Bauland
Natural region no. 128 (outlined in brown)
The Bauland is a Gäu landscape in the northeast of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a natural region within the Neckar and Tauber Gäu Plateaus (major unit 12) in the South German Scarplands. The Bauland is no. 128 in the classification system of the Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany.[1]
The name Bauland goes back to the word Ponland which meant a "strip of land in which beans are cultivated" (from the Middle High German pône).[2] The Bauland is colloquially known as Baden Siberia (Badisch Sibirien) due to its climate. It is home to the a form of spelt crop called Grünkern.
Location
The region lies between the Odenwald forest, and the Tauber, Jagst and Neckar rivers and covers large parts of the counties of Main-Tauber-Kreis and Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis. It also reaches into Hohenlohekreis and the county of Heilbronn.
Villages in the Bauland
Sights
- The over 600-metre-long Eberstadt Dripstone Cave (Eberstadter Tropfsteinhöhle) which is the accessible part of the Eberstadt Cave Worlds (Eberstadter Höhlenwelten)
- Doline fields as witnesses of the karst landscape
- Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
- Adelsheim: Historic old town, Bauland Local History Museum
- Osterburken: Roman Museum, Roman castra
References
- ↑ Emil Meynen, Josef Schmithüsen (publishers): Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg, 1953–1962 (9 issues in 8 books, updated map at 1:1,000,000 scale with major units: 1960).
- ↑ Peter Wiesinger (1995), E. Eichler u. a., ed., "Die Bedeutung der Eigennamen: Volksetymologie" (in German), Namenforschung. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Onomastik (Berlin / New York: de Gruyter): pp. 463–471, http://www.scribd.com/doc/74618261/68-Die-Bedeutung-Der-Eigennamen-Volksetymologien. Retrieved 11. Oktober 2012
External links
- Natural region fact file Bauland (128) – LUBW (pdf, 9,9 MB)