East Hesse Highlands

Osthessisches Bergland is a name for a mostly in Hesse -lying in the north but also minimal to Lower Saxony in the east to Thuringia and south-east to Bavaria vordringendes, richly forested low mountain country between the West Hessian Depression in the west, the Weser Uplands in the north, the Thuringian Basin in North East, the North West edge of the Thuringian Forest to the east, the Spessart in the south and the Wetterau in the southwest.

The Osthessische Bergland is a natural spatial feature unit group ( 35 or D47 ) and is both part of the Central European Low Mountain Range and the Rhine -Weser watershed.

The West and Osthessisches Bergland summary Hessian mountain country corresponds to the geological assembly of the Hessian Depression in a broader sense, since geologically younger strata of the Zechstein and Buntsandstein, sometimes even younger rocks of the Muschelkalk, the Lower Jurassic and the Tertiary have been preserved.

Table 4.1 of the main rivers

Nature regions

The following main units ( three-digit codes ) distinguishes the Environmental Atlas Hessen:

35 Osthessisches Bergland 350 Lower Vogelsberg 350.1 Northern Lower Vogelsberg
350.2 Northwestern Lower Vogelsberg
350.3 Lower Eastern Vogelsberg
350.4 Western Lower Vogelsberg
350.5 Southern Lower Vogelsberg
350.6 Gieseler Forestry

351.1 Eastern Hoher Vogelsberg
351.2 Upper Forest

352.0 Fliedetal
352.1 Fulda basin
352.2 Grossenlueder - Lauterbach ditch

353.0 ridge
353.1 Western Rhön foreland
353.2 Kuppenrhön
353.3 Eastern Rhön foreland

354.0 Southern Hohe Rhön
354.1 Hochrhön

355.0 Ottrauer Bergland
355.1 Schlitzerland
355.2 Kämmerzell - Hersfelder Fulda Valley
355.3 Haune - plateaus
355.4 Kirchheimer Bergland

356.0 Western crumpled foothills
356.1 Eastern crumpled foothills
356.2 Hochknüll
356.3 Homberger Highlands

357.0 New Stone Louis Ecker ridge
357.1 Bebra - Fulda valley Melsunger
357.2 Solztrotten and Seulingswald
357.3 Sontraer hills
357.4 Stölzinger Bergland ( Stölzinger Mountains)
357.5 Witzenhausen Altmorschener Talung
357.6 Melsunger Bergland ( with Günsteroder height )
357.7 Kaufunger forest and Söhre
357.8 Meißnergebiet ( with High Meissner )
357.9 Sontra - Bergland ( with Schlierbachswald )

358.0 Under Saddle Werra
358.1 Treffurt - Wanfrieder Werra
358.2 Eschweger pool
358.3 Sooden- Allendorf Werra
358.4 Witzenhausen Hedemündener Werra
358.5 Rosoppe - Frieda- bay
358.6 altitude mountain
358.7 Fretteröder Keuper sink
358.8 Neuseesen - Werle houses heights
358.9 Sandwald
Gobert
Weidenbach -Mack Röder Valley
Upper Friedatalgebiet
Wanfrieder Werra heights

359.0 City Long fields hills
359.1 Salzungen - Herles Hausener Werra
359.2 Frauenseer hills

Landscape characteristics

The Osthessische Bergland closes immediately east to west to the Hessian mountain country and sinks. The sandstone is almost universally represented and with the exception of volcanic basalt overlaid with parts also largely surface- relief and decisive.

All outstanding mountain ranges are, at least partially, volcanic coined. Between the up to 754 m reach Hohe Meissner and up to 643 m high Kaufunger forest in the north, to the maximum 636 m high crumpled in the center, to 773 high Vogelsberg in the southwest and up to 950 m high Rhön in the Southeast often recur individual singularities on documenting the volcanic activity between two low mountain ranges.

Location of each main units

The north of the main unit group takes the Fulda- Werra- Meißner and mountains with High Kaufunger a forest, which flattens in the northeast to the Lower Werra country in the southeast to the Salt Unger Werra Bergland. Southwest follows the crumpled highlands, south the Fulda- Haune - plateau and south-east the front and Kuppenrhön ( with ridge ), which merges to the southeast in the Hohe Rhön.

South of the Fulda- Haune - table-land, west of the Rhön eventually follow Lower and Upper Vogelsberg, the former being the zweiteren annularly surrounds.

Mountains (selection)

Water cap ( 950.2 m, Hohe Rhön )
Kreuzberg ( 927.8 m, Bayerische Rhön High )
Dammersfeldkuppe ( 927.9 m, border of Hesse and Bavaria, Hohe Rhön )
Heidelstein ( 925.7 m, border of Hesse and Bavaria, Hohe Rhön )
Milseburg ( 835.2 m, the highest peak in the Rhön Mountains )
Kassel cap ( 753.6 m, Hoher Meißner )
Gebaberg ( 750.7 m, east of the Thuringian Rhön Front )
Pless ( 645.4 m, salt Unger Werra Bergland )
Hirschberg ( 643.4 m, Söhre )
Bilstein ( 641.2 m, Kaufunger Forest)
Eisenberg ( 635.5 m, crumpled )
Knüllköpfchen ( 633.8 m, crumpled )
Rimberg ( 591.8 m, south-east crumpled foothills in Ottrauer Bergland )

The main river is the Fulda, which leaves in its course from south to north, the area of Osthessischen hill country just before its confluence with the river Werra in the West Hesse Depression. Links of Fulda are crumpled and Vogelsberg, the right of it the main part of the Fulda- Werra- mountain country and the Rhön.

Rights tributaries of the almost entirely running in the middle and lower reaches in the west Hessian Depression Schwalm drain the west, left tributaries of the River Werra the East. The two rivers run only in the source ( Schwalm ) or mouth run ( Werra) in the hill country itself.

The tributaries north of the Rhine -Weser watershed, apart from the Ohm as the only tributary of the Lahn from, clearly aligned in north-south direction, while the tributaries of the main tributaries Nidda, Kinzig and Franconian Saale flow south.

Table of the major rivers

The following are the main rivers of the Osthessischen mountain country, clockwise, starting at the north side of the Rhine -Weser watershed at Vogelsberg, arranged, performed. For a better overview and sorting are downstream, depending on the flow system inserted into the DGKZ digits after the number for the respective main river hyphens. Italics river names and lengths indicate a river that the area of the hill country Osthessischen clearly leaves ( edge drain not included), italic basins and drains have a partly lying outside the catchment area with significant tributaries from outside the Osthessischen mountain country back (see the list below the table ). Main rivers are linked if they are completely outside.

( *: The source of Haune is, strictly speaking, still scarce in the western foothills Rhön, 353.1 **: The weirs springs, strictly speaking, in Romme Roder hills, 357.53, the eastern foothills of the Söhre )

The following parts of ( catchment areas ) enumerated rivers do not belong to Osthessischen Bergland:

Antrift - total central and lower reaches of the Upper Hessian threshold
Schwalm - almost all left tributaries in various parts of the West Hessian mountain country; River is located on the western border
Fulda - mouth movement that is on the northwest border; left tributaries above the Eder outside; in size from about the residual Fulda corresponding catchment area of the Eder is only right Schwalm inflows come from the Osthessischen Bergland, while Eder otherwise from Southshore Bergland ( headwaters ) fed up to the West Hessian mountain country.
Stray - underflow is in grave field
Brend - Central and underflow are, without significant inflows in the Spessart counted Südrhön
Sense - Central and underflow are, inter alia, in various parts of the Spessart
Bracht and Seemenbach - underruns are, without significant inflows in the Spessart forest counted Büdinger
Nidder - from the inflow of Seemenbaches course on the eastern interface of the Wetterau for Ronneberger hill country, but without significant inflows
Horloff - Medium. and underflow on the southeast border; ( moderately productive ) right tributaries there from the Wetterau
Nidda - from the influx of Horloff course in the Wetterau; there inflow of weather and Nidder
Weather - leaves shortly after the source during the Osthessische Bergland and assumes, among other things Water from the Taunus.
Ohm - from the influx of Felda course in various parts of the West Hessian mountain country

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