Central Vogtland hill country

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The Mittelvogtland hill country is a landscape in the southwest of Saxony and, to a somewhat smaller extent, in the northeast of Bavaria and in the southeast of Thuringia . According to the handbook of the natural structure of Germany , it represents an 817 km² natural main unit of the main unit group Vogtland .

The inner-Saxon classification of natural areas in Saxony of the Saxon Academy of Sciences includes the landscape in the over-unit of Saxon uplands and low mountain ranges , while the inner- Thuringian classification of the natural areas of Thuringia includes the small Thuringian parts of the East Thuringian slate mountains – Vogtland unit .

The Kuppenland stretches as a central part of the natural Vogtland from southwest Werdau in southwest directions over Plauen to the urban area of Hof . Its north lies with the southeast of the district of Greiz in Thuringia , its central part, which occupies most of the area, with the east of the Vogtland district in Saxony and its south with the town and district of Hof in Bavaria .

Location and limits

Major cities of the Middle Vogtländer hill country are in the northeast of Greiz and Netzschkau and on the eastern Interface to Upper Vogtland located Reichenbach and Mylau . The central place is Plauen , from where, to the southwest, initially only villages that are united to form large communities and administrative communities connect, until Hof is reached in the extreme southwest .

The length of the hill country in northeastern directions is about 52 km with only 8 to, in the extreme southwest, a maximum of 22 km width. The natural boundaries to the East Thuringian-Vogtland plateau in the north west and to the Upper Vogtland in the south east run rather unspectacularly along the long sides.

In the middle of the urban area of ​​Hof is the interface between the Franconian Forest , the Münchberg plateau and the Mittelvogtländer Kuppenland.

The Mittelvogtländer Kuppenland is traversed in a southeast-northwest direction, in the south by the Saale between Hof and Hirschberg , in the center by the Weißen Elster near Plauen and in the north by the lower reaches of its tributaries Trieb (together with the Pöhl dam ) and Göltzsch .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : 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)
  2. ↑ Map of the natural areas in Saxony ( Memento from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at www.umwelt.sachsen.de (PDF, 859 kB)
  3. ^ Walter Hiekel, Frank Fritzlar, Andreas Nöllert and Werner Westhus: The natural spaces of Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), Thuringian Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment . 2004, ISSN  0863-2448 . → Natural area map of Thuringia (TLUG) - PDF; 260 kB → Maps by district (TLUG)