Split hill country
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
- ^ Historical book of place names of Bavaria: Middle Franconia. Commission for Bavarian State History, 1979, p. 32.
- ^ 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)