The Eastern Upper Lusatia is divided as follows into mesogeochores and microgeochores and hills:[1]
12 Eastern Upper Lusatia
11002 Zittau Basin (65.04 km²)
Hirschfeld Neiße Valley
Olbersdorf Ridge
Northern Zittau Basin
Southern Zittau Basin
Zittau Neiße and Mandau Valley
Olbersdorf Open-Cast Mine (Olbersdorfer See)
11003 Großschönau Basin and Kuppenland (60.97 km² in SN; continues into Czechia)
Spitzkunnersdorf Kuppen Region (in CZ: Varnsdorfský Špičák 544.3 m; Hofebusch and Richterberg (469.3 m), Lindeberg 459.3 m Forstenberg 454.8 m, Pfaffenberg 418.1 m, Wiedeberg 396.6 m)
Seifhennersdorf Kuppen Region (border region of the otherwise entirely Czech southeastern part of the Lusatian Highlands; Frenzelsberg 468.2 m)
Oberoderwitz Kuppen Region (Oberoderwitzer Spitzberg 510.0 m, Großer Stein 471 m, Hofeberg 413.6 m)
Großschönau Basin (z. T. in Tschechien); Finkenhübel 410;6 m,
Hutberg (371.5 m)
Bertsdorf Kuppen Region (Steinberg 442.5 m, Seidelsberg 433.4 m)
Hainewald Kuppen Region (Pocheberg 465.8 m, Scheibeberg 422.7 m)
Landeskrone-Biesnitz Kuppen Region (up to 420.0 m)
Town of Görlitz
Kunnersdorf Kuppen Region
Gersdorf Loess Plateau
Emmerichswald Plateau
11012 Reichenbach Loess Hills (79.14 km²)
Rotstein Ridge (Rotstein 453.7 m, Hengstberg 421.3 m, Georgenberg 396.5 m, Horkenberg 331.9 m; on the far side of the railway and
B 6: Rosenhainer Berg 307.9 m)
Sohlander Loess Hills (Paulsdorfer Spitzberg 370,9 m, Heideberg 341.3 m, Steinberg 322.0 m, Silberberg 313.7 m)
Kleinradmeritz Loess Plateau (Petzschkenberg: 227.5 m, ridge west of Glossen: a good 220 m)
Reichenbach Loess Hills
Meuselwitz Loess Hills
Mengelsdorf Loess Hills
Friedersdorf Hills (Friedersdorfer Berg 398.7 m,
Schwarzer Berg 390,5 m, Kreuzberg 365.6 m)
11013 Königshain Hills (66.49 km²)
Hills of Liebstein (Liebsteiner Berg: 294.6 m)
Niesky-Rengersdorf Slate Hills (Heideberg: 249.9 m)
Hochstein-Kämpferberg Ridge (397.2 m und 415 m; Königshain Hills)
Notes
^Actually the 395.3 m high main summit according to maps – like the clearly well known neighbour in the north – is called the Schafberg and the Jäckelberg at 388.5 m and the Jäckelbaude is only the northern top. Locally the hill is better known as the Jäckelberg.
Landscape and geology
The natural region is very varied and characterized by hill ranges, isolated hills, plateau and basins alongside one another. Ice age
ground moraines, meltwater sands and the overlying
loess soils fill out the
granite relief to varying degrees. The loess loam is generally only about 1 to 1.5 m thick. As witnesses to the
Tertiaryvolcanism of the area there are
lava plains and isolated hills of
basalt and
phonolite. In the Zittau and Oderwitz Basin, as well as the Berzdorf Basin there are important deposits of
brown coal in the sediments.
Climatically Eastern Upper Lusatia lies partially in the lee of the Upper Lusatian Highlands. For example, onlyr 665 mm of precipitation falls annually. The average annual temperature lies between 8 and 8.6 °C. The potential natural vegetation here is
Wood Bedstraw-
Hornbeam-
Oak forest with
Small-leaved Limes.
Mannsfeld, K. und Syrbe, R.-U. (eds.): Naturräume in Sachsen mit Kartenbeilage "Naturräumliche Gliederung Sachsens", in: Forschungen zur deutschen Landeskunde (Vol. 257), Deutsche Akademie für Landeskunde, Selbstverlag, Leipzig, 2008,
ISBN978-3-88143-078-4