Usinger basin

The Usinger Basin is located in the eastern Hintertaunus , in the south-eastern part of the Taunus low mountain range . It takes its name from the town of Usingen in the middle of the basin in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse .

Usinger basin from the Pfaffenkopf (Eschbach)

geography

The Usinger Basin lies at a height of 270 to 300 m and is heavily sunken and less mountainous compared to the surrounding plateaus in the west, north and east, as well as the Taunus ridge in the south. Surrounding clods , which are separated from the deep clod by steep slopes, tower over the basin by several hundred meters. The Usinger Basin is only curved, faults and crevices, as in the Golden Ground of the Idsteiner Senke , are hardly to be found. The area is mainly used for agriculture and is framed by the wooded heights. The southern sub-basin of Wehrheim is drained from the Stahlnhainer Grund by the Erlenbach , which after a shady Köpperner narrow valley reaches the Nidda as a receiving water. The valley watershed in the Usingen Basin runs from the Langhals (573.5 m) over the Wacht (405 m) and the Platte (374 m) to Oberloh (349 m). The Wehrheim sub-basin is about 70 m higher than the Usinger basin, into which the Erlenbach originally flows over the Heisterbachtälchen , where the deposits of the Ur-Erlenbach can still be found today.

Usinger basin near Wehrheim to the south to the eastern Taunus main ridge with the Großer Feldberg (center)

Usinger Basin in winter

Natural structure

The Usinger Basin is a natural part of the Eastern Hintertaunus:

• 302 Eastern Hintertaunus
  • 302.5 Usinger Basin (87.50 km²)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eugen Ernst: The Taunus - A L (i) worthwhile low mountain range. Societäts-Verlag, 2009, pp. 28–31.
2. ↑ Map ( Taunus & Gießen-Koblenzer Lahntal ) and legend ( Taunus ) -  attention: web links without return!  - Environmental Atlas Hessen of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology: The natural areas of Hesse and their main units

literature

• Eugen Ernst: HB Naturmagazin outside the Hochtaunus Nature Park. Hamburg 1983
• Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh: Heimat Hochtaunus. Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 .
• Alexander Stahr, Birgit Bender: The Taunus - A journey through time. Borntraeger-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-510-65224-2 .
• Eugen Ernst: The Taunus - An L (i) worthwhile low mountain range. Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1146-7 .

Web links

Commons : Usinger Basin  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• The Usinger Basin and the eastern Hintertaunus