Marburg back
| Marburg back | ||
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| Highest peak | Vogelheerd ( 369.8 m above sea level ) | |
| location | near Marburg ; District of Marburg-Biedenkopf , Central Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Part of | West Hessian mountainous region | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 50 ′ N , 8 ° 44 ′ E | |
| Type | Low mountain range | |
| rock | Red sandstone | |
The Marburger ridge is one to 369.8 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the West Hessian mountainous region (also called West Hessian mountain and sink region ). It is located near Marburg in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and forms the natural area 348.00.
geography
location
The Marburg Ridge, which consists of red sandstone and is particularly wooded in the north and south, extends directly west of Marburg and thus rises above the Lahn valley , which is here at an altitude of about 180 to 190 m . It stretches from Goßfelden in the north to Niederweimar in the south. In the north to northeast the terrain drops to the confluence of the Wetschaft in the Lahn, behind which the Burgwald gradually joins, and to the south to the confluence of the Allna . On the other or eastern side of the Lahn Valley, the almost higher with up to 380 m rise Lahnberge .
The Marburg Castle with the castle park stands in particular on the Marburg back . Many Marburg districts - Oberstadt , Marbach , Ockershausen and Wehrda - nestle against this ridge from the valley, others - the Stadtwald settlement (near the former Tannenberg barracks ) and Wehrshausen - are located directly on it. Therefore, the ridge is more clearly integrated into the Marburg cityscape than the Lahnberge lying to the east opposite and beyond the Lahn, which probably explains that the actual term is relatively unknown, while the Lahnberge is signposted in many places in the city due to the Philipps University of Marburg and is therefore known are. The fact that the significantly higher peaks of the north-eastern Gladenbacher Bergland around the Rimberg connect to the west without a valley worth mentioning is also responsible for the low level of awareness of the term Marburg Back .
Natural allocation
The ridge forms in the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34), in the main unit Marburg-Gießener Lahntal (348) and in the subunit Marburger Bergland (348.0) the natural area Marburg Ridge (348.00). To the east and south, the landscape falls into the natural area of Marburger Lahntal or Marburger Lahntalsenke (348.02). To the north it falls into the subunit Wetschaft-Senke (345.0), which belongs to the main unit Burgwald (345) . Beyond the depression in the north-west are the Sackpfeifen-Vorhöhen (332.0) with the Wollenberg ( 473.8 m ), which belong to the main unit group Süderbergland (33) to the main unit Ostsauerland Gebirgsrand (332). To the west the landscape leads into the natural area Elnhausen-Michelbacher Senke (320.11), which the Damshaeuser peaks (320.10) with the Rimberg ( 497.1 m ) follow, and to the south-west into the natural area Salzbödetal (320.12), all three in the main unit group Westerwald (32) and in the main unit Gladenbacher Bergland (320) belong to the subunit Gladenbacher Hügelland (320.1).
mountains
The mountains and elevations in the Marburg Ridge include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (MSL; unless otherwise stated according to):
- Vogelheerd (369.8 m) - between Marbach and Michelbach -Görzhausen
- Mosenberg (356 m) - west of Wehrda
- Burned mountain (approx. 355 m) - between Marburg and Wehrda
- Defense houses height (348.6 m) - with water tank
- Wehrholz (337.7 m) - northeast of Michelbach
- Rickshell (331.5 m) - south of Goßfelden , quarry (Weißenstein)
- Schneiße (327.1 m) - near the Stadtwald leisure area, between Cyriaxweimar and Gisselberg
- Buchholz (324.2 m) - southeast of Goßfelden , opposite the Rickshell to the east
- Kirchspitze (323.5 m) - with refuge, between Marburg and the Burned Mountain
- Hasenkopf (320.2 m) - at the former Tannenberg barracks, southwest of Ockershausen - view of the hinterland, the Kellerwald and the Großer Feldberg
- Dammelsberg (318.0 m) - with a refuge, between Marburg and Marbach
- Weimarscher Kopf (305.4 m) - between Gisselberg and Niederweimar
- Heideberg (296.5 m) - west of Cölbe
- Schlossberg (approx. 287 m) - with Marburg Castle , near the castle park ; Before summit of Dammelsberg
Wine route
The Weinstrasse (Wagenstrasse) ran across the Marburg Ridge in a north-south direction as a medieval trade route . West of Marburg-Ockershausen it was crossed by the once important east-west route, the Leipzig-Kölner-Fernhandelsstraße ( Brabanter Straße ), which continued in the direction of Erfurt, which may also have been the reason for the foundation of the city of Marburg.
Coming from the south, the Weinstrasse passes the Hasenkopf from the west and the Wehrshäuser Höhe from the east, in order to circumnavigate the Vogelheerd to the west in the direction of Michelbach . From there it leads steeply up the Wehrholz , from which it runs about 2 km at a height of a good 300 m in a north-easterly direction towards the Buchholz , in order to cross the state road 3381 Wehrda - Goßfelden at its highest point opposite the Rickshell . There are also three wind turbines on the ridge described last ; if the weather conditions are right, the view extends from Michelbach to the highest elevations of the Kellerwald, almost 30 km away ( Hohes Lohr with 656.7 m and Wüstegarten with 675.3 m ). In the southeast you can see the Spiegelslustturm ( Kaiser Wilhelm Tower ) on the Lahn Mountains , in the north the next 14 km away? Wind turbine (s)? in Ernsthausen . When visibility is very good, some of the 30 to 35 km distant peaks of the Rothaargebirge can be seen in the north-northwest - especially the Ziegenhelle ( 815.9 m ), the Heidkopf ( 703.8 m ) and the Bollerberg ( 757.7 m ).
References and comments
- ↑ a b Gerhard Sandner: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 125 Marburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. → Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Mountain height according to unknown / not researched source
Web links
- Environmental Atlas Hessen: Nature and Landscape → The natural areas of Hesse and → Natural spatial structure - natural area main unit 348, on atlas.umwelt.hessen.de
- BfN landscape profile: Marburg-Gießener Lahntal (No. 34801), on bfn.de
- Map / aerial photo of the Marburg Ridge (and the Lahnberge) with borders and all important elevations / placemarks ( Google Earth required)