Vogtland (natural area)

Vogtland
surface	3 467 km²
2nd order natural space	Low mountain range threshold
3rd order natural space	39, 41 → ; Thuringian-Franconian-Vogtland low mountain range
Natural space	041 → ; Vogtland
	Natural area characteristics
Landscape type	Submontane plateau
	Geographical location
Coordinates	50 ° 32 '2 " N , 12 ° 1' 2.3" E Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '2 " N , 12 ° 1' 2.3" E
	Location Vogtland
state	Thuringia , Bavaria , Saxony
Country	Germany , Czech Republic

The Vogtland is a natural spatial main unit group based on the historical Vogtland according to the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany , which is located in Saxony , Thuringia and, to a lesser extent, in northern Bavaria .

The natural area of Vogtland differs noticeably from the historical one, whose high elevations in the (south) east from a natural area point of view must already be assigned to the Western Ore Mountains.

The main river of the Vogtland is the White Elster , which rises in the south of the Upper Vogtland, in the Elster Mountains , and leaves the Vogtland near Gera . In the west, the Vogtland is traversed by the Saale , whose valley from Hof to Saalfeld is part of the main western units.

Usual assignments of the landscape parts

The Vogtland is divided into only three main units, which were not regarded as one unit in the common divisions of the GDR :

The East Thuringian-Vogtland plateaus in the northwest with the Ronneburg arable and mining area in the extreme north of the overall landscape are almost completely located in Thuringia and are usually assigned to the Thuringian Slate Mountains as the East Thuringian Slate Mountains , which in the manual is limited to the main ridge between the Thuringian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains . In the inner- Thuringian structure The natural areas of Thuringia of the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology , its core land is assigned to the East Thuringian Slate Mountains – Vogtland unit , which includes the small central Vogtland parts (especially near Greiz ).

The predominantly Saxon main units Middle Vogtland Kuppenland and Upper Vogtland in the southeastern part are assigned to the Saxon Uplands and Central Uplands in the breakdown of natural spaces in Saxony of the Saxon Academy of Sciences under Vogtland , with the Elstergebirge as a separate unit , whereby the fringes of the East Thuringian Slate Mountains (mainly around Pausa / Vogtland ), but not the marginal portions of the Ronneburg arable and mining area.

Natural structure

The natural spatial main unit group Vogtland is divided according to the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany as follows into main units (three digits) and according to works such as The natural areas of Thuringia and natural areas in Saxony, in particular into the sub-units:

41 (= D17 according to BfN ) Vogtland
- 410 East Thuringian-Vogtland plateaus
  - Ronneburg arable and mining area
  - Plothener pond plate
  - Upper Saale valley between Hirschberg and Saalfeld
- 411 Central Vogtland hill country
  - Upper Saale valley between Hof and Hirschberg
- 412 Upper Vogtland
  - Bergen basin (island-like "witness basin" of the Ore Mountains )
  - Kirchberg Basin (geologically already part of the Ore Mountains, but geomorphologically attributable to the Vogtland)
  - Elstergebirge (geologically on the Erzgebirgs-Fichtelgebirgs plaice)

For geology, see Thuringian-Franconian-Vogtland Slate Mountains , for allocation in particular the corresponding section .

Individual evidence

↑ Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany

^ Walter Hiekel, Frank Fritzlar, Andreas Nöllert and Werner Westhus: The natural spaces of Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), Thuringian Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment . 2004, ISSN 0863-2448 . → Natural area map of Thuringia (TLUG) - PDF; 260 kB → Maps by district (TLUG)
↑ Map of the natural areas in Saxony ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at www.umwelt.sachsen.de (PDF, 859 kB), as of 2001
^ E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960)

General sources

BfN
- Map services
- Landscape profiles of the Vogtland:
  - High elevations of the East Thuringian-Vogtland plateaus and the Central Vogtland hill country
  - Upper Saale Valley
  - Northern East Thuringian-Vogtland plateaus (without pond plate)
  - Plothener pond plate
  - Ronneburg arable and mining area (northeastern East Thuringian-Vogtland plateau)
  - Lower layers of the Central Vogtland hill country
  - Middle-high areas of the Upper Vogtland
  - Lower layers of the Upper Vogtland

[1] Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany