Gladenbach Uplands

Gladenbach Uplands

View from the Dreisberg to the south of the village of Gladenbach
Highest point
Peak Angelburg
Elevation 609.4 m (1,999 ft)
Dimensions
Length 80 km (50 mi)
Area 780 km2 (300 sq mi)
Geography
State Middle Hesse (small elements also part of Wittgenstein Land, NRW)
Range coordinates 50°47′N 8°26′E / 50.79°N 8.43°E / 50.79; 8.43Coordinates: 50°47′N 8°26′E / 50.79°N 8.43°E / 50.79; 8.43
Parent range Westerwald, Rhenish Massif
Geology
Orogeny hills of the German Central Uplands
View of Bottenhorn in a small hollow (485 m) on the Bottenhorn Plateau. In the background is the Angelburg.

The Gladenbach Uplands (German: Gladenbacher Bergland), named after their central town of Gladenbach, is a range of hills up to 609 m high in the Rhine Massif in Germany, on the junction of the Rothaar Mountains (north and northwest), Westerwald (southwest), (Eastern) Hintertaunus (in the south) and West Hesse Highlands in the east. It lies in Central Hesse within the districts of Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill and Gießen within the so-called Lahn-Dill-(Dietzhölze-) loop. Small parts of the Upper Lahn Valley in the northwest belong, together with the town of Bad Laasphe, also to the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Gladenbach Uplands are geographical unit 320 which is part of the natural region 32, the Westerwald, in the Germany's system of natural regions.


Rivers and streams

The natural regions mentioned above are generally divided between the catchment areas of the der Lahn and Dill tributaries and the landscapes separated by these rivers.

The most important watercourses, in addition to the boundary rivers of the Lahn, Dill and Dietzhölze – are the Aar, the Salzböde, the Perf sowie, and Allna.

The following rivers and streams are sorted in clockwise order i.e. down the Lahn and up the Dill, beginning with the upper reaches of the Lahn in the north and cover a catchment area of over 20 km²:[1]
(the natural regions are linked in the column of their most important river!)

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Name
 Parent
river
 Length
[km]
 Catchment-
area
[km²]
 Drains
into
[l/s]
 Mouth
elevation
[m above NN]
 Natural regions
(heading downstream)
 Roads
DGKZ
Diete Perf (l) 8,8 24,64 310 Breidenbach Bottom B 253 25814-6
Gansbach Perf (l) 11,1 23,17 349 Bottenhorn Plateaux,
Breidenbach Bottom		 L 3042 25814-2
Perf Lahn (r) 20,0 113,13 1776 285 Bottenhorn Plateaux,
Breidenbach Bottom		 L 3049,
B 253		 258-14
Dautphe Lahn (r) 8,8 41,81 533 245 Bottenhorn Plateaux,
Upper Lahn Valley		 B 453 258-16
Elnhauser Wasser Ohe (l) 5,9 24,25 171 195 Elnhausen-Michelbach Basin 258326-6
Ohe Allna (l) 11,5 44,28 337 195 Damshäuser Kuppen,
Elnhausen-Michelbach Basin		 L 3387 25832-6
Allna Lahn (r) 19,1 92,02 665 172 Damshäuser Kuppen,
Elnhausen-Michelbach Basin		 L 3387 258-32
Wenkbach Lahn (r) 7,2 20,77 107 168 Salzböde Valley,
Marburger Lahn Valley Basin		 258-332
Salzböde Lahn (r) 27,6 137,85 1322 164 Zollbuche,
Salzböde Valley,
Krofdorf-Königsberg Forest,
Marburger Lahn Valley Basin		 L 3050,
B 255,
L 3048		 258-34
Vers Salzböde (r) 8,4 42,55 188 Salzböde Valley L 3061 25834-8
Bieber Lahn (r) 13,5 34,68 217 155 Krofdorf-Königsberg Forest,
Gießen Lahn Valley Basin		 L 3474,
L 3286		 258-394
Lemp Dill (l) 11,7 34,97 274 170 Krofdorf-Königsberg Forest,
Krofdorf-Königsberger/Hörre		 L 3052 2584-92
Aar Dill (l) 20,6 148,76 1602 210 Niederweidbach Basin,
Hörre/Schelde Forest,
Lower Dill Valley		 B 255 2584-6
Siegbach Aar (r) 12,2 28,67 260 Bottenhorn Plateaux,
Zollbuche		 - / L 3050,
- / L 3049		 25846-6
Schelde Dill (l) 12,0 35,03 426 221 Schelde Forest L 3042 2584-56
Dietzhölze Dill (l) 23,7 88,44 1431 233 Rothaar Mountains, Upper Dill Valley B 253 2584-4

The outer boundary of the Gladenbach Uplands is formed by the Lahn and Dill accompanied in the north (upper reaches of the Lahn) by the B 62, in the east by the B 3 Marburg-Gießen (mostly autobahn-like, clearly external in the Marburg area), in the east, south of the B 49 Gießen-Wetzlar (mostly autobahn-like) and in the southwest (lower reaches of the Dill) by the A 45. The Bundesstraße 253 Dillenburg-Biedenkopf (see above) roughly closes the remaining gap.

Waterbodies

The most important reservoir in the Gladenbach Uplands is the Aartalsee (57 ha, 270 m above NN) in the Niederweidbach Basin, followed by the Perf Reservoir (18 ha, 301 m) in the Breidenbach Bottom (Breidenbach Bottom).

Hills

The hills of the Gladenbach Uplands, arranged by ridge or natural region, include the following:
(Location of the natural regions with the Gladenbach Uplands and location of the hills within the natural region)

The Daubhaus (552 m, centre left) and the Allberg (528 m) at the far eastn edge of the Bottenhorn Plateaux. In the foreground is the Gladenbach village of Runzhausen
View looking past Gießen and the castles of Vetzberg (left) and Gleiberg (right) to the 498 m high Dünsberg
View from the B 255 of Gladenbach. Centre rear: the 357 m high Lammerich; left: northern foot of the 361 m high Kirchberg.
The lower Gansbach Valley near Frechenhausen. Background: the Schwarzenberg (Breidenbach Grund) and the Sackpfeife.
The 533 m high Schwarzenberg spurs of Nimerich and Friedensdorf. Rear right: the Biedenkopf and the 631 m high Sackpfeife spur of Hainpracht
View from the Hasenkopf looking west to the Tannenberg (left), the Großer Feldberg and the hills of the Gladenbach Uplands including the Dünsberg, Hemmerich, Angelburg, Daubhaus and Rimberg

References

  1. ↑ River data from WRRL Hessen

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