Treuchtlinger gate
The Treuchtlinger Pforte is a natural area (082.21) of the southern Franconian Alb in the south-west German stepland . It is part of the Altmühlalb , which in turn belongs to the southern Franconian Alb.
Geographical description
The natural area is surrounded by the Altmühltrichter (110.30) in the north-west, the Weimersheimer Platte (110.31) in the north and the Urrezattal (110.32) in the north-northeast, the three sub-areas of the Weißenburger Bay in the foothills of the southern Franconian Alb , and the Upper Almühlalb (082.22) in the east , South and west.
Through the Treuchtlinger Pforte, the Altmühl , which takes up the two branches of the Schambach from the east and the Möhrenbach from the southwest, enters the Alb body. Here, with the participation of the original Rezat , she created a small funnel. Since the European main watershed (at a height of 419 m above sea level ) on the edge of the catchment area of the Swabian Rezat is only seven meters above the level of the Altmühl , Charlemagne had already initiated the construction of the Fossa Carolina canal across it. Separated from the rest of the Alb by the partly waterless valleys, the large and mostly wooded Nagelberg ( 542 m above sea level ) and the Gäblingberg ( 441 m above sea level ) and Weinberg ( 460 m ) stand in the middle of the natural area from north to south above sea level ), while the neighboring Franconian Alb mountains have heights of up to 600 m above sea level. Reach NHN and the outflowing Altmühl at the southeast corner of the natural area at about 407 m above sea level. Leaves NHN at the beginning of its breakthrough valley.
There are very moist, boggy biotopes on the river , but also dry grasslands. In the wide valley area there are not only meadows but also numerous fields. In the adjoining quarries, a coarse banked - in the old Quenstedt structure - white Jura δ is extracted, which is called Jura marble , but from a petrographic point of view is not marble .
colonization
The largest place is the eponymous Treuchtlingen . Other localities are the Treuchtlingen districts of Graben , Gstadt and Dietfurt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Jätzold: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 172 Nördlingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 3.9 MB)