Limpurger Mountains
| Limpurger Mountains | |
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 The Limpurger mountains of the Middle East |
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| Highest peak | Altenberg ( 564.7 m above sea level ) |
| location | District of Schwäbisch Hall and Ostalbkreis , Baden-Württemberg , Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 58 ' N , 9 ° 54' E |
The Limpurger Mountains are up to 564.7 m above sea level. NHN high mountain range of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains in the Schwäbisch Hall district and in the Ostalb district in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ). Much of the countryside belonged formerly to Limpurger country the taverns of Limpurg whose name derives from their headquarters, the castle Limpurg in Schwäbisch Hall .
geography
location
The Limpurger Mountains are about 55 km northeast of Stuttgart and about 60 km (as the crow flies ) east-southeast of Heilbronn , between the Haller level in the north, the Ellwanger mountains in the east and southeast, the Frickenhofer Höhe in the south, the Mainhardter Wald in the west and the Waldenburg Mountains in the northwest. They extend southeast of Schwäbisch Hall , west of Sulzdorf , Obersontheim , Bühlertann , Bühlerzell and Adelmannsfelden and extend to the Blinden Rot northwest of Abtsgmünd . Untergröningen , Sulzbach-Laufen , Gaildorf , Westheim and Michelbach an der Bilz are located immediately west of the wooded mountain landscape.
Its distinctive geomorphological boundaries are the edge of the steps in the north down to the Haller level, in the east the Bühlertal and in the south and west the large arch of the Kocher valley cut. In the southeast, the Limpurger Mountains run out with the very narrow and long Lower Jurassic plateau of the Büchelberger Ridge towards the mouth of the Blinden Rot.
mountains
The highest point of the Limpurger mountains like the district Schwäbisch Hall is the east of Sulzbach am Kocher located Altenberg ( 564.7 m ) on which the observation tower Altenberg tower stands. Even better known is the Einkorn ( 510.8 m ) , which rises south of Hessental above the Hohenloher-Haller level , a prominent spur facing west on the northern edge of the forest landscape.
Some of the elevations of the Limpurg Mountains listed in the following list, sorted in descending order by height in meters above sea level (NHN), protrude only a little above the rather flat plateau of the larger western strand of the mountain landscape, they are therefore also visible from the outside hardly as single mountains. The eastern chain, which is insignificant in terms of area and heights, but is more subdivided, therefore has many more individual mountains that can be named.
- Altenberg ( 564.7 m ), approx. 500 m east-southeast of Sulzbach am Kocher - Hohenberg , with Altenberg tower , prominent single mountain above the western mountain range
- Höfenberg ( 555.4 m ), approx. 550 m southeast of Abtsgmünd - Höfenhölzle , highest part of the Büchelberger ridge on its northwestern slope
- Herschel ( 522.8 m ), approx. 1.5 km west of the Gaildorf hamlet of Winzenweiler
- Streitberg ( 514.4 m ), approx. 2.5 km east-northeast of Gaildorf- Eutendorf
- Bauernschnäue ( 512.4 m ), approx. 2 km southeast of Schwäbisch Hall- Hessental , starting point of the less important Ostkette
- Krämersreute ( 511.3 m ), approx. 1 km west-southwest of the Gaildorf hamlet of Eisbach
- Einkorn ( 510.8 m ), approx. 1 km southeast of the Hessental train station , northwest spur
- Rauher Berg ( 508.5 m ), approx. 2.5 km west-southwest of Schwäbisch Hall- Sulzdorf , Ostkette
- Hehlberg ( 504.4 m ), approx. 2 km south-southwest of Sulzdorf, Ostkette
- Neuberg ( 499.4 m ), approx. 2.5 km southwest of Sulzdorf, Ostkette
- Berg ( 474.3 m ), approx. 1 km northeast of Obersontheim - Herlebach , Ostkette
- Adelberg ( 466.9 m ), approx. 2 km southeast of Rosengarten- Westheim ; With the hardly divorced Buchhorn ( 463.4 m ), it sits as an independent small massif in front of the western chain
- Eichelberg ( 463.1 m ), immediately northwest of Sulzbach am Kocher , Westkette, mouth spur of the Eisbach
- Hausberg ( 449.6 m ), about 1.5 km south-southwest of Obersontheim- Hausen , Ostkette
- Leippersberg ( 448.1 m ), about 1.5 km west-north-west of Bühlertann - Kottspiel , mouth of the Fischach and the southern end of the Ostkette
Flowing waters
The flowing waters of the Limpurger Mountains are:
- the Kocher , which has its source near Oberkochen, flows mainly northwest, passes the Limpurger Mountains on their south and west roofs and then flows on from Schwäbisch Hall to Bad Friedrichshall , where it flows into the Neckar .
- the Bühler , which rises south-southeast of the Limpurger Mountains on the Büchelberger Grat , passes the forest landscape in the east, flows via Bühlertann to Vellberg and flows further north from the right into the Kocher.
- the Fischach , a left tributary of the Bühler; it rises on the Einkorn and crosses the Limpurger Mountains to the southeast (against the direction of flow of the Bühler); in the north of the Limpurger Mountains it separates a rather narrow and soon significantly lower eastern branch from the main chain in the west.
- the Eisbach , a right tributary of the Kocher; it rises near Gaildorf- Winzenweiler , flows south-southeast to its confluence with the Kocher and in the middle of the Limpurger Mountains separates a narrow ridge between itself and the Kocher from the main part of the western chain.
geology
The Limpurger Mountains are part of the Keuper Hills . The Gipskeuper forms large plains at the foot of the northern mountains to the Fischachtal. The reason for this is the thin, but erosion-resistant, dolomitic to sandy Corbula Bank , formerly known as the "Engelhofer Platte" after the village of Engelhofen at the eastern foot of the western chain of the mountain landscape. The reed sandstone of the Stuttgart Formation is formed in the north and south of the Limpurger Mountains in the mighty “flood facies”. Between Gaildorf and Mittelfischach it is trained in the “normal or still water facies”, which are only a few meters thick. The lower colored marls , which are covered by erosion-resistant silica sandstone , form the most striking rise . To the south of Winzenweiler, Obere Bunte marl and parlor sandstone increasingly cover the ridge. The summit of the Altenberg extends over the marl to the Lower Jurassic , which also rests on the even more southern Büchelberger ridge .
Protected areas
In or on the edge of the wooded Limpurg Mountains, mostly along the flowing waters and their immediate surroundings, there are many small fauna-flora-habitat areas : In the east is the multi-part, widely divided FFH area Upper Bühlertal (FFH No. 7025- 341; 6.36 km² in size), in the west is the FFH area Kochertal Abtsgmünd - Gaildorf and Rottal (FFH no. 7024-341; 10.59 km²) and in the north-west are the southern parts of the multi-part FFH- area Schwäbisch Hall bay (FFH No. 6924-342;. 7.95 square kilometers).
In addition, there are numerous, sometimes multi-part landscape protection areas (LSG) in or on the edge of the ridge : Northern part of the Limpurger Mountains with slopes and terrain between Hessental and Sulzdorf ( CDDA No. 323280; designated 1993; 5.76 km² in size), western slope of the Limpurger Mountains Mountains (CDDA no. 325804; 1975; 5.36 km²), Kochertal with adjacent mountain ranges (CDDA no. 322232; 1971; 14.12 km²), Fischachtal with side valleys and adjacent areas between Herlebach and Kottspiel (CDDA no. 320809; 1998; 15.54 km²), Eisbachtal and Irsbachtal (CDDA no. 320572; 1996; 85 ha ), Büchelberger Grat and its surroundings (CDDA no. 320135; 1988; 2.28 km²), Upper Bühlertal with side valleys and adjacent areas (CDDA no. 323366; 1984, 5.90 km²) and Oberes Bühlertal and the surrounding area (CDDA no. 323368; 1988; 3.05 km²).
A part of the Einkorn Forest in the north of the Limpurger Mountains east of the Einkorn mountain in the Vellberg forest district has been designated as Schonwald Einkorn (207.2 ha) since 1995 , the core zone of which is the Altspöck Bannwald (125.6 ha).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Supplemented from Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information ) and topographic map 1: 25,000.
- ↑ Information on the protected and protected forest according to fva-bw.de (PDF; 416 kB)