Vienenburg plain

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The Vienenburg plain is a plateau on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains , named after the place Vienenburg in Goslar .

nature

The Vienenburg Plain is a flat plateau that was created by the gravel of the rivers originating from or on the Harz Mountains and is crossed by today's waters in alluvial channels that abruptly sink into the terrain. The southern transition into the northern Harz is characterized by gravel floors, which are covered by a thin veil of loess with good quality brown earth ; to the south the thickness of the loess layer increases and the soil quality improves to parabrown earth .

location

The Vienenburg plain extends between the floodplains of the rivers Oker in the west and Ilse , the foothills of the northern Upper Harz (510 1 .4) in the south and the Harly and Großer Fallstein in the north over an area of ​​roughly 150 square kilometers. Important places in or on the Vienenburger level are Goslar, Bad Harzburg , Vienenburg, Ilsenburg and Osterwieck .

Natural allocation

The Vienenburg plain was assigned to the Harzburg foothills of the Harz Mountains (510.1) in the main unit Northern Harz foothills (510) as sub-unit 510.11 in the regional geographic survey of the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning .

literature

  • H. Schroeder: Explanations on the geological map of Prussia and neighboring states . Delivery 174. Sheet Vienenburg. 1912 ( geo-leo.de [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Goslar: Justification for the development plan of the city of Goslar No. Vbg 042 "Liethberg IV" .
  2. ↑ a b Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)