Upper Lusatia (natural area)
Upper Lusatia was the name of a main group of natural areas according to the manual of the natural structure of Germany in the extreme south-east of Saxony . It was named after the historic Upper Lusatia .
However, after the working group “ Natural Balance and Territorial Character” of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig revised the natural spatial classifications, the Upper Lusatia is no longer used as a coherence. Rather, the individual main units were split up into low mountain ranges and loess hill parts. Nevertheless, the main unit group is still used at the BfN
Natural structure
The classification according to Meynen looked as follows (in brackets: code number according to BfN):
- 44 (= D14) Upper Lusatia
As things stand today, the mountainous Lusatian mountains are combined with the low mountain ranges to the south-east ( Zittau Mountains ) and west ( Saxon Switzerland , Ore Mountains , Vogtland ) to form the unity of the Saxon and low mountain ranges .
All other main units were assigned to the Saxon Loess Field. The Upper Lusatian climes were retained as a sub-unit, the West Lusatian foothills were merged with the Lausitzer Platte to the west to form the West Lusatian hills and mountains , and the East Lusatian foothills with the Neisse region to form Eastern Upper Lusatia .
See also
supporting documents
- ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Ed.): 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 services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )