Lower Werrabergland

With Lower Werra Bergland is the valley of the Werra of Treffurt ( Wartburg district , Thuringia ) about Eschwege , Bad Sooden-Allendorf and Witzenhausen ( Werra-Meissner , Hessen ) to Hedemünden ( district Goettingen , Lower Saxony ) in the north called and ridges on both sides, especially but to the right of the river. It is mainly located in the Hessian Werra-Meißner district and, to the right of the Werra, in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld , while only marginal parts are in the Wartburg district, Unstrut-Hainich district (both TH) and the district of Göttingen (NI).

The Lower Werrabergland represents a natural spatial main unit of the main unit group Osthessisches Bergland . Although there are distinctive independent mountain ranges of different geological structures like the Gobert (up to 569 m, Muschelkalk ), the Höheberg (up to 509 m, Buntsandstein ) and the Soodener Bergland (up to 490 m, Oberdevon ), its original name was in the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany (6th delivery 1959 and sheet Kassel 1969) Unteres Werra valley . The most important landscape in the valley area is the Eschweg basin .

Natural structure

After Gobert and Wanfrieder Werrahöhen were explicitly assigned to the Lower Werra Heights in the 6th delivery (1959) of the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany , and the Eichenberg-Gotha-Saalfeld fault zone was explicitly cited as the boundary line to the Thuringian basin main unit group Both landscapes, unlike their roofing in red sandstone, are counted and numbered in the sheet Kassel to the edge plates of the basin. This is somewhat illogical in that the Gobert and its foreland in particular represent a self-contained layered landscape and the fault zone draws a clear dividing line, also in geological terms. The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) now counts these landscapes (again) as part of the Lower Werrabergland.

Overall, the following breakdown results in natural partial landscapes:

Werraschleife at Lindewerra;
on the right in the foreground the spur of the Höheberg, beyond the Werra the Soodener Bergland

Frozen Werra near Eschwege

Werratal near Witzenhausen with the Neuseesen-Werleshäuser heights

(to 35 East Hessian mountains )
- 358 Lower Werrabergland (originally: Lower Werratal )
  - 358.0 Under Werra saddle
    - 358.00 Kleinalmeröder hill country
    - 358.01 Lower Gelster valley
    - 358.02 Soodener Bergland ( Oberdevon , up to 490 m; west of Bad Soodens )
    - 358.03 Meissner foreland
  - 358.1 Treffurt-Wanfrieder Werratal (Werratal)
  - 358.2 Eschweg basin
    - 358.20 Schwebda - Jestädter Werraaue
    - 358.21 Eschweger hill country
      - Leuchtberge (singularity, up to 319 m)
      - Blauer Kuppe (Singularity, 339 m)
    - 358.22 weirs lowering
    - 358.23 Weidenhäuser hills
    - 358.24 Wernersbergzug (up to 410 m, red sandstone )
  - 358.3 Sooden-Allendorfer Werra Valley
    - 358.30 Albunger Werra Valley
    - 358.31 Allendorfer widening
    - 358.32 Lindewerra - Werleshäuser Schlingen
  - 358.4 Witzenhausen – Hedemündener Werratal (from above Witzenhausen to below Hedemündens )
  - 358.5 Rosoppe-Frieda Bay
    - 358.50 Rosoppe-Frieda hill country
    - 358.51 Misseröder limestone ridges (various rocks, up to 424 m)
    - 358.52 Southern Gobert Foreland
  - 358.6 Höheberg (up to 509 m, red sandstone)
  - 358.7 Fretteröder Keupersenke
  - 358.8 Neuseesen-Werleshäuser heights (up to 354 m, red sandstone)
  - 358.9 sand forest (up to 477 m, red sandstone)

Hessian Switzerland in the Gobert

(numbered to 47/48 Thuringian Basin (with edge plates) )
- (numbered to 483 Ringgau – Hainich – Obereichsfeld – Dün – Hainleite )
  - 483.1 Allendorfer Forest
    - 483.10 Gobert (up to 569 m, shell limestone )
    - 483.11 Weidenbach-Mackenröder depression (in Muschelkalk up to 411 m; various rocks)
  - (numbered to 483.2 western upper area )
    - 483.21 Upper Friedatal area (in Muschelkalk up to 470 m; various rocks)
    - 483.22 Wanfrieder Werrahöhen (up to 485 m, shell limestone)

All landscapes up to and including 358.4 are located in the Werra Valley or to the left of it, all units from 358.5 are to the right of the Werra.

Werrabergland – Hörselberge

The Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology uses a somewhat coarser own structure that only exists nationwide, within which the Lower Werrabergland, as far as it is located in Thuringia, is completely part of the Werrabergland – Hörselberge unit .

The Lower Werrabergland is supplemented by the following landscapes, which extend south to the Thuringian Forest :

The Great Hörselberg

(to 483 Ringgau – Hainich – Obereichsfeld – Dün – Hainleite)
- 483.20 Kalteneberer step edge area (without Heiligenstädter Stadtwald )
- 483.40-43 Ringgau (Muschelkalk, up to 515 m) inclusive
- 483.441 Engtal from Creuzburg in the Creuzburger Werra Gorge
- 483.51 Grundbach valley

(to 481 West Thuringian mountain and hill country )

Creuzburg – Eisenacher Graben (Muschelkalk and Härtlinge , up to 386 m)
Hörselberge (shell limestone, up to 484 m)

panorama

and display information about the image

View from the Bismarck Tower near Eschwege over large parts of the lower Werrabergland

Rivers

→ See list of tributaries of the Werra from 41-737? Höllgraben

Individual evidence

^ 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)

↑ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969 → online map

↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology

↑ Attention: Maps usually only show a 309 m high point beyond the summit! The 339 m correspond to the map of the German Empire, which is the basis for Blatt Kassel, and should therefore be somewhat inaccurate.

^ 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)

Web links

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[Meynen-1] 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)

[Blatt_112-2] Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969 → online map

[DE-HE_UA-3] Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology

[4] Attention: Maps usually only show a 309 m high point beyond the summit! The 339 m correspond to the map of the German Empire, which is the basis for Blatt Kassel, and should therefore be somewhat inaccurate.