Salzbödetal

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The Salzbödetal natural area is a gently undulating hilly region in the east of the Gladenbacher Bergland . It lies along the valleys of the river Salzböde and its southern tributary Vers in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf , in the far southwest also in the district of Gießen , Central Hesse , and borders on the Marburg-Gießener Lahntal to the east .

View from Lammerich (Naumburg) over Gladenbach, Mornshausen, Lohra, Damm into the lower Salzbödetal

Within the natural area of ​​the Westerwald (main unit group 32), the Gladenbacher Bergland (main unit 320) forms the natural area 320.12.

Naming

The name of the natural area Salzbödetal was given in 1960 by Gerhard Sandner in the context of sheet 125 Marburg of the natural area survey 1: 200,000 . It is misleading insofar as the natural area does not refer to a valley in the narrower sense, but rather a two-armed valley basin and the surrounding hilly landscape. Neither the upper Salzbödetal at the northern foot of the Zollbuche natural area (above Bad Endbach ) nor the breakthrough valley through the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest (below Reimershausen ) are included, although they are typical valleys of the river itself. It would therefore have been more logical to name the natural area Gladenbacher Hügelland after Gladenbach, by far its largest and most important place . Sandner used this designation for the overarching landscape of Salzbödetal, Damshäuser Kuppen , Elnhausen-Michelbacher Senke and Niederweidbacher Becken , whereby the ridges with the 498  m high Rimberg already exceed the typical relief of a hill country and the north of the valley named after today's Marburg districts no longer has a closer relationship to Gladenbach, similar to the towns in the basin.

Limits

The Salzbödetal is bounded by higher mountain ranges in north-westerly directions and to the south. Its northern border to the almost 500 m high Damshausen peaks (west north) and Elnhausen-Michelbacher Senke (north) runs over the watershed of the Allna river to Salzböde (west) and Wenkbach (Lahn) (east).

In the far north-west the valley meets the over 600 m high plateau of the Bottenhorn plateau, in the west the mountain range of the Zollbuche, which protrudes far to the east and adjoins the plateau to the south, divides the natural area into two individual valleys, the northern one corresponds to the middle course of the salt flats , while the southern one claims the verse , a right tributary of the salt flats, together with tributaries. This south-western valley joins the Niederweidbach basin to the west , from which it separates the watershed between the salt flats or verse and the river on the opposite side, i.e. to the west, flowing Aar .

In the south, the Salzbödetal penetrates close to the nearly 500 m high singularity Dünsberg in the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest. Shortly before its mouth, a short section of the salt flats even flows through this densely wooded natural area.

Rivers

Salzbödetal near Reimershausen. In the middle of the picture the smoke mill where the verse ends

In addition to the Salzböde (without upper and lower reaches) and its southern tributary Vers , the upper reaches of Wenkbach (Lahn) and Walgerbach lie in the Salzbödetal natural area, the east of which they occupy.

places

View from the B 255 to Gladenbach . In the central background the 357 m high Lammerich , on the left the northern foot of the 361 m high Kirchberg es.

The city of Gladenbach occupies the northwest of the Salzbödetal . To the south of it, Bad Endbach - Hütte , the Gladenbacher districts Weidenhausen , Erdhausen and Mornshausen as well as Lohra along with the districts Damm and Etzelmühle follow the course of the salt flats. Most of the other districts of Lohras are located in the south-west adjoining Verstal, in the south of which the Biebertal districts of Frankenbach and Krumbach lie directly at the foot of the other side of the Dünsberg .

The east of the natural area is ultimately taken up by the missing Lohra districts and the western localities of the municipality of Weimar .

If you disregard the two Biebertal districts ( Gießen district ) and minimal forest areas at the interface to the Niederweidbach basin ( Lahn-Dill district ) to the east , the Salzbödetal lies completely in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .

mountains

The Salzbödetal has, apart from the seams to the more montane mountain ranges of the Gladenbacher Bergland, numerous independent elevations up to just under 400 m above sea level, of which hardly any protrudes above the valley floor by more than 100 m.

  • Dennberg (387 m) - at the western seam of the Verstal to the Niederweidbach basin
  • Nickenberg (376 m) - northwest of Frankenbach, west of the Verstal
  • Isselscheid (366 m) - south of the Frankenbach and Krumbach, at the southern interface to the Krofdorf-Königsberger Forest
  • Kirchberg (362 m) - west of Gladenbach
  • Lammerich (357 m) - southeast of Gladenbach
  • Himerich (357 m) - west of Weidenhausen
  • Stossberg (341 m) - Verstal, north of Weipoltshausen
  • Dammersberg (312 m) - east of Lohras, on the watershed between Salzböde and Walgerbach (Wenkbach)
  • Schneid (310 m) - northwest of Oberweimar, at the northern interface to the Elnhausen-Michelbacher depression
  • Oberwalgerer Berg (290 m) - north of Oberwalgern, eastern interface to the Marburg-Gießener Lahn valley

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Sandner: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 125 Marburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  2. ↑ a b 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

Web links

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