Saxon Highlands and Uplands

As a Saxon hill country and low mountain ranges, a natural region in Saxony is called. The classification of natural areas in Saxony groups the physiographic units of the top choral dimension level ( Makrogeochoren ) to three Saxony's regions in order to clarify their position in the African regional scale.

The Saxon hill country and low mountain is part of the Central European Low Mountain Range to the west in the Thuringian- Franconian Middle Mountains, east continues into the Sudetenland. The natural region occupies about a third of the area of ​​the Free State of Saxony. Their classification was congruent drawn in the southwest, southeast and east by the Saxon or German border, as the underlying natural area acquisition was limited to the territory of Saxony, but the physio- geographical characteristic of the Makrogeochoren respectively extends well above this arbitrary mapping boundary. Only in the north of the boundary of the closed distribution of loess forms a defined natural area boundary that separates the Saxon hill country and low mountain ranges of the natural region Saxon Lössgefilde.

Features

The mosaic combined in the Saxon mountains and highlands natural areas is more heterogeneous than that of the other natural regions of Saxony. Unifying features are the fundamental Saxonische by the Bruchschollentektonik and subsequent ablation and sedimentation embossed geomorphological structure and the resulting mainly from quaternary weathering ceilings floors.

Nature regions

The natural region Saxon hill country and low mountain ranges are currently following Makrogeochoren assigned ( for fine structure in meso-and Mikrogeochoren see list of physiographic units in Saxony ):

  • Vogtland
  • Elstergebirge
  • Westerzgebirge
  • Middle Ore Mountains
  • Eastern Ore Mountains
  • Saxon Switzerland
  • Upper Lusatian Mountains
  • Zittau Mountains

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation used until the recent past nor the outline design of the manual nature of the spatial structure of Germany from the 1950s (main unit groups and main units in brackets the approximate location within the newer classification ):

  • 41 VOGTLAND 410 Ostthüringisch - Vogtländische plateaus
  • 411 Mittelvogtländisches knoll country
  • 412 Upper Vogtland Elstergebirge
  • 420 southern slopes of the Erzgebirge ( Ore Mountains extreme southwest of the West )
  • 421 Upper West Erzgebirge ( Ore Mountains West down to the extreme south-west and extreme north- east, south of the Middle Ore Mountains )
  • 422 Upper Eastern Ore Mountains ( south of the eastern Ore Mountains )
  • 423 Lower West Erzgebirge ( Ore Mountains extreme northeast of the West, north and center of the central Erzgebirge )
  • 424 Lower Eastern Ore Mountains ( north and center of the eastern Ore Mountains )
  • 430 Saxon Switzerland
  • 431 Zittau Mountains
  • 441 Upper Lusatian Mountains
Elster Mountains Western Ore Mountains
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