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Black Mountains (Rhön)
The Black Mountains (german: Schwarze Berge) are part of the High Rhön in Germany, in particular of the Southern High Rhön, which lies south of the Kreuzberg Group and is thus the southernmost part of the High Rhön. Since 1993, most of the region has been protected by the Black Mountain Nature Reserve (''Naturschutzgebiet Schwarze Berge''), the second largest in Bavaria outside of the Alps, in order to counteract its afforestation by coniferous forest.Information about nature conservation retrieved 12 October 2013 Natural region grouping The name ''Schwarze Berge'' was defined as a natural region in 1968 as part of the Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany, natural regional classification of Germany in the 1960s at a scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landkreis Bad Kissingen
Bad Kissingen is a Districts of Germany, ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the district Main-Kinzig and Fulda (district), Fulda in Hesse, and the districts of Rhön-Grabfeld, Schweinfurt (district), Schweinfurt and Main-Spessart. History The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Bad Kissingen, Bad Brückenau and Hammelburg. Geography The district is located in the southern portion of the Rhön, Rhön Mountains. The Fränkische Saale river (an affluent of the Main (river), Main) enters the district in the north and leaves to the southwest. Coat of arms The coat of arms displays: * top: three icons symbolising the three spas of the district * left: the eagle as well as the red and white pattern are from the arms of the county of County of Henneberg, Henneberg, which ruled the territory in the Middle Ages * right: the cross from the arms of Fulda Towns and municipalities Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geroda (Unterfranken)
Geroda is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany. Geroda is located in the nature park Bayerische Rhön, in the Thulba valley, on the southern side of the so-called ''Schwarze Berge'' ("black mountains"). Demographics The municipality is home to the towns Geroda and Platz. The population of Geroda is 798 as of 2021,with a density of 1 person per 48 km. History The name ''Geroda'' comes from the Middle High German ''Ger'', meaning ''speer'', and ''Rod'' (modern German ''Rodung'') and describes a wedge-shaped clearing. The first church in the area was built in the 12th century. The town was divided between the Bishop of Fulda and the Bibra family. Because it lay on a major commercial route, it was repeatedly plundered during the Thirty Years' War. Government The municipal council has 13 members, including the mayor. Of those members, 10 belonged to the ''Freie Wählergemeinschaft'', and 3 were independent as of 2002. Coat of arms At the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Rhön
The Long Rhön (german: Lange Rhön) is a ridge in the Central Rhön which forms part of the High Rhön within the Rhön Mountains. The Long Rhön is an elongated basalt plateau in the centre, roughly 800 metres above sea level, which is only occasional interrupted by mountain peaks. Its highest mountain is the Heidelstein (). A majority of the area is part of the Long Rhön Nature Reserve. In this area of the Rhön is the Black Moor (Rhön), Black Moor. Natural region grouping The Long Rhön was first defined in 1968 as part of the Handbook of Natural Regions in Germany, natural region classification (scale (cartography), M = 1:200,000) as a natural region and grouped as follows: *(to 35 East Hessian Highlands) **(to 354 High Rhön) ***(to 354.1 Central Rhön) ****354.11 Long Rhön Boundaries The boundary of the Long Rhön in the west along the Ulster (river), Ulster valley may be taken from Hilders to its source roughly on the 600-metre-contour. The Bundesstraße 278 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basalt
Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial planet, rocky planet or natural satellite, moon. More than 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Rapid-cooling, fine-grained basalt is chemically equivalent to slow-cooling, coarse-grained gabbro. The eruption of basalt lava is observed by geologists at about 20 volcanoes per year. Basalt is also an important rock type on other planetary bodies in the Solar System. For example, the bulk of the plains of volcanism on Venus, Venus, which cover ~80% of the surface, are basaltic; the lunar mare, lunar maria are plains of flood-basaltic lava flows; and basalt is a common rock on the surface of Mars. Molten basalt lava has a low viscosity due to its relatively low silica content (between 45% and 52%), resulting in rapidly moving lava flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dammersfeld Ridge
The Dammersfeld Ridge (german: Dammersfeldrücken) is a low mountain chain in the High Rhön in Germany, which begins on a line from Bischofsheim to Gersfeld and runs in a southwesterly direction to Riedenberg – Werberg – Maria Ehrenberg. The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the Wildflecken Training Area. Its highest point is the Dammersfeldkuppe, the second-highest mountain in the Rhön. The Bavarian-Hessian state border runs along the crest of the mountain chain. Natural regions The Dammersfeld Ridge was first defined in 1968 as a natural region as part of the natural regional classification of Germany at a map scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows:Brigitte Schwenzer: ''Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 140 Schweinfurt'' - Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1968 â†Online-Karte(PDF, 4 MB) *''(part of no. 35 East Hesse Highlands)'' **''(part of no. 354 Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinn (river)
The Sinn is a river that flows through the state of Hesse and the Bavarian province of Lower Franconia in southern Germany. It is about long and is a right, northerly tributary of the Franconian Saale. Course The Sinn emerges in the Franconian Rhön at the foot of the Kreuzberg near the local subdistrict (''Gemarkung'') of ''Neuwildflecken''. At Zeitlofs on the Hessian-Lower Franconian border it flows into the Schmale Sinn which joins it from the Dammersfeldkuppe to the northeast. Accompanied in places by the Würzburg−Fulda railway and crossed by the A 7 motorway bridge below Riedenberg, the Sinn initially flows in a southwesterly and then in a southerly direction to Gemünden, where it joins the Franconian Saale just under 700 m before the latter river discharges into the River Main. Tributaries The tributaries of the Sinn include (in downstream order): Oberbach, Schmale Sinn, Gronau, Jossa and Aura. Towns and villages The towns and villages along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Uplands
The Central UplandsDickinson (1964), p.18 ff. (german: die MittelgebirgeN.B. In German die ''Mittelgebirge'' (plural) refers to the Central Uplands; das ''Mittelgebirge'' refers to a low mountain range or upland region (''Mittel'' = "medium" and ''-gebirge'' = "range").) is one of the three major natural regions of Germany. It stretches east to west across the country. To the north lies the North German Plain or Northern Lowland; to the south, the Alps and the Alpine Foreland. Formation The German Central Uplands, like the Scandinavian and British mountain ranges and the Urals, belong to the oldest mountains of Europe, even if their present-day appearance has only developed relatively recently. In the Carboniferous, i.e. about 350 million years ago, Variscan mountain ranges were formed in central Europe by the uplifting caused by tectonic plate collision. Immediately after their formation the erosion of the mountains began under the influence of exogenous processes during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
