Upper Main Hill Country
| Upper Main Hill Country | |
|---|---|
| surface | 1 250 km² |
| 4th order region (main unit) |
071 → Upper Main Hill Country |
| 2nd order natural space | 07 → Upper Palatinate-Upper Main hill country |
| Natural area characteristics | |
| Landscape type | Clod landscape |
| Geographical location | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 6 '29 " N , 11 ° 27' 20" E |
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| state | Bavaria , Thuringia |
As Obermainisches Hügelland (also: Obermainisches Hügel- und Bergland , more rarely: Obermainisches Bruchschollenland ) the valley landscape of the catchment area of the Main- Oberlauf up to the confluence of the Rodach is called.
The north-west-south-east 80 km long and 20 km wide area is bordered to the northeast along the Franconian line by the Thuringian-Franconian low mountain range from the Franconian Forest to the Fichtelgebirge , to the southwest by the Franconian Alb . The landscape is mainly in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Franconia , but also to a small extent in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg . The best-known places in the interior are (from northwest to southeast) Kronach , Kulmbach and Bayreuth ; on the extreme northern edge is Sonneberg , on the extreme western edge Lichtenfels .
Historically, the landscape is also called Upper Mainland to a similar extent , but today this more vague term is often applied to the significantly larger landscape of the depressions along the Upper Main up to the Regnitz estuary or even up to the exit from Upper Franconia.
Location and limits
The comparatively sharp northeast border of the Upper Main hill country to the Franconian Forest , Münchberger Plateau and Fichtelgebirge stretches along the Franconian line from Sonneberg ( district of Sonneberg , Thuringia ) to Upper Franconia via Stockheim, north of Kronach (both district of Kronach ), Stadtsteinach ( district of Kulmbach ), Bad Berneck and Goldkronach to Weidenberg (all three districts of Bayreuth ). From there, the border follows the naturally similar Upper Palatinate hill country via Seybothenreuth (also the district of Bayreuth) to south of Creussen, the comparatively unspectacular, a maximum of 550 m above sea level. The watershed between the Main and Naab , which reaches the NHN , is a section of the European main watershed .
Again somewhat clearer, but without a pronounced stratification , the south-western border to the Franconian Jura runs from south to west of Creußen via Mistelgau back into the district of Kulmbach with Thurnau and finally into the district of Lichtenfels with Weismain and there via a somewhat irregular north-west direction to immediately before the district town Lichtenfels . There the valleys of the Main, the Rodach and, from Redwitz , the lower Steinach upstream form a border to the Itz-Baunach hill country , to which of the river valley sections only that of the Main is assigned.
To the north of Schneckenlohe ( district of Kronach ), the Steinach, which now runs north-west, is flanked west of the Mönchröden-Beikheimer Bruchschollen-Kuppen , which is only in the extreme northwest, south-west of Neustadt ( district of Coburg ) , which is still part of the Upper Main Hills area the narrow breakthrough valley of the Röden separates from the Schalkau plateau , which is upstream of the Thuringian Slate Mountains to the south.
Although the last-mentioned river valleys and broken clods represent a comparatively sharp demarcation, they separate relatively similar landscapes from one another.
Natural structure
In terms of natural space , the Upper Main hill country represents a main unit according to the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . A further subdivision into sub-units only exists for the north-western part, west of the longitude 11 ° 20 '. This is due to the fact that of the single sheets 1: 200,000 for the manual only sheet 141 Coburg was published, while sheet 142 Plauen (south) , which adjoins it to the east, and sheet 154/155 Bayreuth following the latter to the south, never about the stage of the Planning came out.
The following sub-natural areas are identified:
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(to 07 (= D62) Oberpfälzisch-Obermainisches Hügelland )
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071 Upper Main Hill Country
- 071.0 Northeastern foreland of the Northern Franconian Alb
- 071.00 Lichtenfels - Langheimer Albvorland
- 071.01 Altenkunstadt - Buchauer Albvorland with Weismain valley funnel
- 071.1 Redwitz-Kulmbacher Obermaintal
- 071.10 Redwitz valley braid
- 071.11 Burgkunstadt - Kulmbach Main valley
- 071.2 Küps-Mainleuser hill country
- 071.20 gardens Roth - Veit lame hills
- 071.21 Burkersdorfer Rhät o lias hill country
- 071.22 Schmölzer gusset (triangle)
- 071.3 Kronach-Kulmbacher mountain and hill country
- 071.30 Kronach - Mitwitz plateau
- 071.31 Kirchleuser Platte
- 071.32 Kronach - Kulmbach red sandstone -back
- 071.4 Mönchröden-Beikheimer Bruchschollen-Kuppen
- 071.5 Neustadt-Sonneberg Basin
- 071.50 catchment area of the Röden
- 071.51 The Muppberg (5th order singularity)
- 071.52 Linder loess loam level
- 071.53 Rotheuler hill country with Burggruber gate
- 071.0 Northeastern foreland of the Northern Franconian Alb
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071 Upper Main Hill Country
Individual evidence
- ^ A b 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)
- ↑ Heinz Späth: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 141 Coburg - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1987 → online map