Foreland of the southern Franconian Alb

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The foreland of the southern Franconian Jura is a natural area of the Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land and lies in the area of ​​the Central Franconian districts of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , Roth and Ansbach as well as in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries . The foreland of the southern Franconian Jura represents a main unit in the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land in the south-west German layer level country. The foreland covers an area of ​​691 square kilometers.

geography

The foreland of the southern Franconian Alb is spatially limited by the mountain ranges of the Franconian Alb in the south, the Nördlinger Ries and the Middle Franconian Basin . The area is characterized by a wide, heavily agriculturally used open landscape with meadows and fields. The broad valley floodplain of the Altmühl divides the area into two areas: the western part is higher than the eastern part and is shaped by the Wörnitz , the east is divided by the tributaries of the Swabian Rezat and the Thalach . The European main watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube , runs through the foreland of the southern Franconian Jura.

There are only a few forest areas. The terrain is flat to hilly, some witness mountains protrude from the landscape, such as the Flüglinger Berg , the Trommetsheimer Berg and the Schloßberg . The highest point is the 689 meter high Hesselberg . The area is located in the Altmühltal Nature Park and in the south of the Franconian Lake District .

The Weißenburg Bay is bounded by the Alb eaves; on the Albtrauf are the highest peaks of the Franconian Alb, which all fall into the foreland, including the Dürrenberg , the Yellow Mountain , the Wülzburger Berg and the Rohrberg .

Natural structure

The foreland of the Southern Franconian Alb is divided into:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11000 foreland of the southern Franconian Alb ( memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BfN landscape profile , accessed on October 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfn.de
  2. ↑ Topographical Maps , BayernAtlas , Bavarian Surveying Administration
  3. ^ Franz Tichy : Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  4. ↑ The paper Bamberg, which was published outside of the series, leads under 110.4 Staufer Vorberge .

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 7.6 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 37.2 ″  E