Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel

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Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel
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 08-09 →
Swabian and Franconian Alb
Main unit group 08 →
Franconian Alb
4th order region
(main unit)
082 →
Southern Franconian Alb
5th order region 082.2 →
Altmühlalb
Natural space 082.29Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel
Geographical location
Coordinates 49 ° 2 '45 "  N , 11 ° 21' 9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '45 "  N , 11 ° 21' 9"  E
Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel (Bavaria)
Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel
Location Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel
local community Greding , Thalmassing , Kinding
circle Roth , Eichstatt
state Bavaria
Country Germany

The Schwarzach-Thalach valley funnel , also Gredinger Schwarzachtal , is a natural area (082.29) of the southern Franconian Jura in the south-west German stepland .

It is part of the Altmühlalb , a sub-area of ​​the southern Franconian Alb , which in turn belongs to the Franconian Alb , also known as the Franconian Alb . It borders in the northwest on the foreland of the southern Franconian Jura , in the narrower sense the Staufer Eisensandsteinberge (110.41), in the northeast on the foreland of the Middle Franconian Jura (111), more precisely Freystädter Albvorland west of the Schwarzach (111.00) and Schwarzachtal (111.01), in the east to the western Sulzplatte (082.30), in the south briefly to the Beilngries-Dietfurt valley zone (82.37) and in the east to the Anlauter. The Western Sulzplatte and the Anlauteralb are plateaus that are more than 100 m higher than the valley funnel. Together with the other areas mentioned, it forms a valley through the southern Franconian Jura, which has been used as a trade route for thousands of years and led to early settlement of the area.

The Schwarzach and Thalach have cut a deep valley into the Alb. The only elevations in the natural area are the Hofberg 553  m above sea level. NHN and the Auerberg 516  m above sea level. NHN . The with about 374  m above sea level. NHN's lowest point of the natural area on its south side is in the valley cut at the confluence of the Anlauter into the Schwarzach and thus almost 240 meters below the highest peak of the Alb plateau. Because the Jurassic rock is karstified underground , the adjacent plateaus are drained over a large area underground via fissures and show only a few watercourses on the surface. The water table and surface water in their dug-in valleys are very deep. Therefore, the valley zone was important for their water supply.

The area is used for agriculture and forestry. The valley was used for the route during the construction of the federal motorway 9 and the high-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich .

Politically, the area largely belongs to the town of Greding and the Thalmässing market . A small part belongs to the Kinding community . The largest settlement is Greding . Further settlements are from south to north: Mettendorf , Greding , Hausen , Petermühle , Günzenhofen , Wildbad , Großhöbing , Kleinhöbing , Göllersreuth , Hagenich , Aue , Kochsmühle , Untermässing , Kammühle , Obermässing and Hofberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Tichy : Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  2. ^ A b Dietrich-Jürgen Manske : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 164 Regensburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1981. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  3. a b Ralph Jätzold: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 172 Nördlingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 3.9 MB)
  4. Otto Sporbeck, Hansgeorg Schlichtmann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 173 Ingolstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1990. →  Online map (PDF; 3.6 MB)
  5. Height according to: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ) - Focused map section