Marktheidenfelder Platte
| Marktheidenfelder Platte | |
|---|---|
| Systematics according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany |
| Main unit group | 13 → Main Franconian plates |
| About main unit | 132 → Marktheidenfelder Platte |
| Natural space |
132 → Marktheidenfelder Platte |
| Natural area characteristics | |
| Landscape type | Hill country |
| Highest peak | Stuhlberg (Lower Franconia) ( 381 m ) |
| state | Bavaria , Baden-Wuerttemberg |
| Country | Germany |
The Marktheidenfelder Platte (sometimes also Remlingen-Urspringer plateau ) is a natural area of the main unit group Mainfränkische Platten (main unit group 13). By far the largest part of the natural area is in Bavaria , with isolated parts also in the north of Baden-Württemberg . The Marktheidenfelder Platte lies between the Main Square, which surrounds the South Spessart, and the Main Triangle, which is the main wine-growing region in Franconia. The flat to hilly plateau is framed by the Main and has an area of 574 km². The plate has its most south-westerly point at Urphar near Wertheim. To the south it closes off the natural area north of the Tauber, with a small part in Baden-Württemberg, to the fertile Ochsenfurt Gau near Würzburg. In the area of the Platte, the areas around Steinfeld, Birkenfeld, Uettingen and Helmstadt are mainly arable, but also characterized by a wooded landscape. The Marktheidenfelder Platte leads the number 132 in the systematics of the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany . To the north, the Marktheidenfelder Platte borders the Sandstone Spessart and to the south and west to the Tauberland . The town of Marktheidenfeld in Bavaria gives its name to the Marktheidenfelder Platte .
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The broken plateau, which is covered with flat hills, is built up from shell limestone in its center. In the west there is Röt, in the east Lettenkeuper. The terrain drops from the 370 to 400 m high peripheral locations in the north and south towards the center to 200 to 300 m above sea level and shows a moving relief. The landscape, which is characterized by agriculture, is loosened up by interspersed villages and wooded parcels. The entire Main Franconian area was populated very early on due to the loess-rich soils and good climatic conditions. Settlements, mostly clustered villages in what is now land-cleared corridor, emerged mainly along the rivers. Viticulture or fruit-growing is often practiced on the shell limestone slopes exposed to the south and south-west. Sometimes there are also sheep pastures as well as dry and semi-arid grasslands.
Natural structure
The Marktheidenfelder Platte is naturally structured as follows:
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(for 13 Main Franconian plates )
- 132 Marktheidenfelder Platte also (Remlingen-Urspringer plateau)
- 132.0 Natural space unit 132.0 (without name)
- 132.00 Karlstadt-Birkenfeld lime dumplings
- 132.01 Eisinger Höhe
- 132.02 Roden-Waldzeller red areas
- 132.03 Urphar-Dertinger hill country
- 132.0 Natural space unit 132.0 (without name)
- 132 Marktheidenfelder Platte also (Remlingen-Urspringer plateau)
mountains
- Stuhlberg (381 m), south of Helmstadt
- Allersberg (375 m), north of Neubrunn
- Ameisenberg (374 m), south of Helmstadt
- Salzberg (369 m), north of Halsbach
- Büchelberg (342 m), west of Würzburg
climate
The climate is continentally warm with warm summers and mild winters with average annual temperatures between 8.5 and 9.5 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall is around 600 mm in the rain shadow of the Spessart and Rhön.
Protected areas
The FFH area "Irtenberger and Guttenberger Wald" is the largest protected area in the landscape. Akl's conservation goals are e.g. B. listed: Preservation or restoration of large, deciduous forests with forest communities of dry to moist locations as representative, large-scale deciduous forest complex with bog sites rare for the Main Franconian plateau natural area and valuable bat habitats with the highest population densities of Bechstein's bat in Lower Franconia. Flatland hay meadows, alluvial forests and the crested newt also occur here. The dry grasslands along the valley flanks represent a large-scale complex of habitats with national importance for species and biotope protection. The quarries and wetlands of the forests are also of national importance. The new construction of the ICE route Würzburg - Hanover is considered a major disruption.
Important places
literature
- Johannes Müller: Basic features of the natural geography of Lower Franconia . Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b LEO-BW.de: Marktheidenfelder Platte (natural space no.132 ) . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (ed.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
- ↑ Marktheidenfelder Platte - LEO-BW. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ BfN: landscape profile. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .