Weissenburger Alb

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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 20.4 ″  E

Northwest flank of the Weißenburger Alb. In the foreground on the right the NSG Schambachried ; in the center of the picture the village of Schambach . The mountains on the left: Laubbuck and Kipferberg; to the right of Schambach the Hasenleite. Behind Schambach the Schambach valley.

The Weißenburger Alb is up to 620  m above sea level. NHN high, central northern part of the southern Franconian Jura in the Central Franconian districts of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is named after the district town of Weißenburg in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district.

geography

location

The Weißenburger Alb represents the northern spur on the Albtrauf of the southern Franconian Alb with the Altmühltal nature park between the Altmühl in the west and the Schwarzach in the east.

In general, the name is sometimes only understood to mean that part of the landscape belonging to the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , excluding the east in the Roth district . To the south-east, on both sides of the Altmühltal, the Eichstätter Alb connects , the extent of which is mostly limited to the Eichstätt district .

mountains

The mountains of the Weißenburger Alb and its northern witness mountains in the foreland of the Southern Franconian Alb (*) include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NHN):

→ see also: List of mountains and elevations in the Franconian Alb

Forest and valley landscape

Forest areas of the Weißenburger Alb are the Raitenbucher Forst , the Wildhau , the Schernfelder Forst and the Weißenburger Stadtwald . There are numerous karst phenomena such as sinkholes and collapse caves in them .

Flowing waters

The Alb plateau is intersected by the following river valleys of the Danube river system (counterclockwise, from west to east, sorted according to the point of mouth):

Rivers that drain north to the Main , on the other hand, flow through the foreland of the southern Franconian Jura outside of their source area (clockwise, from west to east):

Arid valleys

In addition to the water-bearing valleys, there are also dry valleys in the Weißenburger Alb , such as Laubental and Heuberger Tal , which flow into the Treuchtlinger Schambachtal .

Natural features

As natural features are a Steinerne Rinne at Ettenstätter community town of Rohrbach and the nature reserve " Märzenbecher forest near Ettenstatt " at Ettenstätter community town of Hundsdorf .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
    • Map service landscapes shows the boundaries of individual partial landscapes and makes landscape profiles with area information (82xxx = Southern Franconian Alb, 11000 = foreland of the Southern Franconian Alb) clickable
    • Map service for protected areas shows mountain heights down to TK 25;
      Nature reserves, FFH areas, nature parks (each with area information), main units and communal boundaries can be displayed
  2. ↑ a b The height above sea ​​level (NHN) of the Wülzburger Berg ( 620  m ) should not be confused with the platform height of the Roßmühle bastion ( 643.8  m ), which is part of the Wülzburg fortress there (both heights according to the individual evidence of the BfN map services ) .
  3. ^ Definition of the Weißenburger Alb according to: E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : Manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany (second delivery) - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen, 1955

literature

  • Altmuehltal Nature Park (Southern Franconian Alb). Leaf west. Munich: Bavarian Surveying Office, approx. 1981 (with tourist information on the reverse)