The Hesse Highlands (German: Hessisches Bergland), Hessian Highlands or Hessian Highlands and Lowlands (Hessisches Berg- und Senkenland), are a largely densely forested low mountain area in the German state of Hesse that lies between the Rhenish Massif and the western edge of the Thuringian Basin. The Hesse Highlands are both part of the German Central Uplands and the Rhine-Weser Watershed.
The Hessian Highlands correspond to the geological structural unit known as the Hessian Depression (Hessischen Senke) in its broader sense,[1] because 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.[2]
The Hessian Highlands are divided from a natural regional perspective into the West Hesse Highlands (Westhessisches Bergland) or West Hessian Lowlands and Highlands (Westhessische Berg- und Senkenland, major unit group 34) and the volcanically influenced East Hesse Highlands (Osthessische Bergland, major unit group 35), that are separated by the West Hesse Depression (which itself belongs to the former). Whilst the West Hesse Highlands Lowlands lie entirely on Hessian soil, the East Hesse Highlands have foothills extending into the states of Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia.
^Divided by Dickinson (1964) into the West and East Hesse Depressions and the Vogelsberg-Meissner and Spessart-Rhön Axes.
^Dierck Henningsen (1986), Einführung in die Geologie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (in German) (3. ed.), Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag, pp. 49–54, ISBN 3-432-88513-X
The HesseHighlands (German: Hessisches Bergland), Hessian Highlands or Hessian Highlands and Lowlands (Hessisches Berg- und Senkenland), are a largely...
The East HesseHighlands (German: Osthessisches Bergland) describes a heavily wooded range of hills lying mainly in the German state of Hesse, but also...
The West HesseHighlands (German: Westhessisches Bergland), also known as the West Hessian Lowlands and Highlands (Westhessisches Berg- und Senkenland)...
in the south, the Hainich mountains in the north-east and the East HesseHighlands in the north-west. Since January 2021, it is part of the Wartburgkreis...
to the northwest, the Vogelsberg transitions into parts of the West HesseHighlands, whilst retaining the name, Vogelsberg, and the basalt rocks that bear...
West Hesse Depression (German: Westhessische Senke) is part of the West HesseHighlands and Lowlands region in the north of the German state of Hesse. Like...
Hochsauerland, 843.2 m) Kellerwald (675 m, eastern outliers in the West HesseHighlands; 344) Westerwald (657 m: 32) Siebengebirge (460 m, zum Middle Rhine...
For the town in Germany, see Habichtswald, Hesse. The Habichtswald is a small mountain range, covering some 35 km2 and rising to a height of 615 m, immediately...
range of steep, wooded hills straddling the border between the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony in central Germany. It takes its name from the town Kaufungen...
Oberhessische Schwelle) or Upper Hesse Ridge is a hill chain in the West HesseHighlands in North and Middle Hesse, which lies on the Rhine-Weser watershed...
sides by triassic rocks: the Thuringian Basin in the northeast, the HesseHighlands in the west, and the northeastern parts of the South German Scarplands...
successful even to date. The West HesseHighlands adjoin the slate mountains to the east, as far as the West Hesse Depression. During the Palaeozoic (Mesozoic...
natural region in Germany that forms part of the East HesseHighlands in the German states of Hesse and Thuringia. The Salzungen Werra Upland lies on either...
is in turn part of the High Rhön, a mountain region within the East HesseHighlands. The natural region is drained by the Sinn in the west, the Brend in...
140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows: (part of no. 35 East HesseHighlands) (part of no. 354 High Rhön) (part of no. 354.0 Southern High Rhön)...
northern Hesse, Germany. In 1987, the town hosted the 27th Hessentag state festival. Melsungen lies on the river Fulda in the North HesseHighlands. The streams...
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