Sooden-Allendorfer Werra Valley

The Sooden-Allerdorfer Werratal comprises part of the Werra valley within the Lower Werrabergland in the Hessian Werra-Meißner district and with a small portion in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld in Germany .

View from the Gobert into the Werra valley near Bad Sooden-Allendorf

Geographical location

The section of the Sooden-Allendorfer Werra Valley lies between Jestädt northwest of Eschwege in the south and Wendershausen south of Witzenhausen in the north and is about 13 kilometers long. The eponymous town of Bad Sooden-Allendorf is located in the central part, while the former inner-German border ran in the northern area .

Natural structure

The Werra loop at Lindewerra from the Teufelskanzel seen

The Sooden-Allendorfer Werra Valley is structured according to the Kassel sheet as follows:

• (to 35 East Hessian mountains )
  • (to 358 Lower Werrabergland )
    • 358.3 Sooden-Allerdorfer Werra Valley
      • 358.30 Albunger Werra Valley
      • 358.31 Allendorfer widening
      • 358.32 Lindewerra-Werleshäuser Schlingen

nature

The Sooden-Allendorfer Werra Valley includes the narrow valley areas with its loess-covered terraces in the north and south, as well as the basin-shaped widening east of Bad Sooden-Allendorf . The valley is mainly used for agriculture and is bordered by the following wooded mountain ranges and ridges:

• Soodener Bergland (Roßkopf: 482 m and nameless: 353 m) in the west
• Neuseesen-Werleshäuser heights ( Ebenhöhe : approx. 320 m) in the north
• Höheberg (Junkerkuppe: 511 m) in the northeast
• Gobert ( Dietzenröder Stein : 496 m and Hörnespitze: 523 m) in the east
• Southern Gobert foreland (Uhlenkuppe: approx. 385 m) in the southeast

Worth seeing

• Old town and spa facilities in Bad Sooden-Allendorf
• Two castles near Werleshausen to Ludwigstein Castle and Hanstein Castle
• Border Museum Schifflersgrund near Asbach-Sickenberg
• Stickmaker Museum in Lindewerra
• Manor in Werleshausen
• Church in Wahlhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969 → online map

Web links

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