Markgräfler hill country

Markgräfler hill country
Ötlingen from Tüllinger mountain of
Systematics according to	Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Main unit group	D53 → Upper Rhine lowlands
About main unit	20 → Southern Upper Rhine Lowland
Natural space	201 → Markgräfler Hügelland
state	Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany

The Markgräfler Hügelland is a 299 square kilometer natural spatial unit in Baden-Württemberg . It bears the serial number 201 and belongs to the southern Upper Rhine Lowland (20), which belongs to the greater region of the Upper Rhine Plain . The associated cultural area is the Markgräflerland , from which the name is derived.

Location and description

The Markgräfler Hügelland forms the southeast end of the Upper Rhine Graben and includes the southern part of the foothills on the right bank of the Rhine . In the east, the natural area is limited by the rise of the Black Forest , in the west and south by the tectonically induced drop to the lower terrace of the Rhine Valley. In the north, the Batzenberg , a hilly zone of Oligocene marl , and the Massener Bridge, a flat loess-covered hill plate, form the edge of the Freiburg Bay . Opposite the Markgräfler hill country to the north is the Neumagen-Möhliner lowland. In the north there is the Markgräfler cuesta landscape of tertiary conglomerates built up hills to which hill Doggerschichten connect and Malmtone. In the south, flat, undulating, loess-covered, open-land dominated landscapes dominate. An exception to this is the striking Isteiner Klotz from Malmkalke. The southernmost mountain is the Tüllinger Berg on the border triangle .

In the Markgräfler Hügelland there is arable land, with intensive viticulture , especially on the western and southern slopes . This fact is favored by the warm summer and mild winter climate of the region with moderate amounts of precipitation in the congestion of the Black Forest climbs.

The highest point of the Markgräfler hill country is the 645 meter high Schönberg south of Freiburg im Breisgau .

Adjacent natural areas are the Black Forest (155), the Dinkelberg (161), the Markgräfler Rheinebene (200) and the Freiburg Bay (202).

structure

division

The Markgräfler Hügelland covers an area of ​​299 square kilometers and, with around 105,000 inhabitants, has a population density of 352 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The land use distribution is as follows:

• Settlement area: 9.86%
• Open land : 69.51%
• Forest : 20.63%
• Water: 0%

Middle centers are Müllheim as well as Lörrach and Weil am Rhein . 14% of the Markgräfler hill country are agglomerations , 86% other areas.

Localities

The largest towns in the Markgräfler Hügelland are (from north to south):

• Bad Krozingen
• Heitersheim
• Muellheim
• Schliengen
• Kandern
• Efringen churches
• Because on the Rhine
• Loerrach

literature

• Hugo Heim: Markgräfler Hüggelland and Rheinebene, geographic excursion guide for the Basel region , vol. 08, Wepf and Co., Basel 1979.
• REKLIP, Regio-Climate Project: Upper Rhine Middle-South Climate Atlas, The Study Area , Chap. 3, p. 9, 1995.

Web links

• Natural area profile Markgräfler Hügelland (201) - LUBW (PDF; 6.4 MB; notes )
• Landscape profile of the Markgräfler Hügelland of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
• Markgräfler Hügelland - topic description at leo-bw.de
• Soils in the Markgräfler hill country
• regionatur.ch: Markgräfler Hügelland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natural area Markgräfler Hügelland (No. 201), p. 6.