Witzenhausen – Hedemündener Werratal

The Werra valley east of Witzenhausen

The Witzenhausen-Hedemündener Werra Valley is the northernmost part of the Lower Werra Valley within the Lower Werrabergland natural area in the Werra-Meißner district and in the district of Göttingen in the border area of Hesse and Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The section of the Witzenhausen-Hedemündener Werra Valley begins above Witzenhausen and ends northwest of Hedemünden , a district of Hann. Münden , where the Werra and Fulda merge to form the Weser . The length of the valley is approximately 13 kilometers in a north-west-south-east direction.

Natural allocation

The Witzenhausen-Hedemündener Werratal is assigned as follows according to the Kassel sheet :

• (to 35 East Hessian mountains )
  • (to 358 Lower Werrabergland )
    • 358.4 Witzenhausen-Hedemündener Werra Valley

nature

Cycle path on the Werra near Hedemünden

The Witzenhausen-Hedmündener Werra Valley encompasses the flat valleys of the Werra and is bordered by the following, mostly wooded elevations and ridges:

• Dransfeld plateaus (large head: 385 m) in the north
• Sand forest (Kobelsberg: 378 m) in the northeast
• Neuseesen-Werleshäuser heights ( level : approx. 320 m) in the east
• Soodener Bergland (Sulzberg: 299 m) in the extreme southeast
• Hinterer Kaufunger Wald (Rodeberg: 340 m) and the plateau of the Kaufunger Wald (Burned Head: 380 m) in the southwest

Attractions

• Old town of Witzenhausen with the ethnological museum and greenhouse for tropical crops
• Castle in Ermschwerd
• Ziegenhagen adventure park

Individual evidence

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

Web links

Commons : Witzenhausen – Hedemündener Werratal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• BfN profile: Werra valley