Mulde loess hill country
| Mulde loess hill country | |||
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| Systematics according to | Natural areas and natural area potentials of the Free State of Saxony | ||
| Natural region | Saxon loess field | ||
| Macro geochore | Mulde loess hill country | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| state | Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Mulde-Lösshügelland is a natural area in central Saxony . The classification of the natural areas in Saxony , which is currently relevant in the landscape planning of the state, shows the Mulde-Lösshügelland in the hierarchical rank of a macrogeochore within the natural region of the Saxon loess field .
Location and features
In the above structure, the natural area is assigned an area of 1363.15 km². 1 The landscape is characterized by flat, undulating to hilly plateaus that have only a slight relief . The plateau areas are mainly at an altitude of 280 to 380 m and have their highest elevation in the Rabenstein ridge with the Totenstein ( 483 m above sea level ). They are separated by 50 to 80 m and sometimes even up to 120 m deep notch valleys cut by the rivers coming down from the Ore Mountains . In particular, the rivers Zwickauer Mulde , Chemnitz , Zschopau , Striegis , Freiberger Mulde , Bobritzsch and Triebisch shape the landscape here.
The neighboring natural areas are the Ore Mountains Basin in the (south) west, the East Thuringian Loess Hills in the (north) west , the Central Saxon Loess Hills in the north and the Eastern Ore Mountain Foreland in the east , all of which belong to the Saxon Loess region. In the southeast it borders on the Eastern Ore Mountains Nature Region Saxon mountains and highlands .
Subdivision
The Mulde-Loess hill country is divided into nine mesogeochores:
- Rochlitzer Muldeland (150.53 km²)
- Mittweida loess plateaus (363.73 km²)
- Zellwald-Mulde-Striegis plateaus (348.7 km²)
- Muldeland near Freiberg (72.39 km²)
- Triebischtal (46.11 km²)
- Limbach-Oberfrohna Loess Hill Country (132.23 km²)
- Rabensteiner mountain range (50.73 km²)
- Wilsdruffer Loess Plateaus (72.23 km²)
- Waldenburg-Peniger Muldeland (126.52 km²)
These in turn are subdivided into a total of 97 microgeochores (see list of natural spatial units in Saxony ).
Administratively, the Mulde-Lösshügelland natural area extends from the east of the Zwickau district and especially over the northern half of the central Saxony district . There are only small areas in the districts of Meissen and Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains and in Dresden .
geology
Practically the entire granulite mountains and their slate mantle, the Hainichener depression, large parts of the Frankenberg intermediate mountains and the Nossen-Wilsdruffer slate mountains form the subsoil. The area is characterized by a 2–5 and in places up to 10 m thick Aeolian loess cover. Solid rock appears almost only in the deeper cut valleys. The Rochlitz porphyry is remarkable .
Vegetation and land use
The plateaus are mainly used as arable land, with the proportion of grassland increasing towards the south. The river valleys are usually covered with forests.
Remarks
literature
- Karl Mannsfeld, Ralf-Uwe Syrbe: Natural areas in Saxony with a map supplement "Natural spatial structure of Saxony", In: Research on German regional studies. Volume 257, German Academy for Regional Studies, self-published, Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88143-078-4
- Friedemann Klenke (Red.): Nature reserves in Saxony . Ed .: Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture. Dresden 2008, ISBN 3-932627-17-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nature reserves in Saxony. 2008, p. 210
Web links
- Interactive map research of natural spaces and natural space potentials of the Free State of Saxony at Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV, Dresden (www.lfz-dresden.de)
- Profile of the Mulde-Lösshügelland natural area , Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology
- Landscape profile (ID No. 45000) Mulde-Lösshügelland of the BfN , accessed on 23 August 2019