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26-460: 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

52-625: A castle's battlements and the cross, and green for the treetops. The battlements refer to the Kesterburg (now called the Christenberg), a castle in the Burgwald range. The cross refers to local history, namely Wiesenfeld's. In 1238, this village was founded as a prospective Order of St. John centre. Through the community runs Federal Highway ( Bundesstraße ) B 252 connecting Marburg and Korbach . Birkenbringhausen, Wiesenfeld and Ernsthausen are stops on

78-409: Is divided into Birkenbringhausen in the northwest, Bottendorf somewhat more towards the northeast, Burgwald and Wiesenfeld towards the centre, and Ernsthausen to the south. Burgwald is quite a new name for the main community. Until 1996, it was known as Industriehof . As part of Hesse's municipal reforms on 1 July 1971, the communities of Birkenbringhausen, Ernsthausen and Wiesenfeld merged to form

104-561: Is the Edersee . Other lakes and reservoirs are listed below: Dickinson, Robert E. (1964). Germany: A regional and economic geography (2nd ed.). London: Methuen. Burgwald Burgwald is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse , Germany . Burgwald lies east of Battenberg and roughly 30 km north of the university town of Marburg . The community lies on

130-629: Is the Marburg - Gießen Lahn Valley to the west (up to 380 m high near the Lahnberge) and the Amöneburg Basin to the east, which is flat apart from the singularity of the 365 m high Amöneburg itself. The basin rises southwards into the 405 m high (Lumda Plateau) Vogelsberg foothills. In the far east, the West Hesse Depression runs alongside almost all the ridges mentioned, following the valleys of

156-696: The Vogelsberg , which the Ohm leaves after about 45% of its total length and 27% of its catchment area with roughly 35% of its volume (see also here ). The Schwalm, on the other hand, leaves the Vogelsberg much earlier and receives about half its water volume at its mouth from right-hand tributaries from the East Hesse Highlands . Because the river systems of both rivers drain several major areas, they may be considered more or less as major rivers. Rivers which enter

182-636: The Burgwaldbahn railway line from Frankenberg to Marburg. The stations in Burgwald are in the tariff zone of the North Hesse Transport Association ( Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund ; NVV). Several signposted bicycle paths cross the municipal area or lead right to it. West past Birkenbringhausen run the Hessian cycle path R8 and the Ederauenweg ("Eder floodplain way"), which runs alongside

208-577: The Hesse Highlands , combine to form the geological unit known as the Hesse Depression ( Hessischen Senke ), in its wider sense. Here, geologically young layers of Zechstein and Bunter sandstone , and in places even younger rocks like Muschelkalk , of the Jurassic , Paleogene and Neogene periods, have been preserved. The highlands comprise the following geographical subdivisions according to

234-695: The Lückenbach (12.0 km, 38.9 km , 139 km). Opposite, the Twiste rises almost in the East Sauerland Hills , but receives, apart from this source region, all its water from the West Hesse Highlands. Likewise, only a little water flows into the Itter in the northwest from the eastern slopes of those particular hills. The largest and most important stretch of water in the West Hesse Highlands by far

260-804: The Rhine Massif again. The right-hand tributaries of the Wetter , a tributary of the Nidda and thus part of the Main river system, only enter a small part of the Vogelsberg foothills in the extreme southeast. In addition, a few left tributaries of the Fulda from the Habichtswald highlands join the Fulda itself just below the Eder confluence. The following table lists the most important rivers in

286-673: The Schwalm (south) and Eder (north). The northern part of the Burgwald, the southwestern Kellerwald and the Upper Hessian Ridge form part of the Rhine-Weser watershed and link the Rothaargebirge with the Vogelsberg . The many depressions in the West Hesse Highlands and Lowlands have led to a buildup of loess soils, which is why arable farming is widespread here. The main rivers in

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312-602: The Waldeck Plain (340 1 ) and the adjacent thickly wooded Bunter sandstone ridge of the Waldeck Forest (340 2 ). Both landscape units are considered as independent main units. The Waldeck Plateau is divided into natural regions as follows: The Hessian Environmental Atlas ( Umweltatlas Hessen ) of the State Environment Ministry simplifies the numbering, by substituting a 0 in the first decimal place for

338-872: The West Hessian Lowlands and Highlands ( Westhessisches Berg- und Senkenland ), are a heavily forested region of the Central Uplands in Germany. These highlands lie mainly within the state of Hesse , between that part of the Rhenish Massif right of the Rhine in the west, the Weser Uplands to the north, the Hessian Central Uplands to the east and the Wetterau to the south. The West Hesse Highlands form one of

364-651: The Hesse Environmental Atlas ( Umweltatlas Hessen ): The tectonics of the Upper Rhine Rift , which continues along the eastern edge of the Rhenish Massif as far as the Upper Weser Hills , form highlands and lowlands here that merge into the volcanic East Hesse Highlands beyond the West Hesse Depression on their eastern perimeter. The ridges never attain the height of the loftiest peaks of

390-569: The Schwalm from the left out of the West Hesse Highlands include the following: Significant tributaries from the middle and lower courses of the Ohm are: Other rivers crossing the boundary of this natural region are the Twiste in the northwest, the Kleebach in the southwest and the Wetschaft in the west. The Wetschaft, which is fed from the left by the Burgwald, receives more water at its confluence with

416-663: The Treisbach (r, 16.8 km, 68.2 km ) flowing out of the Rothaargebirge (810 L/s) than it delivers to that point (666.2 L/s), despite the fact that it has already been fed from the right by the East Sauerland Hills The Kleebach on the other hand draws most of its water from the Eastern Hintertaunus , only receiving a small quantity of water from the Vogelsberg foothills via its right-hand stream,

442-671: 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. West Hesse Highlands The West Hesse Highlands ( German : Westhessisches Bergland ), also known as

468-696: The West Hesse Highlands flow from the west out of the Rothaar Mountains : the Diemel (only right-hand tributaries, north), Eder (middle) and Lahn (only left-hand tributaries and river valley, south). Whilst the two rivers of the Weser river system in the extreme northeast (Diemel) and east (Eder) discharge into the West Hesse Depression, the Lahn leaves the Highlands after following a semi-circular course and heads southwest into

494-496: The West Hesse Highlands, from north to south and internally in a downstream direction, i.e. mainly from west to east. For a better overview or to sort them downstream based on the river system, enter the following DGKZ code numbers after the number 44 - Diemel , 428 - Eder , 24 - Fulda , 258 - Lahn and 2484 - Wetter. Natural regions in italics are those outside the West Hesse Highlands; catchment areas and discharge quantities are given in italics where they only represent part of

520-439: The greater community. On 1 January 1974, Bottendorf was amalgamated with Burgwald as well. The council's 27 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 26 March 2006 (each party's share of the vote is also shown, and figures in parentheses are for the 2001 election): Note: The last three are citizens' coalitions. Burgwald's civic coat of arms has some unusual divisions. The crenellated wall and

546-400: The highlands to the east and west. Although the two highland areas of this Central Upland region reach heights of 675 m ( Kellerwald ) and 615 m ( Habichtswald ), the typical height of the ridges is more like 400 m. Between them, there are large river valleys and depressions, in places up to 200 m lower. The Habichtswald highlands, which are up to 615 m high, in the north are separated from

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572-509: The line of fir trees are, as the German blazon describes them, not charges, but rather divisions of the shield, although most observers would see a castle wall and a line of trees (things, rather than dividing lines). According to the blazon, the only charge is the cross of the Order of St. John in the shield's lowest division. The shield's colours are blue, green and silver – blue for the sky, silver for

598-636: The major natural regions of Germany (Natural Region No. 34 or D46) and are part of the Central European Uplands as well as being the watershed between the Rhine and the Weser . They comprise a line of hill ranges in the west, running north-northeast to south-southwest on the shoulder of the Rhenish Massif and include the Kellerwald , and a fault trough in the east, the West Hesse Depression . The West and East Hesse Highlands , together referred to as

624-515: The northwestern edge of the Burgwald range, Hesse's biggest contiguous woodland. Burgwald borders in the north on the town of Frankenberg , in the east on the community of Haina , in the south on the town of Rosenthal (all in Waldeck-Frankenberg), in the southwest on the community of Münchhausen ( Marburg-Biedenkopf ), and in the west on the town of Battenberg and the community of Allendorf (both in Waldeck-Frankenberg). The community

650-635: The peaks of the Waldeck Plateau ( Waldeck Plateau ) to the west, generally between 400 und 500 m high, by the East Waldeck Basin ( East Waldeck Basin ). Immediately south of the plateau is the 675 m high Kellerwald. The latter runs away to the south, splitting into two ridges mainly around 400 m high: the Burgwald , to the southwest, and the Upper Hessian Ridge to the south. South of the Burgwald

676-493: The total value (see footnotes below the table)! (*: Edersee tributaries); **: Catchment area and discharge somewhat larger than given in the table, because the lower courses are combined with the Fulda sections; ***: Discharge value excluding confluence region in NRW ) The two longest and biggest rivers in the table by far, the Schwalm and the Ohm , have a special role. They both emerge in

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