Eastern Upper Lusatia

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The Eastern Upper Lusatia is a natural area in Saxony and, in a broader sense, part of the West Sudeten . The current Saxon natural area classification assigns it to the Saxon loess field on a regional scale and distinguishes twelve sub-areas in the rank of mesogeochores .

The eastern Upper Lusatia stretches between the cities of Görlitz and Zittau in a north-south direction . In the north it borders on the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area , in the south on the Zittau Mountains , in the west on the Upper Lusatian area and the Upper Lusatian highlands . The easternmost part is separated by the Lusatian Neisse and is located in Poland. The Königshain Mountains , the Neißetal and post-mining landscapes south of Görlitz and in the Zittau Basin are sub-units with special characteristics .

The natural area is varied and characterized by the juxtaposition of mountain groups, individual mountains, slabs and basins. Ice-age ground moraines and meltwater sands and loess layered above fill the granite relief with varying thicknesses. The loess clay is generally only about 1 to 1.5 m thick. Evidence of tertiary volcanism can be found on the ceiling and individual mountains of basalts and phonolites . In the Zittau and Oderwitz basins , as well as in the Berzdorf basin, there are significant deposits of lignite enclosed in sediments .

Climatically, the Eastern Upper Lusatia lies partly in the lee of the Upper Lusatian highlands. So there is only 665 mm of annual precipitation. The annual temperatures are 8 to 8.6 ° C. The potential natural vegetation is the hornbeam - oak forest with winter linden .

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  • Mannsfeld, K. and Syrbe, R.-U. (Ed.): Natural spaces in Saxony with a map supplement “Naturräumliche Gliederung Sachsens”, in: Research on German regional studies (Volume 257), German Academy for Regional Studies, self-published, Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88143-078-4

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