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The Waldeck Plateau (German: Waldecker Tafel or Waldecker Tafelland) is a natural 'upper main unit' in the German state of Hesse between the rivers Eder and Diemel, the East Sauerland Hills in the west and the East Waldeck Basin in the east.
The unit and term Waldecker Tafel ("Waldeck Table") was coined in the 1950s because the decimal system of natural main units and their groups in the West Hesse Highlands (main unit group 34) had not proved sufficient, because this group had more than 11 clearly separate main units. Under the serial number 340 were included the open high plateaus made of Zechstein and Bunter sandstone of the Waldeck Plain (3401) and the adjacent thickly wooded Bunter sandstone ridge of the Waldeck Forest (3402). Both landscape units are considered as independent main units.
Natural regions
The Waldeck Plateau is divided into natural regions as follows:
340 Waldeck Plateau (Waldecker Tafel)
3401 Waldeck Plain (Waldecker Gefilde)
3401.0 The Red Country (Das Rote Land)
3401.00 Upper Marsberg Plateau (Obermarsberger Hochfläche)
3401.01 Rotenlandsgrund
3401.1 Korbacher Land
3401.10 Berndorfer Grund
3401.11 Korbach Plain (Korbacher Ebene)
3401.12 Goddelsheimer Feld
3401.13 Sachsenhausen Hills (Sachsenhäuser Hügelland)
3402 Waldeck Forest (Waldecker Wald)
3402.0 Orpewald
3402.1 Twiste Hills (Twister Hügelland)
3402.2 Arolsen Plateau (Arolser Platte)
3402.3 Langer Wald
3402.4 Alter Wald
The Hessian Environmental Atlas (Umweltatlas Hessen) of the State Environment Ministry simplifies the numbering, by substituting a 0 in the first decimal place for the Waldeck Plain instead of the subscript 1, and a 2 in the decimal placed for the Waldeck Forest instead of the subscript 2. Thus the Lange Wald is number 340.13 and the Sachsenhäuser Hügelland is number 340.013. A disadvantage of this format is that it is not clear that it is referring to two different main units.
References
External links
Umweltatlas Hessen (→Natur und Landschaft→Die Naturräume Hessens bzw. Naturräumliche Gliederung) - Naturraum-Haupteinheitengruppe 34 im Umweltatlas Hessen
Waldecker Wald und Waldecker Gefilde as a BfN landscape fact file
map and aerial photo der Waldecker Tafel mit Grenzen und allen wichtigen Erhebungen / Placemarks (Google Earth erforderlich)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Waldeck Plateau
- West Hesse Highlands
- Waldecker
- Paderborn Plateau
- List of mountains and hills of Hesse
- Battle of Fontenoy
- List of explorers
- Monarchy of Luxembourg
- Strobl
- Paul von Hindenburg
