Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön

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Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön
surface 5 854.4  km²
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Greater region 1st order 07–23 → Layer level land on both
sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
Greater region 2nd order 07–16 →
Southwest German step country
Greater region 3rd order 14 →
Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön
Natural area characteristics
Landscape type Low mountain range ( basement , red sandstone ) of a layered landscape
Geographical location
Coordinates 49 ° 42 '14 "  N , 9 ° 15' 52"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '14 "  N , 9 ° 15' 52"  E
Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (western layer level land)
Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön
The Odenwald-Spessart-Gruppe on both sides of the Main with Miltenberg in the approximate center
state Bavaria , Hesse , Baden-Wuerttemberg
Country Germany

The Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön area , also known as the Hessian-Franconian mountainous region , represents a 5854.4 km² group of natural spatial units within the south-west German layer level state and extends over the federal states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria and Hesse . The 3rd order Greater Region has the code number 14 ( Handbook of Natural Spatial Structure of Germany , 1950s ff) or D55 ( BfN 1994) and consists of the orographically separated landscapes of Odenwald , Spessart , Südrhön and Büdinger Wald .

While the two first-mentioned landscapes represent well-known low mountain ranges with (smaller) older basement parts , the southern Rhön forms a red sandstone border that falls in height around the - well differentiated - south of the Rhön , the Büdinger Forest in an analogous manner on the Vogelsberg .

Natural structure

The main unit group is divided into main units (three digits) and sub-units (decimal places) as follows:

Structure according to LfU

In the 2000s, the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) carried out an inland, somewhat coarser breakdown of the main units concerned, which did not pay particular attention to the individual sheets. The outer boundaries of the main units differ from those of the individual leaves only in details. The subunits are differentiated by trailing letters; Since some of them are not simply connected, they were differentiated again by trailing numbers, which follow the order of the paths in the LfU shp file, but which had no explicit numbers and names:

  • 14 Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön
    • 140-A Neustadt - Gemündener Saale Valley (37.59 km²)
    • 140-B plateau of the Südrhön , 4 segments:
      • 140-B1 Seifriedsburger Südrhön (55.24 km²)
      • 140-B2 Left edge of the Saale valley between Elfershausen and Hammelburg (3.21 km²)
      • 140-B3 Southeastern Neustädter Becken , Nüdlinger step foreland and left edge of the Saale valley between Kissingen and Elfershausen (66.34 km²)
      • 140-B4 plateaus of the Südrhön (main part, right of the Saale) (735.25 km²)
    • 141-A sandstone spessart , 2 segments:
      • 141-A1 Sandstone Spessart (main part) (918 km²)
      • 141-A2 Zeitlofser Sinntal and Kälberberg (on the Schweinfurt sheet just in the South Rhön) (7.37 km²)
    • 141-B Western Spessart High Level (72.64 km²)
    • 141-C Mainaue in Buntsandstein (from above Gemündens to Klingenberg ) (50.14 km²)
    • 141-D Valley slopes of the Main and its tributaries , 4 segments:
      • 141-D1 Left valley slopes from above Gemünden to below Marktheidenfeld (70.98 km²)
      • 141-D2 Right valley above Gemündens (3.18 km²)
      • 141-D3 Right valley slopes from Gemünden to Aschaffenburg (207.14 km²)
      • 141-D4 valley slope between the Franconian Saale and Sinn near Gemünden (0.94 km²)
    • 142 Vorderer Spessart (265.82 km²)
    • 144-A sandstone oden forest , 4 segments:
      • 144-A1 Kirchzeller Sandsteinodenwald (138.24 km²)
      • 144-A2 Laudenbach - Wörther Sandsteinodenwald (8.48 km²)
      • 144-A3 Sellplatte (7.69 km²)
      • 144-A4 Buchberg (northern part of Sellplatte ) (0.96 km²)
    • 144-B Eastern Odenwald Foreland , 4 segments:
    • 144-C valley slopes of the Main and its tributaries (154.18 km²)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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).
  2. ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 139 Frankfurt a. M. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  3. ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 140 Schweinfurt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1968. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Otto Klausing: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 151 Darmstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  5. ^ Horst Mensching , Günter Wagner : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 152 Würzburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Josef Schmithüsen : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 161 Karlsruhe. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952. →  Online map (PDF; 5.1 MB)
  7. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  8. ↑ a b Name according to sheet 161 Karlsruhe (1952)
  9. ↑ Name according to the Hessen Environmental Atlas
  10. ^ Name according to sheet 151 Darmstadt (1967)
  11. ↑ The unit is marked on the map of Blatt Darmstadt, probably by mistake, as 144.00 .
  12. ↑ Natural areas of the main unit groups 23, 14 and 35 in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government -  Rhine-Main-Tiefland , Odenwald, Spessart, Südrhön and Rhön ( notes )
  13. ↑ Franconian Saale, simply titled "Saaletal" by LfU