Malsburg Forest

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The Malsburger Wald is the one on the Escheberg up to 448.9  m above sea level. NHN high and about 39.06 km² large northern part of the Habichtswälder Bergland in the north of the Zierenberg district in the northern Hessian district of Kassel . Its outer northern foothills on the hedgehog bed are in the municipal areas of Calden and Breuna .

Malsburg Forest: Escheberg on the left and Malsberg on the right, on which the Malsburg castle ruins are located

Natural allocation

The Malsburg Forest forms the natural area 342.4 in the main natural unit group West Hessian mountain and sink country (No. 34) and in the main unit Habichtswälder Bergland (342).

Location and limits

The almost completely wooded Malsburg Forest, which is divided into a larger western and a smaller eastern part by the warmth , is traversed east of the center by the warmth running north. Beginning at their southern influence in the forest, it is bordered clockwise by the following localities:

The small villages of Laar and Hohenborn are located in the interior of the forest on the banks of the warmth . The Malsburg castle ruins are located in smaller clearings to the west of the river, the Sieberhausen estate to the north and Escheberg to the south-west - all of which belong to the town of Zierenberg.

In the outer south, a forest with the Falkenberg castle ruins extends to immediately north of the Hinterhabichtswälder peaks ; to the east, like a corridor, also south of the peaks, lies the Habichtswälder valley , which connects to the central south of the Malsburg forest. In the south-east, the Schartenberg with the Schartenberg castle ruins are joined by the Schreckenberge flowing south as the north of the natural area Dörnberg and Schreckenberge . All of these landscapes are also part of the Habichtwald mountainous region .

To the east, the forest borders on the Westuffelner Senke as part of the West Hessian Senke , in the north and north-west the Beverplatten and Diemelbörde adjoin landscapes that belong to the main unit group of Lower Saxony Uplands . In contrast, the Elsunger Senke in the southwest belongs to the Ostwaldecker peripheral sinks .

Flowing waters

The Malsburg Forest belongs to the Diemel river basin , which flows approximately 5 km north of the forest towards the northeast.

Its south-western part is almost affected by the Dase , a tributary of the Erpe , which drains via the Twiste to the Diemel. To the north of this, in the west of the forest, the river from the Schlüsselgrund rises, which drains to the Diemel via the Calenberger Bach, which rises further to the northeast, on the northwestern slope .

The north of the forest is crossed by the Ruhrbach flowing in an easterly direction , which flows into the warm northeast of the forest . The warmth itself flows through the forest east-central from south to north, its tributary Nebelbeeke frames the natural area from the east.

mountains

The surveys of the Malsburg Forest include the respective location in its western or eastern part - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NHN):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Map and description in the Hessen Environmental Atlas