Karsdorf Fault

The Karsdorfer disorder ( also Karsdorfer faults) is considered part of the middle Saxon disorder is a distinctive tectonic fault line in the area of ​​the eastern Ore Mountains and the Elbe Valley Slate Mountains. It forms the northern boundary of the geological Osterzgebirges in the district of Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains to the same zone. There it connects to the pool and the Doehlen Kreischaer pool.

It gets its name from the place in Karsdorf Rabenau (Sachsen ), which was formerly known as Wendish Cars village. Therefore, the fracture line is mentioned in the historical literature also Wendish Carsdorfer fault line.

Near Karsdorf extending in the southeast direction fracture line through the following full forms is mapped clearly visible geomorphologically:

• Wind Mountain at Freital, 352 m above sea level. NN.
• Lerchenberg at Poss village, 425 m
• Quohrener Kipse, 452 m
• Hermsdorfer mountain, 447 m
• Wilisch, 476 m
• Finckenfang Maxen, 394 m
• Lerchenhügel at home village, 413 m
• Lederberg at Schlottwitz, 446 m

South of the fault line concludes with the Dippoldiswalder Heath and the Heath Hirschbacher to a nearly flat woodland with sandstone relics, which is drained by the Oelsabach and from deer creek or the Lockwitzbach. This overgrown with forest areas are portions of the Cretaceous Elbsandsteins and have for the natural water balance of regional importance. The oldest sections of these relics belong to the earliest Cretaceous deposits ( Niederschöna Formation) in the Dresden area. By Karsdorfer fault they are separated from the main area of ​​the Elbe valley chalk.