Weissenburg Bay
The Weißenburger Bucht is a natural area of the Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land and lies almost entirely in the area of the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The city of Weißenburg in Bavaria is the namesake of the natural area. The Weißenburger Bucht represents a sub-unit of the foreland of the southern Franconian Jura in the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land in the south-west German layer level country .
geography
The Weißenburger Bucht is bounded by the two mountain ranges of the Franconian Alb , the Hahnenkamm in the southwest and the Weißenburger Alb in the southeast. To the north in the adjacent Central Franconian Basin located splitters hills on. The area is characterized by a wide open landscape with meadows and fields as well as the wide valley floodplain traversed by the Altmühl and the kilometer-long furrow dug by the Swabian Rezat . The European main watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube , runs through the Weißenburg Bay .
The Ellinger Forest is one of the few forest areas in the Weißenburg Bay . The terrain in Weißenburger Bucht is flat to hilly, some witness mountains protrude from the landscape, for example the Flüglinger Berg , the Trommetsheimer Berg and the Schloßberg . 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 its edge and in the bay are the highest peaks of the Franconian Alb, including the Dürrenberg , the Yellow Mountain , the Wülzburger Berg and the Rohrberg .
Natural structure
The Weißenburg Bay is divided into:
- 110.3 Weissenburg Bay
- 110.30 Altmühl funnel
- 110.31 Weimersheim plate
- 110.32 Foreland of the Weißenburger Alb
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topographical Maps , BayernAtlas , Bavarian Surveying Administration
- ^ 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)
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '27.7 " N , 10 ° 55' 57.3" E