South Sauerland highlands

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The Südsauerländer Bergland is a natural spatial unit of the Süderbergland in the North Rhine-Westphalian Sauerland . In particular, it contains the mountain ranges of Saalhauser Berge , Ebbegebirge and Lennegebirge, each up to over 650 m high . The north-western half of the landscape, which forms a horseshoe open to the northeast, is called the Ebbe-Homert threshold ( see below ).

The central river of the unit is the Lenne , which cuts through the southeast of the area in an east-west direction and the central part in a southeast-northwest direction. The south of the main unit is dominated by its left tributary Bigge with the Biggesee .

The South Sauerland Uplands, together with the Märkische Oberland , which is sloping to the northwest , are also combined to form the main unit of the West Sauerland Uplands .

Location and limits

The southern Sauerland mountainous region is almost exclusively located in the three Sauerland districts of Olpe district (center and south), Märkischer Kreis (northwest) and Hochsauerlandkreis (northeast). Furthermore, peripheral areas belong to the Oberbergisches Kreis (also North Rhine-Westphalia, south-west), the Altenkirchen district ( Rhineland-Palatinate , west south) and the Siegen-Wittgenstein district (North Rhine-Westphalia, east south).

The area has the shape of a horseshoe open to the northeast, in the interior of which lies the southwest arm of the Sauerland Depression , which extends to directly in front of the Biggesee and which stretches from Attendorn via Finnentrop to Eslohe to the northeast to unite with other partial depressions.

In the extreme north of the unit is Plettenberg , in the south Olpe , in the extreme south Wenden and in the south east Lennestadt and Kirchhundem .

In the northwest, the Versetalsperre is only about 3 km southeast of the city of Lüdenscheid, which is outside the unit . In the extreme northeast, the Hennesee is located immediately southwest of the outlying city of Meschede .

Natural structure

The South Sauerland highlands are structured as follows (for better orientation, some places and bodies of water are linked below):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Environment, Water Management and Trade Inspection Rhineland-Palatinate: Hydrological Atlas - Rhineland-Palatinate , Natural Space Structure (PDF) ( Memento from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 9, 2010
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
    • In the landscape map service (click on the landscape profiles!) The Ebbe-Homert-Schwelle is referred to as "Ebbegebirge, Homert"; the Mittelbigge-Bergland is shown individually, red-haired protrusions and upper-big-high areas are combined.
    • In the map service Protected Areas , the main unit is combined with the neighboring main unit "Märkisches Oberland" to the north-west to form the (over) main unit "Westsauerländer Oberland". The right = east of the Wenne part of the Grevensteiner Berge is cut off for inexplicable reasons!
  3. ↑ E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, 4./5. Delivery Remagen 1957 (a total of 9 deliveries in 8 books 1953-1962, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960)
  4. ↑ Various authors: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units in single sheets 1: 200,000 - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959-1970 → online maps ;
    Pages marked with an asterisk (*) have not yet been included in the list.
    • Sheet 108/109: Düsseldorf / Erkelenz (K. Paffen, A. Schüttler, H. Müller-Miny 1963)
    • Sheet 110: Arnsberg (Martin Bürgener 1969)
    • Sheet 124: Siegen (H. Fischer 1972)
  5. ↑ BfN landscape profile Ebbe-Homert threshold
  6. ↑ BfN landscape profile, Middle Bigger England
  7. ↑ BfN landscape profile South Sauerland Rothaarvorhöhen and Oberbiggehochfläche

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