The Heckengäu located in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Regions
The Heckengäu is one of the south-west German layered landscape and lies between the Black Forest and the Neckar. In the north it borders the Enz, in the west the valley forms the Nagold the border, being in the south roughly up Haiterbach extends. They are to the east of the Heckengäus Strohgäu or Lower Gäu and the Korngäu or Upper Gäu.
The soil of the Heckengäus is sometimes quite stony, which was often read off when working the fields and piled up to form stone bars along the field paths. Hedges often grew out of this, often like Schlehenhecken in the Calw district, which is why the name is also here Schlehengäu is common. Due to the relatively high location and the proximity to the Black Forest, the fertility of the soil is lower than in the neighboring Strohgäu, so that the Heckengäu also as poor horse was qualified.
The Heckengäu flows through the Worm, which at Hildrizhausen in Schönbuch rises and in Pforzheim into which Nagold flows.
places
- Vaihingen an der Enz
- Mühlacker
- Wiernsheim
- Heimsheim
- Renningen
- Because of the city, Birthplace of the astronomer Johannes Kepler
- Wildberg in the Nagoldtal at the transition from the northern Black Forest to the Heckengäu
- Althengstett
- Gechingen
- Nagold
- Overview map: http://www.heckengaeu-info.de/stadte-und-gemeinden
Other goals
background
language
getting there
The Heckengäu has good traffic connections. The A8 goes through the north of the region that A81 runs through the adjacent Korngäu in the east. They also offer good connections B295 of Stuttgart above Because in the village to Calw and the B296 from Calw over Herrenberg to A81.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
activities
- The Gäurand hiking trail is a 120 km long hiking trail, it starts from Mühlacker above Nagold to Freudenstadt
