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The Salzungen Werra Upland (German: Salzunger Werrabergland) is a natural region in Germany that forms part of the East Hesse Highlands in the German states of Hesse and Thuringia.

View of the Pleß (rear) and Stoffelskuppe (left)
View of the Pleß (rear) and Stoffelskuppe (left)

Location


The Salzungen Werra Upland lies on either side of the Werra near Bad Salzungen. It has a plateau-like character, lies at a height of between 350 and 645.4 m above sea level (NN) and extends from the northwestern Thuringian Forest (to the east), to the Kuppen Rhön (to the west) and the forest of Seulingswald (to the northwest). It accompanies the River Werra on both sides from Walldorf to Vacha, continuing on its right bank only as far as Gerstungen.


Geology


The upland's main rock is bunter sandstone, from which emerge several, less volcanic kuppen like the Pleß and Stoffelskuppe, whose phenotype presages the Kuppen Rhön that lies to the west. Salt tectonics have resulted in hollows and sinkholes.


Natural regions


The Salzungen Werra Upland is a major natural region unit (no. 359) within the major unit group of the East Hesse Highlands (number 35 or D47). The valleys of the Werra and Suhl, which mainly run in a northwesterly direction, divide the upland into 3 orographic mountain regions, of which only the central Frauensee Hills (Frauenseer Hügelland) are independent.[1]

359 Salzungen Werra Upland (Salzunger Werrabergland)


Mountains and hills


Among the mountains and hills of the Salzungen Werra Upland are the following − with heights in metres above sea level (NN):

  • Pleß (645.4 m)
  • Stoffelskuppe (620 m)
  • Krücke (604 m)
  • Gotteskopf (576 m)
  • Schneckenberg (528 m)
  • Bornkopf (479 m)
  • Großer Krötenkopf (457 m)
  • Aschenberg (452 m)
  • Röhrberg (452 m)

Rivers and streams


Among the rivers and streams (all in the Werra catchment) of the Salzungen Werra Upland are the following (downstream from south to north, with lengths in kilometres and mouth locations):

Left tributaries of the Werra:

Right tributaries of the Werra:

  • Helba (??? km, 25.3 km²), in Meiningen
  • Wallbach (11 km, 24.7 km²), near Wallbach
  • Schmalkalde (24.9 km, 156.4 km²), near Niederschmalkalden
  • Fambach (??? km, > 10 km²), near Fambach
  • Truse (15 km, 46.2 km²), near Breitungen
  • Farnbach (??? km, > 10 km²), near Breitungen
  • Grumbach (12 km, > 10 km²), near Breitungen
  • Schweina (11 km, > 10 km²), near Barchfeld
  • Fischgraben (??? km, 32.1 km²), near Barchfeld
  • Rohrgraben (7 km, > 10 km²), near Unterrohn
  • Schergesbach (??? km, > 10 km²), near Kieselbach
  • Bach aus Oberzella (??? km, > 10.9 km²), near Unterzella
  • Schwarzer Graben (??? km, 10.3 km²), near Heringen-Widdershausen
  • right Suhl (22,3 km, 91,3 km²), near Untersuhl
  • Elte (22,5 km, 81,0 km²), near Lauchröden

References


  1. Map and legend of the natural regions in the East Hesse Highlands (35) with the Hessian parts of the Salzungen-Werra Upland (359) in the Umweltatlas Hessen by the Hessian State Office for the Environment and Geology - beware: the web links are not backtrackable!
  2. Official name unknown – source required: W. Röll: Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 126 Fulda – Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1969
  3. Das Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands (4. und 5. Lieferung – Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, E. Meynen und J. Schmithüsen, Remagen, 1957) speaks in his, earlier, coarser division of the Suhl Valley (Suhltal) and Basin of Mohra (Becken von Möhra).



На других языках


[de] Salzunger Werrabergland

Das Salzunger Werrabergland ist ein in Deutschland befindlicher Naturraum des Osthessischen Berglands in Hessen und Thüringen.
- [en] Salzungen Werra Upland



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