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Saxon Highlands and Uplands

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The Saxon Highlands and Uplands ({{langx|de|Sächsisches Bergland und Mittelgebirge}}) refer to a natural region mainly in the south of Saxony with small elements also in southeast Thuringia and northeast Bavaria. It comprises, from (south)west to (north)east, of the Vogtland, the Ore Mountains, Saxon Switzerland, the Upper Lusatian Plateau and the Zittau Hills.

The amalgamation of several major geographical units by the working group for Ecological balance and Regional Character at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, that includes a break-up of the old natural region of Oberlausitz, has not been fully recognised officially, because this division has not yet been accepted by federal authorities like the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN), but does broadly follow the logic of other groupings such as that of the Thuringian-Franconian Upland which border it to the west and includes the Thuringian Forest, Thuringian Highland, Franconian Forest and Fichtel Mountains.

Whilst the Thuringian-Franconian Upland, like the adjacent Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest run from northwest to southeast, these low Saxon mountains generally run from west-southwest to east-northeast. The Vogtland, whose German section lies mainly in the natural region in the Free State of Saxony that gives it its name, forms the actual link to the Thuringian-Franconian Upland.

The new internal subdivisions of the Ore Mountains have since been adopted by the BfN.

Natural sub-divisions

The following list shows the current division of natural regions. Main geographical units according to Meynen and the BfN are shown with an asterisk (*).

Alternative sub-divisions according to Meynen and BfN

The older division of the Ore Mountains into major units by Meynen is as follows (in brackets their location within the new classification):

See also

Sources

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719081325/http://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/de/wu/umwelt/lfug/lfug-internet/documents/naturreg_raum_A3.pdf Map of the natural regions in Saxony] at www.umwelt.sachsen.de (pdf, 859 kB)
  • BfN
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20121219061530/http://www.bfn.de/0503_karten.html Map services]
  • Landscape fact files
  • Vogtland
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41004 Upper levels of the East Thuringian-Vogtland Plateau and the Middle Vogtland Peak District]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41002 Upper Saale Valley]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41000 Northern East Thuringian-Vogtland Plateau] (excluding lake district)
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41003 Plothen Lake District]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110916143515/http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41001 Ronneburg Arable and Mining Region] (Northeastern East Thuringian-Vogtland Plateaus)
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41100 Lower levels of the Middle Vogtland Peak District]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110916135305/http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41200 Intermediate levels of the Upper Vogtland]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=41201 Lower levels of the Upper Vogtland]
  • Ore Mountains
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42000 Southern foothills of the Ore Mountains]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718202459/http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42100 Upper levels of the northern foothills of the Western and Middle Ore Mountains]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42101 Lower levels of the Western Ore Mountains]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42300 Lower levels of the Middle Ore Mountains]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42200 Upper levels of the Eastern Ore Mountains]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42400 Lower levels of the Eastern Ore Mountains]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=42401 Tharandt Forest] (northern part of the Eastern Ore Mountains)
  • Kreidesandsteingebiet und Oberlausitz
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=43000 Saxon Switzerland] (excluding the Elbe Valley)
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=43001 Upper Elbe Valley]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=44100 Upper Lusatian Plateau]
  • [http://www.bfn.de/0311_landschaft.html?landschaftid=43100 Zittau Hills]

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Category:Natural regions of Saxony

Category:Highlands

Category:Natural regions of the Central Uplands