Split hill country

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Massendorfer Gorge near Spalt

The Spalter hill country is a hill country around the eponymous city ​​of Spalt in the Central Franconian districts of Roth and Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is located between Nuremberg , Ansbach and Treuchtlingen in the north of the Franconian Lake District and is divided into:

  • the southern Spalter hill country
  • the northern Spalter hill country
  • the Spalter valley basin with the Franconian Rezat flowing through it
  • the Abenberger hill group and
  • the Heidenberg

geography

The Spalter Hügelland are individual mountains with sandstone ceilings of the Upper Keuper and the Lias . Important individual mountains are the Mittelberg and the Reckenberg near Absberg as well as the Mönchsberg and the Büchelberg in the Haundorfer Wald .

The Spalter Hügelland and the Brombachsee area together form the natural spatial unit NE 113.4 within the main natural spatial unit of the Middle Franconian Basin . Parts of the Spalter Hügelland belong to the landscape protection area of ​​the Southern Central Franconian Basin west of the Swabian Rezat and the Rednitz with Spalter Hügelland, Abenberger Hügelgruppe and Heidenberg (LSG West) .

The Massendorfer Gorge , which is about 1200 meters northeast of Spalt, is worth seeing . There are other gorges nearby, such as the Schnittlinger Loch .

The Aschenschlaggraben is created in the Spalter hill country at an altitude of 474 meters above  sea ​​level north of Fünfbronn , the Offenbrunngraben at an altitude of 486 meters above sea level southeast of Kalbensteinberg . Together they form the Reichertsgraben , which flows into the Erlbach from the left at a height of 371 meters above sea level west of Hohenrad . The dam of the Igelsbachsee is also located in the Spalter hill country.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical book of place names of Bavaria: Middle Franconia. Commission for Bavarian State History, 1979, p. 32.
  2. ^ 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 MB)