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Natural Region In Saxony
The classification of natural regions of Saxony shown here was produced between 1994 and 2001 by a working group called "Ecosystem and Regional Character" (''Naturhaushalt und Gebietscharakter'') at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig as part of the research and development project "Natural Regions and Natural Region Potential of the Free State of Saxony" (''Naturräume und Naturraumpotentiale des Freistaates'') at a scale of 1:50,000 as the basis for the rural development and regional planning. This was also supported by the Saxon State Ministry of the Environment and Agriculture and the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. The basis of the structure was a comprehensive, statewide compilation of the smallest physical geographic landscape units ( physiotopes). These were aggregated into larger units ( nano-geochores and micro-geochores) in an orderly way using the method of "natural region categories". For each of the micro-geochores that resulted from this, a 9-page document wa ...
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Saxonian Academy Of Sciences
The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig () is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name ''Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences'' (). Notable people * Kurt Aland * Annette Beck-Sickinger * Walther Bothe * Alexander Cartellieri * James Chadwick * Bernard Comrie * Peter Debye * Werner Heisenberg * Gustav Hertz * Archibald Vivian Hill * Cuno Hoffmeister * Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt * Jörg Kärger * Hermann Kolbe * August Krogh * Ursula Lehr * Theodor Mommsen * August Ferdinand Möbius * Karl Alexander Müller * Albrecht Neubert * Wilhelm Ostwald * Max Planck * Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker * Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), German biologist, politician * Max Planck (1858–1947), German physicist * Otto Vossler (1902−1987), historian References External links

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Saxon Loess Fields
The Saxon Loess Fields () refer to a natural region that lies mainly within the state of Saxony in central Germany. In addition, small areas of this region extend to the northwest and west into Saxony-Anhalt (the land around Weißenfels), to the southeast into Thuringia (the region around Altenburg) and to the northeast into Brandenburg. It more-or-less combines the BfN's major regions listed as D19 Saxon Upland and Ore Mountain Foreland, (''Sächsisches Hügelland und Erzgebirgsvorland'') and D14, Upper Lusatia (''Oberlausitz''); only the range of Central Uplands hills, the Lusatian Mountains, has been excluded and instead forms part of the Saxon Highlands and Uplands (''Sächsisches Bergland und Mittelgebirge''). Natural regions The following list breaks down the region into major units based on Meynen (three-figure numbers). New major units, that combine the earlier ones, are arranged above these without any preceding numbers (Locations defined in brackets).
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Eastern Upper Lusatia
Eastern Upper Lusatia (; ) is a natural region in Saxony and, in a broader sense, part of the Western Sudetes range including the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The current Saxon division of natural regions view the region as part of the Saxon Loess Fields and divides it into 12 subdivisions at the level of meso-geochores. Location and boundaries Eastern Upper Lusatia runs in a north-south direction between the towns of Görlitz and Zittau. In the north it borders on the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape (''Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichgebiet''), in the south on the Zittau Mountains, in the west on the Upper Lusatian Gefilde (''Oberlausitzer Gefilde'') and the Upper Lusatian Highlands. Its eastern part is bisected by the Lusatian Neisse and lies in Poland. Geographical features of particular note in the region are the Königshain Hills, the Neiße valley and the old mining landscapes south of Görlitz and in the Zittau Basin. Natural region divisions The Eastern Upper ...
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Upper Lusatian Gefilde
The Upper Lusatian Gefilde ( or sometimes ''Bautzener Gefilde'', Upper Sorbian: ''Hornjołužiska pahórčina'') is a natural region in Saxony near the German tripoint with the Czech Republic and Poland. It is considered part of the Saxon Loess Fields The Saxon Loess Fields () refer to a natural region that lies mainly within the state of Saxony in central Germany. In addition, small areas of this region extend to the northwest and west into Saxony-Anhalt (the land around Weißenfels), to the so ... and the Western Sudetes range. ''Gefilde'' is German for "fields"Worsch, Wolfgang (2004). ''Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders Großwörterbuch, Teil II, Deutsch-Englisch '', Langenscheidt KG, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, New York. . or "country". References Literature * Karl Mannsfeld, Hans Richter (ed.): ''Naturräume in Sachsen.'' Trier, 1995. * Rochus Schrammek: ''Verkehrs- und Baugeschichte der Stadt Bautzen.'' Bautzen, 1984. External links Regional grouping, sub-grouping and ...
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West Lusatian Hill Country And Uplands
The West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (; ), sometimes just the West Lusatian Hills,''Ohorn''
at zip-code.en. Retrieved 12 Oct 2013 is a natural region in Saxony. It is divided into the West Lusatian Foothills (''Westlausitzer Vorberge''; ''Zapadołužiske zawěški'') in the east and the Lusatian Plateau (''Lausitzer Platte''; ''Łužiske Wysokornina'') in the west and forms the westernmost extremity of the range.


Location and boundaries

The West Lusatian Foothills form the northwestern declivity of the
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Eastern Ore Mountain Foreland
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Dresden Basin
The Dresden BasinDickinson (1964). pp. 624-625. ( or ''Dresdner Elbtalweitung'') is a roughly 45 km long and 10 km wide area of the Elbe Valley between the towns of Pirna and Meißen.Elkins (1972), pp. 293-4. The city of Dresden lies in the Dresden Basin. Geography The Dresden Basin is formed by the foothills and flanks of the Eastern Ore Mountains and western Lusatian Highlands and the northwestern slopes of Saxon Switzerland. Geologically it is a rift valley and its most important river, the Elbe flows through it in wide meanders. The region is climate, climatically milder than the surrounding area, so that on the northern slopes of the hills vineyards may be cultivated (Saxon Wine Route). In addition, there is intensive fruit farming. The valley climate is significantly drier (average annual precipitation below 700 mm) and warmer (average air temperature 8.5 °C, in Dresden city centre 9.9 °C) than the surrounding hills. The region was settled e ...
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Mulde Loess Hill Country
The Mulde () is a river in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Elbe and is long. The river is formed by the confluence, near Colditz, of the Zwickauer Mulde (running through Zwickau) and the Freiberger Mulde (with Freiberg on its banks), both rising from the Ore Mountains. From here the river runs northwards through Saxony (Grimma, Wurzen, Eilenburg, Bad Düben) and Saxony-Anhalt (Jeßnitz and Dessau, the old capital of Anhalt). The Mulde flows into the Elbe north of Dessau.1911 Encyclopædia Britannica In August 2002 a flood caused severe damage, that even endangered the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich" and the city Dessau. In June 2013, another flood caused significant damage in the region. Etymology Its name could be derived from Old German (possibly Gothic) "Mulda" (𐌼ᚢ𐌻ᛞᚨ), meaning "dust" and a cognate of English "mould"). But more possibly it is related to the German "mahlen" which means "to mill". There ...
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Central Saxon Loess Hill Country
The Central Saxon Loess Hill CountryPetermanns ''Geographische Mitteilungen'', Volume 130, Perthes, J., 1986. p. 143. (), also called the Central Saxon Loess Hills is a natural region in central Saxony. It is bounded in the south to an extent by the Tharandt Forest. In the west the Freiberger and Zwickauer Mulde merge into the Mulde. The region is characterized by loess deposits from the ice age. On the plains there are virtually no woods. These are to be found exclusively on the valley slopes of the rivers (the Mulde and its headstreams, the Freiberger and Zwickauer Mulde). The Central Saxon Loess Hill Country is of great importance for agriculture, e.g. for growing vegetables and fruit. References See also * Central Saxon Hills * Natural regions of Saxony The classification of natural regions of Saxony shown here was produced between 1994 and 2001 by a working group called "Ecosystem and Regional Character" (''Naturhaushalt und Gebietscharakter'') at the Saxonian Academ ...
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Ore Mountain Basin
The Ore Mountain BasinEU Regional Profile Report for Central Europe Project 1CE084P4 "ReSOURCE"
at www.central2013.eu, p. 37. Accessed on 27 Feb 2011.
or Erzgebirge BasinDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 624. . () is a in the German federal state of , that is part of the Saxon Lowland. To the nort ...
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East Thuringian Loess Hill Country
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both da ...
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