North Saxon plateau and hill country
| North Saxon plateau and 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 | North Saxon plateau and hill country | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| state | Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The North Saxon plateau and hill country is a natural area in Saxony . In the hierarchically structured system of natural areas in Saxony , it is described in the rank of a macro geochore and assigned to the natural region of the Saxon loess region .
Demarcation
The approximately 970 km² natural area extends at an altitude of mostly 130 to 160 m approximately between the cities of Grimma in the west and Riesa in the east. As an old moraine landscape , it is characterized by flat, undulating to hilly moraine plates from the Elster and Saale Cold Ages and in this respect resembles the neighboring macrogeochore Leipziger Land to the west , but in contrast to this it has a far larger number of solid rock penetrations with heights of over 300 m and thus an overall more moving relief . In the east, the 20 to 30 m high step to the Elbe-Elster lowlands forms a striking border. The natural area receives its uniform character from the surface cover made up of Aeolian sediments from the Vistula glaciation , the distribution and composition of which also establishes the limitation to the north and south. While thin sand loess predominates in the North Saxon plateau and hill country, thicker blankets of loess and loess derivatives can be found south in the central Saxon loess hill country , the onset of which is clearly visible in the landscape in the form of the so-called loess edge step . The Pleistocene plates of the Düben-Dahlener Heide natural area to the north, which are surmounted by edged moraines, belong to the Saxon-Niederlausitzer Heideland natural region .
Natural structure
The following sub-units (mesogeochores) are distinguished in the North Saxon plateau and hill country, primarily on the basis of the characteristics of landscape genesis:
- Hohburg mountains and plateaus
- Wermsdorf panels and sleepers
- Oschatzer hill country
- Riesa loess plates
- Grimmaer Mulde hill country
- Brandis hill country
- Wurzener gravel plates
For detailed classification in microgeochores, see the list of natural spatial units in Saxony .
The outline draft of the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany from the 1950s assigned the forerunners of these natural areas as so-called main units to a much broader, geomorphologically based main unit group :
- 46 SAXON HILL COUNTRY (INCLUDING LEIPZIGER LAND)
- 460 Dresden Elbe Valley area
- 461 Lusatian plate
- 462 Grossenhainer care
- 463 Central Saxon loess area
- 464 Oschatz hill country
- 465 Grimma Porphyry Hills
- 466 Altenburg-Zeitzer loess area
- 467 Leipziger Land
As early as 1960, Ernst Neef published an alternative draft that introduced the term “Saxon field zone”. The progress in knowledge and the further developed or even created database led in the following decades to various changes both in the drawing of boundaries and in the hierarchy. Some former main units such as the Oschatzer Hügelland are now classified as meso geochoric .
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- K. Mannsfeld, R.-U. Syrbe (Ed.): Natural spaces in Saxony. with map supplement Natural structure of Saxony. (= Research on German regional studies. Volume 257). German Academy for Regional Studies, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-88143-078-4 .
- Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV Dresden: Research of the natural spaces and natural space potentials of the Free State of Saxony , interactive map, to view the macro geochores in the register “Subjects”, expand the folder “Natural spaces”, activate the check box “Macro geochores”
- K. Mannsfeld, O. Bastian, A. Kaminski, W. Katzschner, M. Röder, R.-U. Syrbe, B. Winkler: Landscapes in Saxony. (= Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV, special issue ). 2005, DNB 997529431 .
- Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture (Ed.): Nature reserves in Saxony. Central brochure dispatch of the Saxon State Government, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-932627-17-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Neef: The natural spatial structure of Saxony , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter, special edition, 1960