Lower Bavarian hill country

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Lower Bavarian hill country
surface 10.378.1dep1
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Greater region 1st order 02–06 →
Alpine foothills
Greater region 2nd order 04–06 →
Northern Alpine Foreland
Greater region 3rd order Lower Bavarian hill country
Main unit group 06
Natural area characteristics
Landscape type Tertiary hill country
Geographical location
Coordinates 48 ° 37 '28 "  N , 12 ° 19' 58"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '28 "  N , 12 ° 19' 58"  E
Lower Bavarian hill country (Alpine foothills and Alps)
Lower Bavarian hill country
Location Lower Bavarian hill country
state Bavaria

The German share of the tertiary hills engaging Under Bavarian hill country , often synonymous or nearly meanings that vary Niederbayerisches hills called, takes up a large part of the area of the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Bavaria one, but also includes areas in the north of Upper Bavaria and the south of the Upper Palatinate . To the northeast, the Lower Bavarian hill country is bounded by the Bavarian Forest , to the northwest by the Franconian Alb , west by the Danube-Iller-Lech-Platte and south to southeast by the Isar-Inn gravel slabs , which are especially in the southeast directly with the valley of the lower Inn connect.

In the natural division of Germany by the Federal Institute for Regional Studies , the Lower Bavarian hill country was identified as a main unit group (code number 06).

In the western part of the Lower Bavarian hill country lies the Hallertau , the world's largest hop-growing area , in the (south) east the Lower Bavarian spa triangle .

Delimitation of neighboring landscapes

The two northern neighboring landscapes, the Bavarian Forest ( low mountain range threshold ) and the Franconian Alb ( south-west German stepland ) each belong to other large regions of the 1st to 2nd order.

In contrast, the landscapes that frame the hill country to the west, south and southeast also belong to the (northern) Alpine foothills , but consist of Pleistocene river gravel and old moraines , while the lower Bavarian hill country consists mainly of sediments from sea and freshwater molasses and pliocene river gravel builds up. The bounding valleys of Lech (west) and Inn (south to south-east) already differ significantly from those of the local landscape, which is mainly segmented by the valley of the lower Isar .

Very similar to the Lower Bavarian hill country, but separated by the Inn Valley, is the Hausruckviertel mountain and hill country on Austrian soil . In the Burghausen sheet of detailed classification 1: 200,000 , which extends far into Austria , this eastern part of the tertiary hill country was also numerically sorted as the main unit 065.

Under vs. Lower Bavarian hill country

In the Lower Bavarian hill country near Brombach

In 1953 the Lower Bavarian hill country, which is self-contained in terms of natural space , especially in relief, was described in the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany by the Federal Institute for Regional Studies .

The term sub Bayern in the big landscape roughly means "the lower reaches of the right Danube -Zuflüsse between Lech and Inn " , which is more appropriate to the hill country as Niederbayerisches hills as Lower Bavaria is an administrative region and the lower Bavarian hills and the administrative districts of Upper Bavaria and Upper Palatinate touched.

Although the term Lower Bavarian Upland Considered confines of this treated landscape accurately, today the term is Niederbayerisches hills encountered at least as frequent and mostly synonymously importance - in particular, he referred to a Bavarian tourist region that is not limited to Lower Bavaria.

Regardless of this, depending on how it is mentioned, the term Niederbayerisches Hügelland also explicitly (and excluding other parts) refer to the Lower Bavarian part of the hill country.

Natural structure

The Lower Bavarian hill country is structured as follows (structured from west to east and, in the second line, from north to south; important locations are listed below the two-digit main unit):

The units 065 and 066, which lie entirely on Austrian soil, were only introduced in 1979 on sheet Burghausen of fine structure, on whose sheet area 065 is at least half of it. The Hausruckviertel mountain and hill country as Upper Austrian part of the Tertiary hill country also represents the natural south-eastern continuation of the Lower Bavarian hill country. In contrast, the Traun-Danube-Enns gravel plates continue the Isar-Inn gravel plates to the east and should therefore have been numbered under 05 .

The Lower Isartal the Isar separates the south en location (east) Isar-Inn-hills from the Danube River Isar-hills in the northwest, in turn, through the Danube valley on the old Bavarian Donaumoos of the Franconian Alb is disconnected. In the far north-east lies the Dungau on the right Donauaue.

The western border of the Danube-Isar hill country to the Danube-Iller-Lech-Platte extends to just before the Lech valley , its southern border to the Isar-Inn gravel plates follows in the Amper valley from Dachau to the confluence with the Isar near Moosburg , whereby Freising, located on the left bank of the Isar and thus on the right of the Amper, lies on the natural border.

In the southeast, the Isar-Inn hill country abuts the valley of the lower Inn , which is no longer included.

Allocation according to BfN

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) has combined the Lower Bavarian hill country in a less common, slight modification of the structure of the Institute for Regional Studies with the Isar-Inn gravel slabs (05) to form the unit D65 Lower Bavarian hill country and Isar-Inn gravel slabs. Although this combination creates a compact area, it is not compatible with the natural spatial properties of both landscapes. According to the Institute for Regional Studies, both are independent large regions of the 3rd order . Ultimately, geologically, the Isar-Inn plates are more of a - narrower - eastern continuation of the Danube-Iller-Lech plate .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany , first delivery - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen 1953; updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960
  2. ↑ The term Niederbayerisches Hügelland is quite common, but is not always used in a uniform sense. Since it bears the name of the Lower Bavaria administrative region , it is sometimes only understood as the Lower Bavarian part of the large landscape. The z. B. opposed to the tourism side of the Upper Palatinate district government , which apparently uses the term independent of the government district for the entire landscape, which is essentially in Lower Bavaria, but also enters the areas of Upper Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate.
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Weichhart: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 182/183 Burghausen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1979. → Online map (PDF, 6.2 MB)
  4. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

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