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Swabian Jura

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Swabian Jura
Topographic map of the Swabian Jura.
Topographic map of the Swabian Jura.
Geography
Altitude 1015 m, Lemberg
Solid Jura Mountains
Length 220 km
Width 70 km
Administration
Country Flag: Germany Germany
Lnder Baden-Wuerttemberg , Bavaria
Geology
Age Jurassic
Rocks Limestone
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The Swabian Jura (, in German. is a mountain range in south-western Germany.

Geography

The Swabian Jura extends from the depression Ries south-west. The Albtrauf its northwestern slope, separating the plateau of the Albvorland. The Swabian Jura is bounded on the south-east by the Danube and the Hegau. South-west, its border coincides with that of the Swabian dialects between Tuttlingen Spaichingen and, although it often includes areas beyond this limit. Thus, this chain extends 200 km from southwest to northeast, with a maximum width of 40 km in its central part. Small valleys, enlivened by vineyards and orchards, interspersed with small wooded terrain.

East of the Black Forest , between Stuttgart and Lake Constance , the high limestone plateau of the Swabian Alps peak at 1015 meters, at Lemberg.

From a geological perspective, the Swabian Jura is related to the cuesta West Germanic. It is a component of Tafeljura, between Basel and depression Ries, and which itself forms, with the Jura folds and the Franconian Jura , the Jura between Geneva and Cobourg.

Gallery

The source of Blautopf in Blaubeuren

The granting customs Balingen

The Danube valley view heights Knopfmachen upstream Beuron

Water tower in Hausen-im-Tal / Beuron

Mountain Rund at Bad Urach

Falling Urach

Typical landscape of the Swabian Jura: the Kornbhl near Salmendingen

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