Medebacher Bay
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| Systematics according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | ||
| Greater region 1st order | Low mountain range threshold | ||
| Greater region 2nd order | Rhenish Slate Mountains | ||
| Main unit group | 33 → Süderbergland |
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| About main unit | 332 → East Sauerland mountain range |
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| Natural space |
332.4 → Medebacher Bucht |
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| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 8 ′ 43 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 46" E | ||
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| state | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Medebacher Bucht is a natural area located mostly in the Sauerland Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the East Sauerland mountain range (main unit 332), which in the south and east also has a share in the north Hessian district Waldeck-Frankenberg and has the code number 332.4. As a low mountain valley surrounded by wooded heights, it is divided into the Medebacher Inclined Plane around Medebach in the north, the Hallenberg hill country with Hallenberg in the southwest and the Münder Grund in the east and south.
Based on this, Medebacher Bucht also describes a cultural landscape in the Westphalian administrative district of Arnsberg . It is managed by the regional associations Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe as one of 32 North Rhine-Westphalian cultural landscapes under the key number KL 23. In relation to North Rhine-Westphalia, it is significantly more extensive than the natural area of the same name and also includes the Grafschafter Kammer (332.52) further north with the northern districts of Medebach, and also the southeastern Rothaargebirge with the eastern slope of the Ziegenhelle, which drains via Nuhne and Orke to the middle Eder and the entire high side , which frame the Medebach Bay from north to east, including the Winterberg district of Züschen on the Züschener Nuhnekessel in between . The boundaries of the cultural area are thus ultimately identical to those of the catchment area of the two Eder tributaries.
The Medebacher Bucht bird sanctuary is located in the Medebacher Bucht . The west and middle of the Medebacher Bucht are part of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park , but not the Hessian part between Münden and Somplar , which roughly corresponds to the Münder Grund .
Geographical location
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The Medebacher Bucht encompasses the southeastern part of the Hochsauerlandkreis , in particular the urban area of Medebach along with various more southerly districts ( Medelon , Dreislar and Berge ) and the urban area of Hallenberg and all districts ( Liesen , Hesborn and Braunshausen ).
On the Hessian side, in the west of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district , it also includes the core community of Bromskirchen and the Somplar district in the extreme south, the Frankenberg district of Rengershausen in the extreme south-east and the districts of Münden , Neukirchen and Dalwigksthal von Lichtenfels in the extreme east.
Natural structure
The Medebach Bay is structured naturally as follows:
- 332.4 Medebacher Bucht (113 km²)
- 332.40 Medebacher Inclined Plane
- 332.41 Hallenberg hill country
- 332.42 Münder Grund
The Epper Pass (west and north of unit 332.50) is not a nominal part of the Medebacher Bay, but its gateway to the Korbacher Land in the northeast .
From the peaks of the Rothaargebirge bordering in the north-east , the otherwise strikingly flat inclined plane of Medebach gradually falls in a south-easterly direction from around 450 to 350 m above sea level. NHN from. In the south-east and thus in the central east of the bay it reaches the Münder Grund , which stretches to the south-west at heights of only 300 to 350 m on the eastern border of the bay.
The landscape, along with its river valleys, sloping in southeastern directions is crossed and divided into segments by the ribs, humps and ridges of the Hallenberger hill country, which run diagonally in northeastern directions and sometimes reach a height of almost 600 m .
The immediate eastern slopes of the Rothaargebirge slope west of the towns of Bromskirchen , Hallenberg and its neighboring districts of Liesen and Hesborn to the north were formerly used as Driesche and Huten , but are now covered or reforested .
Medebacher Inclined Plane
The Medebach inclined plane contains only Medebach in the center and Medelon in the southwest and a few hamlets like Glindfeld on the western edge. South of the Orke it ends with the northern elevations of the Hallenberg hill country on the watershed to the Nuhne with (from west to east) the Stemmberg (572 m), the Linsenberg (566 m) and the Raunsberg (501 m). The triangular southwestern part to Medelon is by Randbewaldungen left of the incoming to the southeast of Orke Gelängebachs separated somewhat and abuts to the north-west on the Vorhöhen of Winterkasten (662 m) in the Natural Environment High side , Rothaargebirge.
The main part around Medebach is bordered to the west by foothills of the Reetsberg (792 m) and the Schlossberg , also the Hohe Seite natural area, and to the north by a ridge that extends from the Haardt (almost 600 m) over the Heimberg (538 m) North-east moves (natural area Haardt and Wipperberg) and carries the watershed to the Wild Aa , which will only flow into the Orke in the Münder Grund. The wooded edge heights of the Aa, which demarcate the inclined plane to the east (Aarstruth natural area), in contrast, hardly exceed 400 m. They begin directly on the east bank of the Brühne , which flows east parallel to the Medebach of the Orke.
Only a few hills towering up to a maximum of 523 m (Winterkopf) chamber the otherwise flat, undulating inclined plane.
Hallenberg hill country
The Hallenberger Hügelland is a hilly landscape on rocks of the Carboniferous immediately southeast of the high side and east of the foothills of the Ziegenhelle . It contains the villages of Bromskirchen (extreme southwest), Hallenberg (southwest) along with Liesen (west) and Hesborn (northwest) as well as the Medebach districts of Dreislar (northeast) and Berge (extreme northeast). The Nuhne, which flows into the Liese here from Liesen, crosses the southwest near Hallenberg, and from the Bollerberg ( 658 m ) as the most striking Rothaargebirgs-Randberg, the Olfe flows through Hesborn, in an easterly direction to Dreislar and finally in the southeast towards the Münder Grund.
To the south-southeast of the Bollerberg, the hilly country encounters striking mountains on the edge of the Rothaargebirge such as the Sellerberg ( 673 m m; between Liese and Nuhne) and the Heidkopf ( 704 m ; beyond the Nuhne), which belongs to the Ziegenhelle massif ( 816 m m). In the extreme south-west, near Bromskirchen, there is no such height threshold and the natural area of Elbrighaus Forest rises gradually up to Knöbelsroth ( 594 m ).
The mountains and ridges prepare a few partial landscapes from the hill country, of which the Hesborn basin around Hesborn with a corridor to Liesen and the Hallenberger area , which stretches from the Nuhne to the partly wooded hills to the east, are striking.
In the north-west of the Hallenberg hill country, a densely wooded ridge extends from the Stolzenberg ( 624 m ) over the Dasseberg ( 537 m ) and the Stemmberg ( 572 m ) to the Linsenberg ( 566 m ), which, except on the Dasseberg, reaches heights of the Rothaargebirgs edge heights . The Stolzenberg frames a northern bay of the Hesborn basin at the Olfe tributary Talwasser with the NSG Im Tal . In addition to the valley water in the west, the partial ridge from Stolzenberg and Dasseberg is limited in the north by the valley of the Rechtmecke in the north and that of the Dormecke in the southeast, which is followed by the state road to Medelon. Only here only here are there still rocks of the Devonian , as on the high side . Regardless, the forests on the Stolzenberg are clearly different from the transition to the grassland on the Dasseberg ( NSG Am Dasseberg ).
Beyond Dormecke and Landesstraße, the more montane landscape is continued at the Doppelkuppe from Stemmberg and Linsenberg, which joins the valley of the Olfe and the county road to Dreislar to the south and is flanked to the east by the county road Dreislar-Medelon. Beyond the Medeloner Straße, which follows the valley of the Figgemecke (to the Orke) in the direction of Medelon and the Oswinkel (to the Olfe) to Dreislar , the only 501 m high Raunsberg joins, which is also the main mountain of the rest of the hill country left of the Olfe is -. that takes up significantly more area than the two higher mountain ranges in the northwest; on its northeastern edge lies mountains, while Dreislar on its southwestern edge is surrounded on all sides by hills.
On the right of the Olfe there is a similarly flat ridge that reaches 530 m on the Galgenberg in its north . The Galgenberg is a ridge-like ridge ( Kieselschiefer and Grauwacke ) between Liesen and Dreislar, which has no ridge to the north and ends steeply in front of the valley of the Olfe, while it extends south to southeast into a similarly varied hill country with heights always below 500 m passes over like the Raunsberg.
By Hilmesberg ( 643 m ), the east face of Boller, Stolzenberg, Dasseberg, Stemmberg and Berg lens is sharply restricted Hesborner the pool according to the northwest to the east; south of the Linsenberg, after the mouth of the Mahlbach (at 387 m ), it is closed by a noticeable narrow valley, to the south the Galgenberg forms a border immediately south of the Olfetal. Towards the southwest, the watershed between Olfe and Liese on the state road to Liesen sinks to 484 m and forms a corridor to the Lieser sub-basin, which ends at a breakthrough in the Liese to the southwest, immediately after the Sellerbach flows into it at 415 m . Steinschab ( 646 m ) and Sellerberg ( 673 m ) connect to the west ; the Sellerberg foothills flanked by the Sellerbach reaches the Freier Stein , already at the edge in the natural area, 577 m . The floors of the Hesborner Basin are partly loess-containing .
The Hallenberg area is less sharply defined than the Hesborn Basin, especially to the east. Some of the elevations are not or only island-like wooded, and between them the field and grasslands continue accordingly.
Münder Grund
The Münder Grund is a cross trough with Quaternary and Zechstein rocks , which stretches from the middle reaches of the Nuhne to that of the Orke to the northeast. Here are Somplar (to Bromskirchen where Nuhne) Braunshausen (about Hallenberg, on springing in Hallenberg hills Wehle Bach ) Rengershausen (about Frankenberg; at the Nuhne), and finally, all about Lichtenfels, Neukirchen (at the Olfe), Munden ( to Orke, just above the mouth of the Wild Aa) and Dalwigksthal (just below the mouth). To the northwest of Mündens, the Orke valley forms a corridor to the Medebach Inclined Plain. To the northwest, to the Hallenberger Hügelland, as well as to the southeast, to the Breiten Struth, the landscape rises noticeably. Similar to the Breiten Struth, the transition to Aarstruth takes place in the extreme northeast and to Örkschen Schweiz southeast of it, near Dalwigksthal. Only south of the last-mentioned place does the landscape merge again on a narrow corridor into an open landscape, the Sachsenberger Leimestruth, which, however, rises significantly here.
The actual Münder Grund in the northeast with Münden and Neukirchen is separated by the Riedel der Wasserlehne (401 m) from the Somplarer Grund in the southwest, which runs much closer to the Nuhnetal and could be expanded upstream into the Hallenberg lower town. It could be divided again into the narrow Nuhnetal with Quaternary rocks and the more extensive, gently rising Bromskirchener Feld southwest of Somplar on Zechstein.
Epper Pass
While the Münder Grund represents the southeastern gate of the Medebacher Bucht to Frankenberg in the southeast, the Epper Pass connects it to the northeast with Korbach . The state road 617, which starts in Medebach at about 403 m , leads in Hesse as state road 3083, via Hillershausen (junction of the district road 55 to Goddelsheim ) and Eppe , north past Goldhausen , via Lengefeld , where the Korbacher Land is reached and the natural area Epper Pass ends, to the Waldeck district town. At the saddle between Valshagen and Blackwalter, where the Medebacher Schiefe Ebene merges into the Epper Pass, it reaches a good 445 m , still in NRW , in Eppe it falls to 360 m and crosses the Aar . To the west and north of Goldhausen, between the Wipperberg massif, it reaches about 445 m twice more, only to drop below 370 m on the Kuhbach , immediately east of the old town of Korbach .
The Epper Pass is bordered to the north by the Heimberg ( 537.7 m ) and, beyond the Aar, by the Wipperberg massif (up to 543 m ), to the south by the heights of the Aarstruth ( Blackwalter : 472 m ) and beyond the Aar through the Eschenberg ( 535 m ) and the Eisenberg ( 560 m ).
In the natural structure on sheet 111 Arolsen, the Epper Pass is part of the unit 332.50 Eschenberg-Eisenbergrücken (with Epper Pass) . Heimberg and Wipperberg are in turn part of the unit 332.51 Hardt and Wipperberg .
Adjacent natural areas
The Medebacher Bucht is part of the eastern roofing of the Rothaargebirge directly adjacent to the west (main unit 333) with (from south-southwest to north-northeast) Heidkopf ( 703.8 m ), Sellerberg ( 672.6 m ) Bollerberg ( 757.7 m ) and Winterkasten ( 662 , 6 m ). Only the Heidkopf lies on the other side of the Nuhne in the natural area of the Ziegenhelle (333.51), while the other marginal elevations belong to the high side (333.7).
In the north, east, south and south-westerly directions, the Medebach Bay borders on other parts of the eastern Sauerland mountain range , which, unlike the bay itself, are largely forested:
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Grafschafter Bergland (332.5) - in the north
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Hard and Wipperberg (332.51) - up to 630.5 m , north
- Hesseberg ( 596.2 m )
- Bromberg ( 557.3 m )
- Hardt ( 594.4 m )
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Eschenberg-Eisenberg-Ridge (with Epper Pass) (332.50) - up to 562 m
- around the Valshagen transition to the Epper Pass, which connects the Medebacher Bay with the Korbacher Land , in the eastern north
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Hard and Wipperberg (332.51) - up to 630.5 m , north
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Waldstruth (332.3) - east and southeast
- Aarstruth (332.34) - up to 476 m , northeast
- Örksche Schweiz (332.33) - up to 454 m 454, minimal contact point in the east
- Sachsenberger Leimestruth (332.31) - up to approx. 437 m , minimal contact point in the east
- Width Struth (332.30) - up to 504 m , south-east to east-south
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Hinterländer Ederbergland (332.1) - southwest
- Elbrighäuser Wald (332.11) - close to the bay up to 594 m , southwest
The western part of 332.51 (Hardt), which delimits the Medebacher Bucht to the north, is more or less a natural extension of the high side, the foresting of which it continues without any noteworthy dividing line, to the northeast. It drains almost completely via Gelängebach, Medebach and Brühne to the Medebacher Bucht (inclined plane) - the watershed to the Wilden Aa, which drains the Grafschafter Kammer (333.52), is clearly on the north side.
Flowing waters
The Medebacher Bucht lies entirely in the catchment area of the Eder . The rivers Orke (north of the center) and Nuhne (south), together with their tributaries, arise in the Rothaargebirge and flow through the bay in east- south- east directions. The Linspherbach, the third direct tributary of the Eder involved, only has a share in the natural area in the middle course, as a south (western) border river to the Ederbergland hinterland.
The following table lists the most important rivers in the Medebacher Bucht, their length, their catchment area and, if they can be determined (mouth in Hesse), their discharge. It is orographically ordered counterclockwise, starting in the east, whereby all rivers up to the Orke are exactly those of the Inclined Plane. It can also be sorted according to DGKZ and then lists the respective tributaries hierarchically from the source to the mouth:
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Main river |
Length [km] |
Catchment area [km²] |
Discharge (MQ) [l / s] |
Remarks | DGKZ |
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| Wild Aa | Orke (l) | 27.1 | 126.4 | 1,815 | only in the estuary as the eastern border in the natural area | 428-46 |
| Hillershausen Brook | Orke (l) | 4.1 | 4.4 | Epper Pass , flows through Hillershausen | 428-466 | |
| Broth | Orke (l) | 7.8 | 15.5 | Source in the natural space itself; from the middle reaches north-eastern border river; Medebach frames from north to east; NSG Brühnetal , directly on the right at the mouth of the NSG Medebacher Heide | 428-44 | |
| Kortenbeck | Broth (r) | 1.5 | right source brook of the Bruhne from Weddelberg | 428-4414 | ||
| Harbecke | Broth (r) | 7.8 | 7.9 | flows through the north of the settlement of Medebach | 428-442 | |
| Medebach | Orke (l) | 7.9 | 8.3 | Medebacher Stadtbach; NSG Die Erlen on the upper course (above Medebach), NSG Medebach-Frauenbruch on the lower course | 428-432 | |
| Gelängebach | Orke (l) | 7.3 | 14.9 | Estuary between Medebach and Medelon; NSG Gelängebachtal | 428-42 | |
| Eckeringshauser Siepen | Gelängebach (r) | 5.4 | 4.5 | only in the estuary in the natural area | 428-422 | |
| Home corner | Orke (l) | 3.6 | 2.6 | Mouth a little below Medelon; short section runs through the NSG Auf dem Knapp | 428-418 | |
| Orc | Eder (l) | 38.2 | 279.1 | 3,845 | only in the middle course in the natural area; flows through Medelon and Münden | 428-4 |
| Dishes | Orke (r) | 1.8 | Course at the natural boundary | 428-4172 | ||
| Dormecke | Orke (r) | 2.3 | Mouth just below Medelon; Figgemecketal NSG | 428-4174 | ||
| Figgemecke | Orke (r) | 1.3 | Mouth just below Medelon; Figgemecketal NSG | 428-4176 | ||
| Bribe | Orke (r) | 1.3 | Mountains by the stream; NSG Berger Bachtal | 428-4392 | ||
| Schweigersbach | Orke (r) | 5.5 | 8.1 | runs entirely in the natural area, mouth directly below Mündens; NSG An der Gemeine on the upper reaches (in NRW) | 428-452 | |
| Holzenbach | Schweigersbach (r) | 1.6 | 1.9 | entirely in Hessen; frames the width of Struth around the Homberg | 428-4522 | |
| The Oswinkel | Olfe (l) | 1.8 | 2.5 | Estuary in Dreislar | 428-262 | |
| Mahlbach | Olfe (l) | 2.4 | NSG Mahlbach and oil fetal system | 428-2618 | ||
| Valley water | Olfe (l) | 2.2 | Estuary in Hesborn; NSG Im Tal (mostly on the high side) | 428-2612 | ||
| Olfe | Nuhne (l) | 11.7 | 22.4 | 299 | flows through Hesborn , Dreislar and Neukirchen ; NSG Mahlbach- und Ölfetal system , NSG Olfetal | 428-26 |
| Unkenbach | Olfe (r) | 2.2 | 3.5 | NSG Unkenbachtal | 428-2652 | |
| Lohgraben | Olfe (r) | 3.6 | 5.2 | Mouth immediately below Neukirchen; NSG Lohgraben-Herzgraben in the upper reaches (NRW) | 428-266 | |
| Heidebach | Wehlenbach (l) | 1.8 | runs entirely in the natural space | 428-2564 | ||
| Wehlenbach | Nuhne (l) | 5.5 | 6.8 | runs entirely in the natural space; flows through Braunshausen | 428-256 | |
| Nägelbach | Nuhne (l) | 1.2 | 428-2552 | |||
| Dreisbach | Nuhne (l) | 4.5 | 4.3 | runs entirely in the natural space; NSG Dreisbachtal | 428-254 | |
| Sengelnbach | Dreisbach (r) | 1.1 | 428-2542 | |||
| Lehmbach | Nuhne (l) | 1.2 | 428-25312 | |||
| Liese | Nuhne (l) | 7.0 | 9.1 | flows through Liesen ; NSG Liesetal on the upper reaches, mostly on the high side | 428-24 | |
| Herbesbach | Liese (r) | 1.1 | only mouth, almost completely high side | 428-242 | ||
| Sellbach | Liese (r) | 1.6 | Mouth just before the breakthrough, on the southwest edge of the Hesborn Basin | 428-2492 | ||
| Nuhne | Eder (l) | 156.7 | 2,662 | flows through Hallenberg , Somplar and Rengershausen ; NSG Nuhnewiesen from below Hallenberg to the state border | 428-2 | |
| Heidebach | Nuhne (r) | 1.8 | Estuary in the north of Hallenberg; muzzle only | 428-2512 | ||
| Welfe | Nuhne (r) | 6.3 | 7.9 | Estuary in Hallenberg; muzzle only | 428-252 | |
| Bach from the Dalwigsborn | Nuhne (r) | 3.2 | Estuary in Somplar | 428-5392 | ||
| Fickelbach | Linspherbach (l) | 4.0 | 2.8 | flows through Bromskirchen | 428-182 | |
| Linspherbach | Eder (l) | 18.3 | 33.1 | 566 | only in the middle reaches as a southern border river in the natural area | 428-18 |
mountains
Although primarily a valley basin, the Medebach Bay, especially in the middle of the Hallenberg hill country and in the north of the Medebach Inclined Plain , has significant internal elevations. While the Stolzenberg (624 m) is only a branch of the Bollerberg-Südgipfels Teukelberg, the Stemmberg (572 m), Linsenberg (566 m) and Raunsberg (501 m) adjoining the Nuhne-Orke watershed in the north of the Hallenberg hill country. each gap heights of 57 to 73 meters and are therefore very independent as mountains - whereby the lowest of the named, the Raunsberg, is the main mountain of the segment between the Orke and the Medelon – Dreislar – Neukirchen road. The segment between Olfe and Nuhne , which takes up more than half of the area of the hill country, is dominated by the Galgenberg (530 m; 46 m high notch to the Bollerberg). In the Medebach Inclined Plane, the hills Kahlen (493 m), Winterkopf (523 m), Weddelberg (498 m) and Valshagen (508 m) are each relatively independent at heights of 42 to 58 m (Kahlen).
For a better overview, the following listings, from southwest to northeast, are divided into the western edge heights on the right (west) of the Nuhne, the significantly higher western, northern and eastern edge mountains of the Hesborn Basin, the Galgenberg group on the right of the Olfe, the Raunsberg- Group to the left of the Olfe and to the right of the Orke and mountains of the Medebach Inclined Plane to the left of the Orke. The mountains are always sorted according to the height in meters (m) above sea level, if necessary the height of the reference chart is given according to the old map.
Western edge mountains
The following elevations of the Hallenberger hill country are to the right (west) of the Nuhne :
- Langer Lon ( 516.8 m ) - outermost mountain in the southwest of the Medebacher Bay, between Hallenberg and Bromskirchen
- Lichtenberg ( 511.5 m ) - outermost mountain in the southwest of the Medebacher Bucht, south of the Langen Lon, immediately southwest of the Bromskirchen
The foothills of the Ziegenhelle and the Wild Struth also protrude into the Hallenberg hill country, but it is Riedel without its own peaks, which is why the short list is limited to the foothills of the Elbrighaus forest .
(Edge) mountains of the Hesborn Basin
The following mountains frame the Hesborn Basin from west to north to east or lie in it:
In the background some other mountains on the edge of the Hohe Seite as well as the Kahle Pön - see picture description page
- Stolzenberg ( 623.7 m ) - northwestern Randberg north of Hesborn ; Rothaargebirge foothills near the bollerberg
- Free stone ( 577 m ; notch to Sellerberg at 543.8 m ) - western edge mountain, west of Liesen
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Stemmberg ( 572.2 m ; Scharte zu Stolzenberg and Bollerberg at 498.9 m ) - northeastern Randberg, southwest of Medelon ; NSG Stemmberg and NSG Rüdenscheid on the southern slope
- Southeast summit ( 543.9 m ; notch at 534.9 m )
- Northwest summit ( 519.2 m ; notch at 494.2 m )
- Linsenberg ( 566.1 m ; Scharte zum Stemmberg at 509.8 m ) - eastern Randberg, west-northwest of Dreislar and immediately southeast of the Stemmberg; NSG Hollenhaus at the south foot
- Bückling ( 542.2 m ) - inner elevation of the Hesborn basin, Stolzenberg foothills immediately northeast of Hesborn
- Dasseberg ( 537.1 m ) - northern edge height , immediately east of the Stolzenberg; NSG Dasseberg
Galgenberg Group
The following elevations of the Hallenberger hill country are on the right of the Olfe and on the right of the Nuhne :
In the background on the left half of the picture the Elbrighäuser Wald (up to 600 m ) with Bromskirchen on the northeast slope and to the right behind the knolls north ( 590 m ) and northwest ( 592 m ) of Neuludwigsdorf ; right branch of the Northeast thereof Wilden Struth with the upper corner ( 649.3 m ) directly south of the roof opening and above the Elsoff and, highlighted, Big ( 668 m ) and 's Small ( 669.1 m ) Hohenstein (right of center); to the right of this, the southern foothills of the Ziegenhelle with the Heidkopf ( 704.1 m , far right). Before the latter, the hill under the Homböhl .
- Galgenberg ( 530.4 m ; Scharte zu Hilmesberg and Bollerberg at 484.4 m ) - north of the group, southwest of the Linsenberg, east of Liesen; Main summit of a ridge between Liesen and Dreislar; NSG Galgenberg at the summit and NSG Am Kramenzelloch southeast of it
- Lieser Stuhl ( 528.9 m + chair height) - west summit of the Galgenberg, east above Liesens
- Königsloh ( 514.9 m ) - the north-western end of the Galgenberg ridge, immediately northeast of Liesen
- Homböhl ( 488.1 m ) - southwest, at the transition to the Hallenberger Gefilde; northwest of Braunshausen and south of the Galgenberg ridge; NSG Homböhl on the summit and two-part NSG Mausenloch on the southeastern pre-summit Unter dem Homböhl ( 455.6 m ); further south-east of NSG Steinschlade
- Siegelsberg ( 471.8 m ) - in the Hallenberger area in the southwest, northeast of Hallenberg , west of the Homböhl; NSG biotope complex east of Hallenberg on the south-western slopes
- Heideknipp ( 468.8 m ) - northeast of the Hombühl and southeast of the Galgenberg, north of Braunshausen; NSG biotope complex southeast of Vogelshöhe on the northeast slope and north of it
- Under the Homböhl ( 455.6 m ) - southeastern pre-summit of the Hombühl on the edge of the Hallenberg area; NSG Mausenloch ; further south-east of NSG Steinschlade
- Nordhelle ( 454 m ) - northeast summit of the Galgenberg ridge, immediately southwest of Dreislar ; NSG Nordhelle on the southeast slope
- Müller's Kirchhoff ( 441.6 m ) - southeast of the group, northeast of Braunshausen; NSG hedge landscape Braunshausen
- Wache ( 432.1 m ) - southern edge hill of the Hallenberg hill country, in the Hallenberg area between Hallenberg and Somplar ; Southeast spur of the Siegelberg; NSG guard
- Wasserlehne ( 400.9 m ) - extreme southeast of the group, dividing threshold between the actual Münder Grund and the Somplarer Grund in the southwest, northeast of Rengershausen
Raunsberg Group
The following elevations of the Hallenberg hill country are to the left of the Olfe to the right of the Orke and also to the east of the Medelon – Dreislar district road:
- Raunsberg ( 501.1 m at the western summit " Im Espe "; notch to Linsenberg at 433.4 m ) - northwest of the group, northeast of Linsenberg, southeast of Medelon and north of Dreislar; NSG Raunsberg on the south slope, NSG Ziegenhardt-Heideköppel on the north slope
- Lückenkopf ( 480 m ) - east-southeast of the Raunsberg, southwest of Berge ; NSG Lückenkopf on the southwest slope
- Gilsterkopf ( 472.8 m ) - only 450 meters south of the Lückenkopf
- Homberg ( 462.9 m ) - east-northeast of the Raunsberg, west of Berge; NSG Homberg on the east slope
- Rüggen ( 461 m ) - west of the group, east of Dreislar ; NSG Rüggen on the summit and western slope
- Ziegenhardt ( 442.9 m ) - northernmost hill of the Hallenberger hill country and the group, northwest of Berge; NSG Ziegenhardt east of the summit, NSG Ziegenhardt-Heideköppel at the southwest foot
- Ziegenberg ( 417.6 m ) - south of the Rüggen, southeast of Deislar; two-part NSG Ziegenberg on the southeast slope
- Waiting point ( 416 m ) - eastern edge mountain of the Hallenberger hill country and the group, southwest of Münden ; the only "hill" in Hessen
Elevations of the Medebacher Inclined Plane
The following elevations of the Medebach Bay are in the Medebach Inclined Plane and thus to the left of the Orke :
- Winterkopf ( 524.9 m ; Scharte zur Hardt at 478.9 m ) - seam of the inclined plane to Hardt, extreme north, north of Weddelberg
- Valshagenberg ( Valshagen ; 508.1 m at the south summit; Scharte zu Hardt at 466.1 m ) - immediately before the Epper Pass in the eastern extreme north, east of the Winterkopf
- Bärberg ( 511.1 m ; Scharte zum Bollenberg (front height of the winter box ) at 492.8 m ) - southwestern edge hill of the inclined plane, northwest of Medelon, NSG Bärberg on the southern slope
- Weddelberg ( 498.3 m ; notch to Winterkopf at 455.2 m ) - south of Winterkopf, north of Medebach
- Kahlen ( 493.2 m ; Scharte to Hesseberg at 435.1 m ) - immediately west of Medebach, inclined plane; NSG Gelängeberg on the southwest slope of the southern continuation to the Gelängebach
- Steinberg ( 470.1 m ) - Epper Pass immediately northeast of the bay in the back of the Valshagen; north of Hillershausen
- On the Knapp ( 428.1 m ) - southwest of the Inclined Plane, northwest of Medelon; NSG auf dem Knapp , NSG Auf dem Schleim on a narrow tributary valley on the eastern slope
Cultural history
Territorially, the core zone of Medebach Bay belonged to the Cologne Sauerland in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, like the areas bordering it to the west. Since 1815 it belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia .
The agricultural use is fragmented. Architecturally, agricultural buildings can be assigned to the Hessian building types. The remote location away from the traffic flows is primarily characterized by agriculture and forestry, the settlement structure by hamlets and small villages . Crossroads are typical landscape elements .
Localities
A total of around 13,400 inhabitants live in the villages of Medebacher Bucht, of which around 44% in various districts of Medebach, 34% in the Hallenberg districts, 13% in the two main districts of Bromskirchens, 7% in two districts of Lichtenfels and 3% in one Outskirts of Frankenberg.
The following list is alphabetical, initially according to the five municipalities, within which then according to parts of the municipality. The number of inhabitants, the location within the Medebacher Bucht and, separated by a semicolon, the location of the Medebacher Bucht within the respective municipality marker are listed.
(Total population figures only refer to the districts of Medebacher Bucht - population figures with an asterisk (*) are therefore only partial population figures for the community!)
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Bromskirchen (1713 * EW, extreme south; northeast of the municipality mark with the most important parts of the municipality)
- Bromskirchen (1246 inhabitants)
- Somplar (467 PE)
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Frankenberg (417 * EW, extreme southeast; minimally in the extreme northwest of the district)
- Rengershausen (417 PE)
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Hallenberg (4502 inhabitants, southwest center to southwest; eastern half of the district with all populated districts)
- Braunshausen (350 PE)
- Hallenberg (2372 PE)
- Hesborn (1000 PE)
- Liesen (780 PE)
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Lichtenfels (1092 * EW, extreme east; extreme west of the district)
- Dalwigksthal (184 PE)
- Münden (420 PE)
- Neukirchen (488 inhabitants)
- Medebach (5851 * EW, center to north; roughly the south (east) half of the district)
European bird sanctuary Medebacher Bucht
In the cultural area of Medebacher Bucht, the European bird sanctuary (abbreviated bird sanctuary), under NR. DE-4717-401, shown in the Natura 2000 protected area system of the European Union . With an area of 138.72 km² it covers 75.3% of the cultural area of Medebacher Bucht. In Medebacher Bucht and Grafschafter Kammer only the populated areas are left out, the natural area Hohe Seite in the Rothaargebirge is almost completely included with Bollerberg , Hoher Seite , Winterkasten and the southeast flanks of Reetsberg and Schlossberg . To the southwest the protected area extends to (near Hallenberg) or up to about one and a half kilometers before (near Züschen) the B 236 .
The reason for this designation is that some rare bird species with larger numbers of breeding pairs can be found there. This was due in particular, the presence of black stork , honey buzzard , red kite , boreal owl , kingfisher , gray-headed woodpecker , red-backed shrike , shrike and meadow pipit . There are also numerous other rare animal species such as quail , partridge , Mühlkoppe , brook lamprey , swallowtail , ducat fire butterfly and warty bite . Floristic rarities such as globe flower , farm mustard and heather carnation can also be found in the Medebach Bay. Entire habitat complexes are of European importance here, such as mountain hay meadows, oat meadows and mountain heaths.
In 1990 the Association for Nature and Bird Protection in the Hochsauerlandkreis (VNV) proposed to the International Council for Bird Protection that the Medebach Bay be designated. In 1998 it was designated as a bird sanctuary. In the 1990s, the VNV had 4 to 5 breeding pairs (BP) black stork (10–15% of the NRW population), 20 BP red kite (5–10% of the NRW population), 300 to 500 BP red-backed killer (15–20%) of the NRW population), 30 BP gray shrike (30–50% of the NRW population), 60 whinchat (20% of the NRW population) and 30 BP gray woodpecker (3–5% of the NRW population) detected. At the request of the VNV, the NRW Foundation bought land in Piezfeld and Gelängebachtal in the 1990s. In 1997 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia made DM 2.5 million available to improve the habitat of the gray shrike. These funds were approved over five years. The implementation of the project was in the hands of the Biological Station Hochsauerlandkreis .
From 2005 to 2009 a LIFE project of the European Union ran in the bird sanctuary Medebacher Bucht . The project sponsor on site was the Biological Station Hochsauerlandkreis.
During the LIFE project, water renaturation was carried out on the rivers Nuhne , Orke and Gelänge . Over 1000 meters of bank reinforcement could be removed from the Nuhne so that natural bank and bed structures can develop. At Nuhne, Gelänge and Orke a total of 74 weirs were rebuilt and are now passable again for fish and other small organisms.
In the nature reserve Nuhnewiesen an observation tower was built. Four nature trails in "highlights" of the area have been created and multimedia exhibitions have been set up in Medebach and Hallenberg.
With the hay grass seed , with cuttings from the Medebach Bay, the station inoculated formerly species-poor locations. Two double-knife cutter bars, which were purchased from project funds, can be loaned to interested farmers upon request from the biological station. On the Hilmesberg near Hesborn , large areas of unrelated and monotonous spruce stands were removed. The surfaces were inoculated with heather seeds in a special injection process. The two kinds of berries blueberry and cranberry were autochthonous abgeplaggten Soden applied.
In 2019 the Bird Protection Action Plan (VMP) of the EU Bird Protection Area Medebacher Bucht was published by the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was found that since the designation there has been a decline in many bird species in the bird sanctuary as well, as there was a strong intensification of agriculture in the Medebach Bay. The 'Bird Protection Action Plan' lists measures to stop the decline in bird species in the protected area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- ↑ Landscape profile Medebacher Bucht of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d GeoViewer of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ( notes )
- ^ Map and description in the Environmental Atlas of Hesse
- ↑ TIM online
- ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ^ Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority (ed.): Landscape plan Hallenberg, Meschede 2004.
- ↑ Johannes Schröder: Scandal over the bird sanctuary "Medebacher Bucht". In: Irrgeister. 14, 1997, pp. 4-7.
- ↑ Medebacher Bucht - building block for Natura 2000 , on medebacher-bucht.de
- ↑ Bird protection plan Medebacher Bucht
General sources
- BfN - map services
- Landscape profile Medebacher Bucht of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )