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Oststeirisches Hügelland
The East Styrian Hill Country or East Styrian Hills ( or ''Oststeirisches Riedelland''), is a rolling, hill country region, known as ''Hügelland'', in the southeast of the Austrian state of Styria. Geography The East Styrian Hill Country is part of the ''Alpine Foreland in the East and Southeast'' and extend over large parts of East Styria and Southeast Styria. They are characterised by elongated hill ridges or interfluves (''Riedel''). They are bounded in the west and south by the River Mur and in the north by the Prealps East of the Mur, especially the eastern Graz Uplands, the prominent Kulm (East Styria), Kulm massif and the Joglland with its peak, the Masenberg. To the east it is bounded by the Lafnitz (river), Lafnitz river. The East Styrian Hills cover an area of about 50 x 80 km, but continue as a landscape type geologically and geomorphologically, morphologically: * in the west as the smaller West Styrian Hills (''Weststeirisches Hügelland''), its bounda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hügelland
''Hügelland'' () is a type of landscape consisting of low rolling hills (geology), rolling hills whose topography or surface structure lies between that of a lowland region (plains or river terraces) and that of a more rugged hill range or low mountain range. The term is German and has no exact equivalent in English, but is often translated as "hill country", "hilly terrain", "upland(s)" or "gently undulating" or "rolling country", or "rolling countryside". It is derived from ''Hügel'', a low hill or hillock and appears frequently as a proper name for this type of terrain. The term ''Hügelland'' is not unambiguously defined, even in German. For example, on the plains of North Germany, Poland or Hungary it may be applied to terrain with a height variation of just 50 metres, whilst in the Alpine Foreland or in the Pre-Alps, Voralpen it might refer to terrain with a height difference of at least 100–200 metres. On the other hand, some scholars prefer to define ''Hügelland'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
