Neckar and Tauber-Gäuplatten natural area (group 12 ) counts. The shell limestone , typical of Gäu , is covered here by lower Lettenkeuper layers and loess deposited on top , which led to the formation of very fertile parabrown soils .
Agricultural favored area
The Lange Feld mainly consists of large, contiguous areas that are used intensively for agriculture. The high-quality floors have been used since the Neolithic period without having lost any of their performance. Because of the fertile soil and the mild climate, this old settlement was called "paradise" in the Middle Ages.
Nevertheless, the number of farms has decreased dramatically over the past fifty years. Due to the increasing competition for space and the proximity of a large sales market in the Stuttgart metropolitan area, many farmers in the Lange Feld have specialized in special crops or vegetable and fruit growing and numerous gardeners and tree nurseries have established themselves.
traffic
Several railway lines and a dense network of country and trunk roads run across the Lange Feld: the Autobahn 81 and federal highway 27 cross it in a north-south direction, as does the Stuttgart – Ludwigsburg railway line. On this line, Kornwestheim has developed from a former farming village into an industrial town with an important freight and marshalling yard . From here the Schusterbahn leads directly to Cannstatt and to the west the high-speed line Mannheim – Stuttgart , which first runs in the 4632 m long Langes Feld tunnel and from the A 81 to Markgröningen in a ditch to cross the Glems here.
On the Ludwigsburg – Markgröningen railway line, which opened in 1916, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1975 and, in the meantime, goods traffic as well. The Markgröningen east bypass interrupts the tracks that are otherwise still in place. Of Korntal to Weissach leading Strohgäubahn is still in operation.
In the south-west, federal road 10 also touches the Lange Feld, following the course of a former Roman and once important imperial road from Flanders via Speyer to Cannstatt and via Esslingen am Neckar , Ulm and Augsburg to Munich and Innsbruck . The relics of the once important road connection from Stuttgart to Grüningen , to which Count Eberhard im Bart relocated the "B 10" due to latent road robbery in the 15th century, were largely removed in the course of land consolidation. The historic Solitude-Allee , which connected Solitude Palace with the Ludwigsburg residential palace and served as the base line for the national survey in 1820 , was retained.
Since 1996, the state of Baden-Württemberg has been planning the Nordostring Stuttgart in the part of the area east of Kornwestheim , a two-lane - two-lane , autobahn-like road that will connect the B 27 with the federal highway 29 via a new Neckar bridge . The association ARGE Nord-Ost e. V. tries to prevent the construction of this road.
ecology
Due to increasing settlement, numerous industrial companies and high traffic volumes, the heavy air pollution is difficult to get under control. Ludwigsburg and Markgröningen are among the front runners among the municipalities of Baden-Württemberg when it comes to fine dust and other air pollutants.
Due to its proximity to densely populated residential areas, the Lange Feld is of great importance for landscape-related local recreation. The plateaus allow wide views, the deeply cut valleys at the edges provide an attractive contrast. Despite the land consolidation and the fragmentation by traffic routes, the Lange Feld is also of great value for nature conservation, especially for the animal species that rely on open agricultural landscapes, such as for example skylark , wagtail and partridge .
The eastern part of the Lange Feld is cut by the Kuffental, in which the Mussenbach flows. To the northeast of Markgröningen, the Leudelsbach changes its valley shape after a fault and digs itself deep into the shell limestone. The Leudelsbachtal nature reserve begins here .
literature
- Horst Brunner: Explanations for sheet 7120 Stuttgart-NW of the geological map 1: 25,000 of Baden-Württemberg. Edited by Geological State Office Baden-Württemberg. 3. rework. Ed., Stuttgart 1992.
- Stefan Kriz: The Strohgäu - a regional sketch . In: Volume 2 of the series Durch die Stadtbrille , ed. v. Working Group on Historical Research and Monument Preservation Markgröningen, pp. 13–22, Markgröningen 1986.
- Oscar Paret : On the Alemannic settlement of the Long Field . In: Württemberg past (Festschrift des Württ. Geschichts- und Altertumsverein), pp. 71–78, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1932
- Oscar Paret: Ludwigsburg and the land around the Asperg: A home book for the district of Ludwigsburg . Ludwigsburg 1934.
- Karl Eduard Paulus u. a .: Description of the Oberamt Ludwigsburg . Ed .: Königlich Statistisch-Topographisches Bureau. Stuttgart 1859. Reprint: Bissinger, Magstadt, ISBN 3-7644-0038-2 .
- Hermann Römer : Markgröningen in the context of regional history I. Prehistory and the Middle Ages . Markgröningen 1933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See adjacent sketch and map no.170 (Stuttgart) for the natural spatial structure, edited by Friedrich Huttenlocher and Hansjörg Dongus, Institute for Regional Studies, Stuttgart 1966
- ^ Hermann Römer : Markgröningen in the context of regional history I. Prehistory and the Middle Ages . Markgröningen 1933. p. 30.
- ↑ See Baden-Württemberg - Land of Special Cultures
Web links
- BfN landscape profile from Korngäu to Zabergäu (without differentiating between Korngäu and Strohgäu)
- Natural area profile Neckar Basin (123) - LUBW (PDF; 12.3 MB; information )
- ARGE Nord-Ost eV
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 30 ″ E