- Source: Saxon Loess Fields
The Saxon Loess Fields (German: Sächsisches Lössgefilde) refer to a natural region that lies mainly within the state of Saxony in central Germany. In addition, small areas of this region extend to the northwest and west into Saxony-Anhalt (the land around Weißenfels), to the southeast into Thuringia (the region around Altenburg) and to the northeast into Brandenburg. It more-or-less combines the BfN's major regions listed as D19 Saxon Upland and Ore Mountain Foreland, (Sächsisches Hügelland und Erzgebirgsvorland) and D14, Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz); only the range of Central Uplands hills, the Lusatian Mountains, has been excluded and instead forms part of the Saxon Highlands and Uplands (Sächsisches Bergland und Mittelgebirge).
Natural regions
The following list breaks down the region into major units based on Meynen (three-figure numbers). New major units, that combine the earlier ones, are arranged above these without any preceding numbers (Locations defined in brackets).
Saxon Loess Fields
(major groupings no longer used)
44 (=D14) Upper Lusatia (except 441 - Lusatian Highlands)
Eastern Upper Lusatia
440 Neiße trough (east and south)
442 East Lusatian Foothills (west)
444 Upper Lusatian Fields
West Lusatian Upland and Highlands
443 West Lusatian Foothills (southeast to northeast)
D 19 Saxon Upland and Ore Mountain Foreland
46 Saxon Upland or Saxon Uplands (including Leipziger Land)
(continuation of the West Lusatian Upland and Highlands)
461 Lusatian Plateau (west)
460 Dresden Basin
462 Großenhain Pflege
463 Central Saxon Loess Upland
North Saxon Plateau and Upland
464 Oschatz Upland (east)
465 Grimma Porphyric Upland (west)
466 Altenburg-Zeitz Loess Upland
467 Leipziger Land
45 Ore Mountain Foreland
450 Mulde Loess Hills
451 Ore Mountain Basin
452 Upper Pleißeland (west of the basin; nowadays usually counted as part of it)
See also
Natural regions of Germany
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Saxon Loess Fields
- Central Saxon Loess Hill Country
- Saxon-Lower Lusatian Heathland
- Eastern Upper Lusatia
- Saxon Switzerland
- Upper Lusatian Gefilde
- Natural regions of Saxony
- Lower Saxony
- Ore Mountain Basin
- Hobbit
