The Gäu is a southern German layered landscape in Baden-Wuerttemberg, it lies between the Black Forest and the Neckar.
Regions
The Gäu is bounded in the north by the Enz and in the west by the Nagold and the Northern Black Forest, in the south it borders on the Baar. In the east, the Gäu is limited by that Neckar basin, by Schönbuch and Glemswald, further south it extends partly over the lower reaches of the Neckars up to Southwestern Alb foreland.
The Gäu is not a uniform landscape, one also differentiates according to the altitude Lower Gäu of the Upper yawn
Strohgäu
The Strohgäu or Lower Gäu lies in the northeastern part and is relatively densely populated.
- Asperg
- Weilimdorf
- Gerlingen
- Schwieberdingen
- Korntal
- Leonberg
- Renningen
- Markgröningen
- Münchingen
Heckengäu
The Heckengäu belongs to the Upper yawn and is the western part of it. His other name Schlehengäu comes from the hedges that grow along the dirt roads. It describes a long strip along the Black Forest that extends roughly from Nagold to Vaihingen an der Enz.
- Calw
- Gechingen
- Garden rings
- Bad Liebenzell
- Magstadt
- Mühlacker
- Nagold
- Vaihingen an der Enz
- Because of the city
- Wildberg
Korngäu
Often it will Korngäu only Upper Gaeu called, it is the southeastern part of the Gaulandschaft. The places are partly on the Neckar and on the right side of the river
- Eutingen im Gäu
- Horb am Neckar
- Rottenburg am Neckar
- Herrenberg
- Jettingen
- Bondorf
- Gäufelden
Other goals
background
The expression Gäu indicates that this originally rural region has predominantly fertile soil. Most of the time loess is found above the shell limestone bedrock. However, the quality of the arable land is not equally good everywhere. While in Long field at Markgröningen finds very good soils, they are often stony at the transition to the Black Forest. In the past, these were read off and piled up to form stone bars at the edges. Hedges like to settle here, hence the name Schlehengäu.
In the greater Stuttgart area, however, the focus is on industrial use; often places in the vicinity of industrial centers have grown significantly and have partly lost their rural character.
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getting there
In the street
The A8 (Karlsruhe - Pforzheim-Stuttgart) and A81 (Heilbronn - Stuttgart - Tübingen) motorways cross the Gäu, as does the B10 federal highway.
By train
- The Stuttgart S-Bahn offers good transport links
- The Strohgäubahn from Korntal to Weissach is more or less just a museum railway.
