Steinwald (LfU)

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Stone forest
surface approx. 158.7 km²
Systematics according to Bavarian State Office for the Environment
Main unit group 39 →
Thuringian-Franconian low mountain range
4th order region
(main unit)		 394 →
Hohes Fichtelgebirge
5th order region 394-C →
Steinwald (LfU)
Natural area characteristics
Landscape type (Higher) low mountain range
Highest peak Plate ( 946  m )
Geographical location
Coordinates 49 ° 54 '31.6 "  N , 12 ° 3' 12.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '31.6 "  N , 12 ° 3' 12.8"  E
Sub-natural areas of the Fichtelgebirge according to LfU
Sub-natural areas of the Fichtelgebirge according to LfU
circle Tirschenreuth , district Wunsiedel
state Bavaria
Country Germany

With Steinwaldhaus a is natural spatial sub-unit (394-C) of the High Fichtelgebirges (main unit 394) in the upper Palatine Tirschenreuth to small proportions in the upper Frankish district Wunsiedel designated. It contains not only the Steinwald (up to 944  m ), but also the Reichsforst (up to 705  m ) to the northeast and the Fichtelnaab to the southwest (= right) , the Armesberg ( 732  m ) and the hills adjoining it to the southeast.

Systematics

The main unit of natural space Hohes Fichtelgebirge (394) was identified as a sub-unit of the main unit group Thuringian-Franconian low mountain range (39) in the work on the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . However, since sheets 142 Plauen (South) and 154/155 Bayreuth were never published in the refined structure 1: 200,000 , there was no refinement of this structure until the 2010s.

In the meantime, the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) has broken down all natural areas in Bavaria based on the main units, which may contain a further sub-level - i.e. up to the 5th level. Since there is no further refinement, the main units are not followed by any decimal places, but the code numbers of the sub-natural areas are provided with a letter after them. In the Steinwald, the third of four sub-units, this was the letter C.

Location and limits

The Steinwald natural area borders the Pilgramsreuther Sattel (394-B) to the west, the Selb-Wunsiedeler plateau (395) or the Selb-Wunsiedeler Hügelland (395-A) to the northwest, and the Lausnitzer Randberge (394-D ) to the northeast ) and to the southeast to the Naab-Wondreb-Depression (396). To the southwest it goes over into the Upper Palatinate hill country (070).

The demarcation mainly follows the continuous forest; the boundaries to Pilgramsreuther Sattel and Lausnitzer Randbergen are described in more detail in the articles there, the boundary to the Selb-Wunsiedeler Hügelland southeast of (Marktredwitz-) Brand is geomorphologically clear and at the same time lies on the tree line.

The border to the Naab-Wondreb depression also largely follows the forest line; in the northeast, Mitterteich is largely spared, as is the pond and pond area west-southwest of the city and the wooded spur of the Torberg ( 561  m ) northeast of the market in Fuchsmühl . The market itself, on the eastern slope of the stone forest, is added to the unit, as well, further to the southwest, the northwest half of the peninsula-like cleared settlement area of ​​the community of Friedenfels . The natural area boundary reaches Siegritz and Wetzldorf about halfway, the Fichtelnaab northwest of the city of Erbendorf , in which the two last-named villages were incorporated.

Almost 3 km west-north-west of the city, the Naab-Wondreb depression is blocked by a north-south mountain range consisting of Frauenberg ( 561  m ), Platte ( 615  m ) and Kornberg ( 619  m ), which are already part of the Upper Palatinate hill country and are only separated from the Steinwald by the Fichtelnaab. To the northwest of this block, the Steinwald natural area also emerges over the Fichtelnaab and extends to just before the B 22 in the direction of Waldeck . A nameless hill with the field name “Buch” ( 660  m ) and the Kühberg ( 710  m ) east of Waldeck are included. From the aforementioned Kemnath district, the natural border finally follows the tree line in a north-northwest direction and thus includes the Armesberg ( 731  m ), to the north of which the Pilgramsreuther saddle finally begins with the Steinwitzhügel ( 664  m ).

The A 93 and the Fichtelnaab, which crosses the northeast of the natural area in a southeast direction, divide the natural area into three segments:

  • the Reichsforst in the northeast, bearing many basalt mountains, with a ridge line that is shifted to the northwest compared to the stone forest (about 37.2 km²),
  • the (orographic) stone forest in the center (about 102.7 km²) and
  • the Armesberg and its southeastern neighboring mountains in the southwest (about 18.8 km²),

the latter part only has three noteworthy surveys. However, the orographic stone forest can be subdivided into the geological stone forest (stone forest in the narrower sense) in the southwest and the partly basaltic northern stone forest in the northeast, which geologically resembles the imperial forest. The base of Steinwald granite is distributed from the north outside roughly through the places ( Waldershof -) Hohenhard (on the edge of the Pilgramsreuther saddle), (Fuchsmühl-) Herzogöd (on the ridge) and Fuchsmühl (at the transition to the Naab-Wondreb-Senke) framed.

mountains

The following surveys of the natural area are worth mentioning (arranged according to height above sea level, a description of the location follows after the dash):

Waters

A section of the European main watershed runs over the Steinwald (natural area) , or more precisely: the watershed between Eger / Elbe in the northeast and Naab / Danube in the southwest. The watershed, starting from the area of ​​the saddle between the Kosseine ( 939  m ) and the stone forest above the Langentheilener tunnel at 606  m , initially runs in a north-west-south-east direction to the basalt summit of Harlachberg ( 686  m ) on the border of the Pilgrammsreuther saddle. In the stone forest, it climbs over the Knock ( 845  m , Knockfelsen natural monument ) to the Platte ( 946  m ) in order to now follow the main ridge line to the northeast. At the Kleine Teichelberg ( 707  m ) it leaves the ridge to the southeast to the Torberg ( 561  m ) northeast of Fuchsmühl , where it leaves the natural area as a whole and curves in an arc, counterclockwise, to the northeast towards Mitterteich .

Immediately on the southwest flank of the Torberg, the Wiesau leaves at about 526  m above sea level. NHN the natural area in the direction of Waldnaab ; further to the south-west, the south-east flank of the stone forest drains mainly via the system of the Heinbach to the Fichtelnaab , which also, upstream, takes up the streams of the stone forest flowing to the south-west and the natural area at around 473  m above sea level. NHN northwest of Erbendorf at its lowest point.

The north-eastern part of the Steinwald-southeast slope in turn drains over the Wondreb to the Eger. The Seibertsbach, for example, flows parallel to the A 93 down the slope to the southeast and leaves the natural area at around 526  m above sea level. NHN . The Lausnitz flows further northeast, roughly parallel to it, which , however, leads into the Lausnitzer Randberge immediately behind the natural boundary .

The brooks on the northwest flank drain practically all of them via the Kössein and its Röslau receiving water to the Eger; only the Feisnitz , at whose valley near the Feisnitz reservoir ( 504  m above sea level ) the natural area ends to the north, flows directly into the Röslau.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i The Fichtel Mountains in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government : main ridge line, watersheds, natural areas and main mountains ( notes )
  2. ↑ a b Within the boundaries of the LfU, the Steinwald has an area of ​​153.8 km² and the Pilgramsreuther Sattel an area of ​​61.8 km². However, according to this demarcation, the Pilgramsreuther Sattel goes as far as the main ridge of the Steinwald near Herzogös (summit directly on the hamlet: 751 m) and even crossed the 770 m line northwest of the Plößberg. Since all other natural boundaries, even those from 394-A to 395-A north of the Schneeberg, remain below 700 m, it can only be a mistake. If you extend the border line northeast of the 725 m high mountain peak to the west of the 707 m high Kleiner Teichelberg by the 690 m height line, the stone forest area increases by about 4.9 km² and that of the Pilgramsreuther saddle decreases accordingly.
  3. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Ed.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  4. ^ Regional structure of Bavaria by the LfU
  5. ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  6. ↑ GeoViewer of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials ( information )
  7. ↑ For the affiliation of the Herzogöder Kuppe to the natural area see also the comments below in Pilgramsreuther Sattel # Berge !
  8. ↑ The name “book” is obviously a field name.