Weilburger Lahn valley area

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The Weilburger Lahntal area is a natural spatial unit within the Gießen-Koblenz-Lahntal between the city of Leun and the Villmar district of Aumenau. In addition to the canon-like deepening of the lower valley of the river, it also includes the accompanying flat, undulating planes that form the trough surface of the Lahn valley.

Natural areas in the Limburg region ( Limburg-Weilburg district )

description

Between Taunus and Westerwald there is an approximately 8 km wide, flat undulating leveling that hardly exceeds 300 m in height. The Weilburger Lahntal has sunk 60 to 80 m deep into this. Its upper section runs as a widening of the Löhnberg valley on the northwestern edge of the area and is tectonically laid out, as can be seen from the mineral springs in the Biskirchen / Selters area that arise from the fracture zones . The relatively wide Sohlental shows an asymmetrical profile with open terraced corridors north and west of the Lahn, facing steep, wooded slopes. In the Weilburg-Aumenauer Lahntal that follows, the river turns south with the two loops of Weilburg and Kirschhofen until it reaches the Villmar Bay at the Aumenau bend and enters the Limburg basin to the west . The trough area is cut from this narrow and steep Untertal into the Gaudernbacher Platte west of the river and the Edelsberg-Braunfelser Platte opposite . The complex folds of the geological Lahn basin with widespread volcanic rocks ( keratophyr , diabase , scarf stone ), strips of slate and mass limestone ( Lahn marble , Kubach crystal cave ) and iron stone deposits can be found underground . The Braunfelser Platte has more forest cover on poorer soils, while on the somewhat lower Edelsberger Platte there is more arable land with partial loess cover , e.g. B. on the flat ridge between Lahn and Weinbach. The same applies to the corresponding parts of the Gaudernbacher Platte. Forest is found on flat soils on ridges (e.g. Runkeler Wald ) and valley slopes. In terms of climate, the area is closer to the Limburg Basin than the cooler and more humid plateaus of the Westerwald and Taunus due to its rather low location.

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  • Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  • Environmental Atlas Hesse
  • literature
    • Feuerstein, B .: The natural spaces of our district. 2005 yearbook for the district of Limburg-Weilburg, district committee of the district of Limburg, Weilburg, 2004, p. 251.