Schwalm Gate
The Schwalmpforte , once popularly also called Lierloch , between Kerstenhausen and Kleinenglis in the Schwalm-Eder district of Hesse is the breakthrough of the Schwalm from the Löwensteiner Grund into the Schwalmaue .
geography
location
The Schwalmpforte lies between the villages of Kerstenhausen in the west, Arnsbach in the south and Kleinenglis in the east, which all belong to the town of Borken . The Schwalm runs through it in a west-east direction, after coming from the south from the Löwensteiner Grund in an elongated arc around the west and north sides of the Altenburg ( 432.7 m above sea level ) and passed Kerstenhausen into the Schwalmaue. The gate is formed by the Hundsburg ( 334.9 m ) in the north and the Altenburg-northeast foothills of the Kuhberg ( 342.9 m ) in the south. The river bed of the Schwalm is here at an altitude of 180 m .
Immediately to the east of the gate is the Stockelache , an approx . 10 hectare natural bathing lake created from the remaining open pit of the former "Stockelache pit" after the cessation of lignite mining in the Borken lignite area through recultivation . The Altenburg Kippe , a high dump , rises to the southeast near the gate .
Through the gate of pull in west-east direction along the Schwalm parts protected landscape Auenverbund Schwalm ( CDDA . -No 378,405; 1993 reported; 45.1006 sq km high).
Natural allocation
The Schwalmpforte belongs to the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34) and in the main unit Ostwaldecker Randsenken (341) to the subunit Hessenwald (341.6). There the Schwalm passes from the western Löwensteiner Grund (341.7) through the Hessenwald natural area to the eastern Schwalmaue (343.210), which is part of the Wabern Plain natural area (343.21) in the West Hessian Basin main unit (343) and in the Hessengau subunit (343.2) .
Emergence
As Schmidt-Döhl convincingly demonstrated, the Schwalmpforte was originally formed by the Wälzebach , which in the Pliocene, together with the Gilsa and Urff, drained the Kellerwald to the east and at that time had a much larger catchment area than it does today and therefore carried considerably more water. However, due to the retrograde erosion of the Sonderbach near Odershausen, its two original source rivers Talgraben and Kaltebornsbach were lost to the Eder river system , and the Urff, which now flows directly into the Schwalm, previously flowed to the Wälzebach. The very steep north-west slope of the Altenburg, along which the Schwalm runs today, is an original impact slope of the Wälzebach. The Schwalm only entered the river landscape of today's Löwensteiner Grund, formed by Gilsa, Urff and Wälzebach, and continued to shape it.
traffic
In the Middle Ages, the important trade route from Kassel and Fritzlar via Marburg to Frankfurt ran through the Schwalmpforte . Today the federal highway 3 runs north along the Schwalm below the Hundsburg , which crosses under the federal highway 49 at the eastern exit of the gate at the junction Borken and then passes the Stockelache bathing lake. To the south along the river runs through the gate at the northern foot of the Kuhberg past the district road 73 from Kerstenhausen to Arnsbach and then on to Borken; it passes the deserted village of Kleinkerstenhausen , which was last mentioned as a single farm in 1578, and the remains of the Margarethenkirche .
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '50.4 " N , 9 ° 13' 55.2" E
Notes and individual references
- ^ Ferdinand Pfister: Kleines Handbuch der Landeskunde von Kurhessen , Kassel, 1840, p. 48, on books.google.de
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Frank Schmidt-Döhl: River history and selected geomorphological aspects of the Schwalm in Hesse. In: Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geoswissenschaften, supplement 38, 2017, pp. 1-139 (here 81-94)
- ↑ During the construction of the leading through the gate road Fritzlar-Kerstenhausen today section of the B 3 and the A49, in the years 1803 to 1804 were below the Hundsburg tumuli and grave urns found; see Georg Landau: "Contributions to Hessian Local History" , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , eighth volume, Kassel, 1860, pp. 96–97
