Záhorie (landscape)
Záhorie (pronounced "-ie", literally 'Hinterbergland'), also Záhorská nížina ('Zahorie-Tiefland'), German (windy) Marchauen , Hungarian: Erdőhát , is a landscape in the northwest of Slovakia .
designation
The name means in German about 'land behind the mountains' (Slovak za 'behind' and hory , 'Pl.' From mountain). This probably refers to the Little Carpathians, which border them in the east, they are remote from the Slovak heartland. In the system of geomorphological division of Slovakia (Geomorfologické členenie Slovenska) the name is Záhorská nížina . The official name of the corresponding tourist region is Záhorský región cestovného ruchu.
Location and landscape
The flat, undulating flat to hilly landscape of the Záhorie belongs to the Thaya - March valley, part of the Vienna basin (Viedenská kotlina). In the west, the landscape ends on the Austrian border on the March (Morava) and also includes the Slovak part of the March lowland , the other side of the river is in the Weinviertel . The Dolnomoravský úval (plain of the Upper March, seen as an independent regional unit in the geomorphological classification) extends on the Czech border with Moravia . The area is bounded by the White Carpathians (Biele Karpaty) to the east and the Little Carpathians (Malé Karpaty) to the south-east .
Major cities in the region are Malacky , Stupava and Senica .
Administratively, the following districts belong to the tourist region:
- Malacky (except Borinka , Stupava and Marianka municipalities )
- Myjava (only the municipalities of Brezová pod Bradlom , Bukovec , Košariská and Priepasné )
- Senica
- Skalica
The communities Borinka, Stupava, Marianka are also included in the general understanding of the Záhorie landscape, as is the Bratislava district of Záhorská Bystrica .
Besides the March itself, the main river in the region is the Myjava .
The landscape is divided into three regions:
- Horné Záhorie (Upper Zahorie) in the north, around Holíč and Skalica
- Stredné Záhorie (Middle Zahorie), on the Myjava around Šaštín-Stráže and Senica
- Dolné Záhorie (Lower Zahorie) on the lowest March around Malacky and Devínska Nová Ves
The hilly northern part is the Chvojnická pahorkatina (hill country of the Chvojnica ), with the Dyjsko-moravská niva (Thaya-March floodplains) in the northwest , the east of the flat southern part is the Borská nížina (Bor plain), the western edge forms the Dolnomoravská niva (Au der Unteren March) with the northern part.
nature
The area is partly forested, but the majority of it is used intensively for agriculture , although this use is limited by the scarcity of water and the resulting artificial irrigation.
From a nature conservation point of view, both the west of the Záhorie, with the Marchauen, and the east, which extends into the Little Carpathians, are interesting. Therefore large parts of the Záhorie are under nature protection.
These areas are:
- Landscape protection area Záhorie (Chránená krajinná oblasť / CHKO Záhorie )
- Small Carpathian Protected Landscape Area (CHKO Malé Karpaty )
In Austria the national park and European protected areas border Donau-March-Thaya-Auen , there is intensive cross-border cooperation.
Culture
The residents of Záhorie, the Záhoráci (literally: "Hinterbergler"), speak a characteristic dialect that is close to Czech . As is customary in the country, they are the subject of numerous jokes and ironic remarks by the Slovak population and in this respect correspond roughly to the Burgenland in Austria or the East Frisians in Germany.
See also
literature
- Gunnar Strunz: Bratislava: With Donautieland, Little Carpathians and Záhorie. Reisen series , Trescher Verlag, 2017, ISBN 9783897943711 , especially p. 178 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lit. Strunz 2017, p. 178
- ↑ Nature reserves in the Malacky region , accessed on May 15, 2010.