Magdeburg Börde

The Magdeburg is the central landscape of Saxony- Anhalt and is part of the planning region Elbe- flare - heath to the eponymous state capital Magdeburg. It is characterized by very fertile soils.

Demarcation

The boundaries of the Magdeburg region are largely blurred. Only in the west separates the border to Lower the Magdeburg region of the Hildesheimer Borde. In the northwest of Drömling Nature Park Oebisfelde and Calvörde borders. To the north, the flange goes into the well to Saxony-Anhalt belonging Altmark. The limit is usually specified with the course of the river or the ear Colbitz - Letzlinger Heath. However, the south of the ear located Flechtinger ridge belongs only partly to Magdeburg. The eastern boundary is usually drawn with the same; However, some villages are east of Magdeburg also the curl belonging. In the southeast the flange goes into the river landscape of the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve. The transition in the southeast location Mansfeld region is not sharply defined. To the south, the resin, the resin immediate foreshore is outsourced to some extent from the flange.

By Magdeburg, the rivers flow Bode, Aller and Saale.

General

The poor forest landscape is flat - wavy and mostly consists of unconsolidated glacial drift of the Saale ice age. Sporadically also older hard rock to light. Large-scale superimposed on a loess cover blew up the older consolidated and unconsolidated rocks. It has fertile soils ( partially black earth ) on which mainly sugar beet and wheat is cultivated. 1934, the soil in the former town Eickendorf (now Bördeland ) the land value number 100 thus was the most fertile soil in Germany and was valid until the end of World War II in 1945 as a basis of comparison for Germany floors.

The Magdeburg is located in the rain shadow of the resin and is therefore one of the driest regions in Germany, but not the warmest or sunniest. The highest elevation of Magdeburg is with 145.7 meters at the Great Wartberg Niederndodeleben.

In the Magdeburg still flaring Platt is often spoken.

Transport links

  • Shipping Elbe
  • Mittelland Canal
  • Magdeburg Water Bridge (the largest in the world)
  • Roads Federal Highway 2
  • Federal Highway 14
  • Federal Highway 1
  • Federal Highway 71
  • Federal Highway 79
  • Federal Highway 81
  • Federal Highway 245
  • B246a
  • Airport cochstedt
  • Magdeburg
Ohre Mansfeld Land Bode (river) Soil value Hanover
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