Saxon-Bohemian Chalk Sandstone Region

The Saxon-Bohemian Cretaceous sandstone area is a ( physically small ) natural spatial feature unit group in the extreme southeast of Saxony to the Czech border. It belongs to the northern boundary of the Bohemian Massif and consists of the German units in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains ( Saxon Switzerland ) and the Lusatian Mountains ( Zittau Mountains ). Since the interface of Elbe sandstone and Lusatian Mountains Bohemian in the so-called low- country ( " Swallow Auer Zipfel " ) located in the Czech lands, the two natural areas are spatially separated.

The working group ecosystem and area character of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig has summarized at the beginning of the 21st century, all the Central Mountains in the Saxon- Bohemian border area superunit Saxon mountains and highlands. Heard between Zittau Mountains and Saxon Switzerland to the Lusatian Highlands, which was still grouped by Meynen to the north and east Lösshügellandschaften subsequent to the main unit Upper Lusatia; to the west, the new superunit continues into the main unit groups Erzgebirge and Vogtland.

The Lusatian hill country is not located on Cretaceous sandstone, but thought the area to the north, and together with the " actual" Cretaceous sandstone area to the eastern part of the Saxon low mountain range.

Division into main units

The structure of the Saxon- Bohemian Cretaceous sandstone area after Meynen was as follows (in brackets: Main unit group as BfN):

• 43 ( = D15) Saxon- Bohemian Cretaceous sandstone area ( in the extended sense) 430 Saxon Switzerland
• 431 Zittau Mountains
• (441 Lusatian Highlands )