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.
Location
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. It lies between the
Odenwald forest and the
Tauber,
Jagst and
Neckar rivers within the counties of Main-Tauber-Kreis and Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis. It also reaches into
Hohenlohekreis and the county of Heilbronn. The Bauland is no. 128 in the classification system of the
Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany.
Etymology
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).
The Bauland is colloquially known as Baden Siberia (
Badisch Sibirien) due to its climate.
[ Zentrum und Provinz – die Entstehung von „Badisch Sibirien“ at www.erfatal-museum.de. Retrieved 10 Mar 2019.]
It is home to a form of
spelt crop called Grünkern.
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Villages in the Bauland
Sights
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The over 600-metre-long Eberstadt Dripstone Cave ( Eberstadter Tropfsteinhöhle) which is the accessible part of the Eberstadt Cave Worlds ( Eberstadter Höhlenwelten)
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Sinkhole fields as witnesses of the karst landscape
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Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
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Adelsheim: Historic old town, Bauland Local History Museum
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Osterburken: Roman Museum, Roman castra
Literature
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Published in 9 issues in 8 books from 1953–1962, updated map at 1:1,000,000 scale with major units: 1960.
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