Middle Main Valley

Middle Main Valley
Systematics according to	Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Main unit group	13 → Main Franconian plates
Natural space	133 → Middle Main Valley
state	Bavaria
Country	Germany

When Medium Maintal which is natural space over-head unit 133 within the main unit group Mainfränkische plates designated (main unit group 13). It is a section of the Main Valley between Wipfeld (south of Schweinfurt) and Karlstadt-Gambach , in which the Main is cut 100–120 m into the limestone of the shell limestone . The middle main valley covers most of the main triangle . Depending on the geological-tectonic requirements and morphological development, both or at least one side of the valley are steep and craggy slopes over the course of the Middle Main Valley, in which the limestone often forms steep walls. The valley floor of the (partly semi-open) Kastental valley, which is typical of limestone landscapes, is created by meandering and is at least 1 km wide. The shape of the valley is in contrast to the well-cleared Schweinfurt basin in the Keuper rock above and the more kerbtal-shaped incision in the rocks of the red sandstone of the Spessart below. Viticulture is practiced almost everywhere on the favorably exposed slopes that are not populated.

Natural structure

The Middle Main Valley is naturally structured as follows:

• (for 13 Main Franconian plates )
  • 133 Middle Main Valley
    • 133.0 (no name)
      • 133.00 Karlstadt Main Valley
      • 133.01 Zellingen-Thüngersheim valley widening
      • 133.02 Maintal near Veitshöchheim
      • 133.03 Würzburg basin
      • 133.04 Würzburg-Ochsenfurter Maintal
      • 133.05 Kitzinger Maintal
      • 133.06 Schwarzacher valley widening
      • 133.07 Volkacher Mainschleife
      • 133.08 Obereisenheim-Wipfelder Maintal

literature

• Karl-Albert Habbe: The natural space units on sheet 153 Bamberg 1: 200,000 - A bundle of problems and a suggested structure. In: Mitteilungen der Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft Vol. 50/51 for 2003/2004 . Erlangen 2004. pp. 55-102.
• Horst Mensching, Günter Wagner: The natural spatial units on sheet 152 Würzburg (= geographical land survey 1: 200,000 natural spatial structure of Germany) . Bad Godesberg 1963.
• Johannes Müller: Basic features of the natural geography of Lower Franconia . Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1996.

Web links

Commons : Mittleres Maintal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Various authors: Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural spatial units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps
   • Sheet 140: Schweinfurt (Brigitte Schwenzer 1968; 43 pages)
   • Sheet 152: Würzburg (Horst Mensching, Günter Wagner 1963; 45 pages)