Ursental (valley)
The Ursental is a north-northeast side valley to the Danube near Nendingen , a district of Tuttlingen in the district of the same name in Baden-Württemberg.
The Ursental was amended by today comparatively small seemingly Kesselbach created no longer run its overall length of less than four kilometers than three kilometers to the lower valley. The Ursental is a dry valley above its origin, which under this name extends for seven more kilometers to the north-northwest. There it forks at the valley crossing of the K 5901 near Aggenhausen south of the Old Mountain into the northwestern Birental and the much shorter Storchentale, which continues in the same direction .
In the lower valley area, two side valleys start to the west, one about one kilometer long that flows steeply from Risiberg in the west a little downhill from the Jellenbrunnen and further down a two kilometer long one that curves in an arc from the southwest at the height of Rußberg and at the foot of the former castle Wallenburg reached the main valley. At the last straight section of the valley, the short Seuten sound Brunnentäle and Meisentäle from the northeast down from the Bräunisberg .
The valley is narrow, because it is in the tough with steep edges Jurassic - limestones of the Swabian Alb is buried. Its bottom is up to 200 m lower than the surrounding plateaus of the Great Heuberg . The raised humps there reach up to 1000 m above sea level. NHN , while about Nendingen on the Danube at the valley exit at 637 m above sea level. NHN lies. Due to its great length, it allows a flat ascent from the Danube valley near Tuttlingen to the plateau, but there is no major traffic route in it.
At a distance of about three kilometers in the east-northeast, the Lipbach runs in an almost parallel valley to the confluence with the Danube near Mühlheim an der Donau . To the west, the Faulenbach also drains to the Danube near Tuttlingen at a more fluctuating distance and a much wider valley .
The Ursental under the name Ursental with bottom Bräunisberg a conservation area under the Natura 2000 and belongs entirely to the Upper Danube Nature Park . It is known for its wild garlic forests that bloom in spring .
The Ursental is not populated. There is a large ski slope in the northern part of the village of Aggenhausen, which was lost in the 17th century . A little road leads from Nendingen up the valley, but it is only paved as far as the source of the Ursentalbach , where there is a playground. The Heuberg-Allgäu-Weg (HW 9) of the Swabian Alb Association leads through the valley .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 8 ° 50 ′ 6 ″ E