Bavarian Alpine Foreland

As Bavarian foothills of the Alps, the area is called south of the Danube, which is located in the north of the Bavarian Alps lying flat and hilly foothills. It has been reshaped by the influence of the ice ages and delighted by its variety of diverse landforms. Among other things, the moraine hills, gravelly Sander and lakes documented in this area, the elements of the glacial series.

The Bavarian foothills of the Alps is crossed by the rivers Iller, Wertach, Lech, Isar and Inn, the western boundary is the boundary of the administrative region of Swabia ( Bavaria ) to Baden- Württemberg and the eastern border of the river Salzach. Largest city in the region is Munich, which is situated in the foothills of the Alps on the Isar.

In the natural spatial structure according to the since the 1950s, serving as the standard reference manual of the biogeographic division of Germany there are four natural space large regions on German soil. The Northern Alpine foreland with Danube -Iller -Lech - plate ( 04), Isar -Inn- gravel plate ( 05) and sub- Bavarian hill country (06 ) and the Southern foothills of the Alps, which is referred to in the manual as Voralpines hill and moorland ( 03). In subsequent publications of the 1990s ( single sheets Lindau and Kaufbeuren, Hansjörg Dongus ) was the Southern foothills of the Alps, removed, for t even from the northern foothills of the Alps, in addition, the new Greater Region Nagelfluhhöhen and sinks between Lake Constance and Wertach (02) with Adelegg and pledges. The as 03 remaining, split large part of the Southern foothills of the Alps is called in those divisions than subalpine young moraine.

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