Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land

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Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land
surface 5 407.4  km²
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Greater region 1st order 07–23 → Layer level land on both
sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
Greater region 2nd order 08–16 → Southwest German step country
Greater region 3rd order 10–11 →
Swabian-Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land
Main unit group 10 →
Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land
Natural area characteristics
Landscape type Layer level landscape , Keuper and Liass level .
Highest peak Zoller , witness mountain of the Swabian Alb ( 855  m )
Geographical location
Coordinates 48 ° 42 '10.8 "  N , 9 ° 25' 8.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '10.8 "  N , 9 ° 25' 8.4"  E
Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land (southwest German stepland)
Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land
Location Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land
state Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria

The Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land is the main natural unit group 10 in southwest Germany. It is almost completely in Baden-Württemberg, a small part in the far east, the Nördlinger Ries around Nördlingen , is in Bavaria .

The landscape includes the most south-westerly part of the Keuperbergland as well as the separating Lias sinks, which connect directly to the north with the Swabian Alb (09) and east with the Gäuplatten in the Neckar and Tauberland (12). Together with the Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land (11) adjoining it to the northeast , it forms a large natural region of the 3rd order .

Natural structure

The Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land is divided into the following three-digit numbered main units (three digits) and sub-units (decimal places):

Web links

Commons : Schwäbisches Keuper-Lias-Land  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  2. Various authors: Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural spatial units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps
    • Sheet 161: Karlsruhe ( Josef Schmithüsen 1952; 24 pages)
    • Sheet 162: Rotenburg od Tauber (Wolf Dieter Sick 1962; 58 p.)
    • Sheet 170: Stuttgart (Friedrich Huttenlocher, Hansjörg Dongus 1967; 76 pages)
    • Sheet 171: Göppingen (Hansjörg Dongus 1961; 54 p.)
    • Sheet 172: Nördlingen (Ralph Jätzold 1962; 39 pages)
    • Sheet 178: Sigmaringen (Friedrich Huttenlocher 1959; 61 p.)

swell

  • BfN landscape profiles [federal state = 1 Baden-Württemberg] and [federal state = 2 Bavaria] - all landscapes with a five-digit number beginning with "10" belong to the Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land; the first three digits stand for the main unit