Middle Alb foreland - Mittleres Albvorland

The Middle Alb foreland is limited in the north by the Fils river, in the south by the Albtrauf and in the west by the Neckar. In the east it connects to the Eastern Alb foreland.

Lichtenstein Castle near Pfullingen

Regions

The central foothills of the Swabian Alb lies between the Alb eaves of the Middle Swabian Alb up to SchönbuchFilder and Virgin forestof which it is through Neckar and Fils is separated. Fertile fields and orchards that bloom profusely in spring were once the hallmarks of this landscape, but small and medium-sized towns characterized by industry and trade have now become typical of this region. The numerous witness mountains such as the Achalm near Reutlingen or the Hohenneuffen are typical, as are the bulges along the Alb eaves as in the area of ​​the Teck, also the partially deeply cut valleys of the rivers Echaz, Ermsthat flows to the Neckar volume up and of course the Fils.

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Map of the Middle Alb foreland
Reutlingen OT Gönningen
  • 1 PfullingenWebsite of this institutionPfullingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaPfullingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsPfullingen (Q82053) in the Wikidata database
  • 2 ReutlingenWebsite of this institutionReutlingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaReutlingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsReutlingen (Q3085) in the Wikidata database
  • 3 MetzingenWebsite of this institutionMetzingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaMetzingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsMetzingen (Q82881) in the Wikidata database
  • 4 NürtingenWebsite of this institutionNürtingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaNürtingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsNürtingen (Q14853) in the Wikidata database
  • 5 WendlingenWebsite of this institutionWendlingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaWendlingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsWendlingen (Q81860) in the Wikidata database
  • 6 WernauWebsite of this institutionWernau in the encyclopedia WikipediaWernau in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsWernau (Q82346) in the Wikidata database
  • 7 Ebersbach an der FilsWebsite of this institutionEbersbach an der Fils in the encyclopedia WikipediaEbersbach an der Fils in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsEbersbach an der Fils (Q80844) in the Wikidata database
  • 8 UhingenWebsite of this institutionUhingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaUhingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsUhingen (Q80826) in the Wikidata database
  • 9 GoeppingenWebsite of this institutionGöppingen in the encyclopedia WikipediaGöppingen in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsGöppingen (Q4072) in the Wikidata database

Other goals

background

The fils rises at Wiesensteig in the Helfensteiner Land. At Geislingen it leaves the heights of the Swabian Alb and flows between the Alb foreland and the Virgin forest in the direction Plochingen to the Neckar, it forms the border of the region to the north.

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By plane

The Stuttgart AirportWebsite of this institutionStuttgart Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaStuttgart Airport in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsStuttgart Airport (Q158732) in the Wikidata database(IATA: STR) is only a few kilometers away on the left side of the Neckar

By train

The Stuttgart-Ulm railway runs through the Filstal and reaches its Alb ascent near Geislingen.

A new line is currently under construction Wendlingen Cross the Neckar, through the Middle Alb foreland and over the Teck Weilheim an der Teck and Merklingen to Ulm to lead. Commissioning will not take place before December 2022.

In the street

The foothills of the Alb play an important role on the way south across the Swabian Alb. Here runs the A8, she crosses at Wendlingen the Neckar, goes through it Teck and overcomes at Wiesensteig as a shared route Drackensteiner slope up to the Albtrauf. Another important artery is the B10that at Wernau crosses the Neckar and along the Fils Goeppingen and on towards Bask leads

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