Salzunger Werrabergland

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View to Pleß (back) and Stoffelskuppe (left)

The Salzunger Werra Bergland is in Germany befindlicher natural area of Osthessischen Bergland in Hesse and Thuringia .

Geographical location

The Salzunger Werrabergland lies on both sides of the Werra near Bad Salzungen . It extends like a plateau to 350 to 645.4  m above sea level. NN between the northwestern Thuringian Forest (in the east), Kuppenrhön (in the west) and Seulingswald (in the northwest). It accompanies the Werra on both sides from Walldorf to Vacha , and on the right to Gerstungen .

geology

The main rock is red sandstone , from which a few volcanic peaks such as Pleß and Stoffelskuppe , the phenotype of which already heralds the Kuppenrhön to the west , protrude. Salt tectonics created depressions and sinkholes.

Natural structure

In the natural spatial feature unit group East Hesse Highlands (number 35 or D47) is the salt Unger Werra highlands, the main unit (no. 359). The extending in the main thing here in northwestern directions Talungen Werra and Suhl divide the mountains into 3 orographic mountain parts of which only the central Frauensee hill country is independent in itself.

359 Salzunger Werrabergland

mountains

The mountains of the Salzunger Werrabergland include - with an altitude in meters above sea ​​level (NN):

Flowing waters

The rivers (all in the Werra catchment area ) of the Salzunger Werrabergland include (downstream from south to north, with length in kilometers and estuary):

Left tributaries of the Werra:

Right tributaries of the Werra:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas in the East Hessian highlands (35) with parts of the Salzunger Werrabergland (359) located in Hesse in the Hessian Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology - Attention: Web links without return!
  2. ↑ a b Official name unknown - required source: W. Röll: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 126 Fulda - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969
  3. ↑ The handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany (4th and 5th delivery - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, E. Meynen and J. J. Schmithüsen , Remagen 1957) speaks in its preliminary, coarser structure of "Suhltal" and "Becken von Möhra" .

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