Stuttgart Bay

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View from the television tower into the Stuttgart boiler

The Stuttgart Bay is the natural area 105 of the Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land in the south-west German stepland .

location

The Stuttgarter Bucht is an eaves bay of the Keuperstufe with higher reed sandstone ridges, in which wide valleys as foothills of the nearby Gäuplatten and extensions of the Keuperhöhen interlock and create a particularly colorful structure of shapes, soils and the local climate. The Neckar emerging from the Keuperstufe at Türkheim and its two left tributaries, Nesenbach and Feuerbach, divide the edge of the step between Fellbach in the east and Weilimdorf in the west into three closely linked sub-basins.

Natural structure

Overall, the Stuttgart Bay is divided into the following natural subunits:

  • 105.1 Neckar funnel
  • 105.2 Nesenbach Bay ( Stuttgart Kessel )
  • 105.3 Feuerbach Bay
  • 105.4 Stuttgart-Ostheimer edge heights

The Neckar flows in the main muschelkalk near Bad Cannstatt . The difference in height between the Keuperstufen area (420–440 m above sea ​​level ) and the valley floor (200–220 m) is over 200 m.

The Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital Stuttgart is located in the Nesenbach basin , whose residential districts, which have grown together from several suburbs, now cover the entire slopes, while the administrative and business districts occupy the Nesenbachaue and lower terraces. In order to compensate for the unfavorable boiler position, engineering structures are necessary for traffic. Bad Cannstatt, which owes its function as a seaside resort to the vadose sour waters rising here , as well as Türkheim, the eastern industrial suburbs and shunting stations, use the favorable location of the open Neckar funnel. The northern industrial and residential suburbs of Feuerbach , Weilimdorf and Zuffenhausen occupy the more open western bay zone.

climate

Climatically, the Stuttgart bay is the warmest and at the same time driest part of the Neckar basin. Annual precipitation varies between 630 and 680 mm.

Protected areas

The Stuttgarter Bucht is part of the FFH area No. 7220-311 Glemswald and Stuttgarter Bucht . Due to the high density, only small areas are designated as protected areas.

Protected area shares % Total landscape area
FFH areas 3.19
European bird sanctuaries 1.01
Nature reserves 1.47
Other protected areas 0
Effective proportion of the protected area 4.35

Source: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, as of 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Huttenlocher, Hansjörg Dongus: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952, revised 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)

literature

  • Friedrich Huttenlocher, Hansjörg Dongus: The natural space units on sheet 170 (Stuttgart) of the geographical land survey 1: 200000 of the natural space structure of Germany, Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg, 1967

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