Upper Vogtland (natural area)
The natural spatial Upper Vogtland is a 766 km² large landscape on German soil in south-west Saxony , and to a lesser extent in north-west Czech Republic and north-east Bavaria . It forms in the same structure of the Handbook of natural physical Germany the eastern main unit of the main unit group Vogtland and differs from the traditional as Upper Vogtland countryside designated as the highest elevations not be counted because they were already the east ensuing from natural spatial vision Westerzgebirge attributable are. In particular, most of the parts of the Elster Mountains (according to common border demarcation) belong to it, but not its extreme east with the highest elevations.
The inner-Saxon division of natural spaces in Saxony of the Saxon Academy of Sciences includes the landscape as part of the over-unity of Saxon uplands and low mountain ranges .
The Upper Vogtland, which is up to 58 km long in north-south direction, stretches from the Erzgebirge basin southwest of Zwickau to the south-southwest to the edge of the Fichtelgebirge . Apart from the extreme north of the Zwickau district , it is practically exclusively in the Vogtland district (also in Saxony ) . However, its southeast continues practically seamlessly into the neighboring Czech Republic with the Elster Mountains and neighboring landscapes , from where a narrow strip of land around the town of Aš forms the interface between the Vogtland and Fichtel Mountains.
Location and limits
In the Upper Vogtland lie the cities of Reichenbach and Mylau (both at the western interface to the Mittelvogtland hilltop region ) from north to south , as well as Lengenfeld , Treuen and Rodewisch . At the eastern interface with the Western Ore Mountains , Auerbach and Falkenstein finally follow .
About 10 km south of Oelsnitz , which lies on the western border , the south of the natural area is finally divided by a Czech strip of land around Aš into a south-east corner with Adorf , Markneukirchen , Bad Elster and the sparsely populated south of the Elster Mountains and a south-west corner in the direction of the Bavarian Rehau , whose hardly populated northeast is counted as part of the Upper Vogtland.
Rehau itself is already on the other side of the Upper Vogtland at the interface between the Münchberg plateau and the "actual" Fichtel Mountains adjoining to the east .
The White Elster rises in the eastern south of the Upper Vogtland, in the Elster Mountains, and flows through the natural area from the southeast to the west of the center, immediately west of Oelsnitz, where it merges into the Mittelvogtland hill country. The eastern = right tributaries almost all arise in the Western Ore Mountains and flow in western directions, where they reach the Upper Vogtland near the source, within which they later also flow. Trieb and Göltzsch , the more northerly and also larger of the right Elster tributaries, flow through the northeast rather in a south (east) -north (west) direction.
literature
- The Upper Vogtland (= values of our homeland . Volume 26). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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)
- ↑ Map of the natural areas in Saxony ( Memento from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at www.umwelt.sachsen.de (PDF, 859 kB)