Saxon-Lower Lusatian heathland
| Natural regions in Saxony | |
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| Systematics according to | Natural areas and natural area potentials of the Free State of Saxony |
| Natural region | Saxon-Lower Lusatian heathland |
| Geographical location | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '0 " N , 14 ° 15' 0" E |
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| state | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
The Saxon-Niederlausitzer Heideland is a natural region in Saxony . The current natural spatial structure of the Free State of Saxony groups natural areas of the upper choral or subregional dimension level ( macrogeochores ) in order to illustrate their large-scale classification into three Saxon natural regions . These each represent excerpts from natural spatial units of a higher order, but the descriptions published so far are mostly limited to the portion located within the Saxon state borders.
According to this division, the Saxon-Niederlausitzer Heideland forms the southernmost branch of the North German lowlands in eastern Germany. It extends in two sub-areas on the northern edge of Saxony and takes up about 20% of the area of this federal state. While its boundaries in the north and east were drawn along the political boundaries due to the given scope of research and recording, they otherwise run according to the physiogeographical conditions and are congruent with those of the natural spaces involved. The western part, roughly between the rivers Mulde and Große Röder , contains the macrogeochores Düben-Dahlener-Heide , Elbe-Elster-Niederung and in the extreme northwest a small part of the Bitterfeld mining area , the main part of which is located in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and in the The local landscape planning is referred to as the Bitterfeld opencast mining region. The eastern part includes the Königsbrück-Ruhlander Heiden , the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area , the Upper Lusatian mining area , the Muskauer Heide , the Lusatian border wall and, in the far north, a small part of the Cottbus sand plate , which mainly extends in the state of Brandenburg . The Grossenhainer Pflege is located between the two sub-areas and , due to its natural characteristics, is already included in the Saxon Loess Field , which is adjacent to the south .
Characteristic and connecting features of the natural areas grouped into the Saxon-Niederlausitzer Heideland are nutrient-poor soils on mighty ice-age loose sediments , abundance of groundwater and brown coal that is widely stored underground . It is so-called old moraine land , in which erosion and soil-forming processes have been working for a very long time. The surface forms created in the Pleistocene are accordingly already heavily blurred or evened, the soils are deeply decalcified and in some cases deeply acidic. The widespread unfavorable agriculture resulted in a relatively thin settlement and, especially in the 20th century, extensive military uses. Large areas were thoroughly technogenically shaped by mining ( opencast mining on lignite).
Relatively uncut areas, numerous bodies of water and humid locations as well as extensive, nutrient-poor open land determine, among other features, the nature conservation value of the region, in which around 71% of the Saxon nature reserve area is concentrated (see list of nature reserves in Saxony with assignment of the NSG to the natural areas).
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- Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz e. V. (Ed.): Landschaftsgliederungen in Sachsen , 2005, without ISBN.
- 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 .
- Landscape Research Center e. V. Dresden: Research system for the natural spaces and natural space potentials of the Free State of Saxony (map view of the natural regions: in the “Subjects” tab, expand the “Natural spaces” folder, activate the “Natural regions” checkbox).
- Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture (Ed.): Nature reserves in Saxony. Central brochure dispatch of the Saxon State Government, Dresden 2008, ISBN 3-932627-17-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of the landscape units in Saxony-Anhalt at www.sachsen-anhalt.de