Dolnomoravský úval

Dolnomoravský úval is a natural lowland area in the Czech Republic with a flat to hilly terrain with a median altitude of about 183 m, in terms of regional geomorphological division of the shape of the Earth's surface (georelief) territorially delimited by a geomorphological total of 988 km² in southern Moravia. In terms of administrative administration, it is situated in the South Moravian Region and in the northeastern tip of the Morava River from Uherský Ostroh to Napajedla in the Zlín Region. In the South Moravian Region, the natural area is limited by the floodplain of the Dyje River from Strachotín (in the flow of the Lower Nové Mlýny Reservoir) and the floodplain of the Morava River from Veselí nad Moravou to the confluence of both rivers in the territorial tip of the state territory below Lanžhot. border of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. The highest point is the hill Staré hory (302 m) in the cadastral territory Úvaly near Valtice (part of the village Valtice), the state border with Austria (about 37 m northeast of the border stone on the Czech side) trigonometric point at altitude 301 , 65 m). The lowest position is at an altitude of about 150 m at the level of the confluence of the Dyje and Morava rivers in the cadastral area of ​​Lanžhot. In the southern part of the area there is the town of Břeclav (more cultural monuments, such as a castle with a lookout tower, museums, park Kančí obora etc.), convenient starting point to the whole area, railway station on a significant Czech railway corridor with railway line 250 - Lanžhot, state border), from there the railway connection in the direction of Valtice to Sedlec (line 246 to Znojmo), to Lednice in the Dyje valley floodplain (line 247) and along the Morava river to Napajedla (line 330 to Přerov). One of the most important landscapes in the Czech landscaped by man, the Lednice-Valtice area, such as Lednice castle, hunting lodge, John's Castle, Minaret in the Moorish Oriental style with a view (in the view, for example Pálava, White Carpathians, good visibility and Alps), Pond and Border Chateau on the edge of the National Nature Reserve Lednice Ponds (nature trail). By the Morava River, the important town of Hodonín, here the chateau, in the part of the Masaryk Museum, an exposition about the life and work of the Hodonín native and the first Czechoslovak President Tomáš G. Masaryk (1850–1937). Higher upstream of the town of Strážnice, known for its folklore festivals, the seat of the National Institute of Folk Culture at the chateau, the so-called Skalická Gate (part of the former fortifications) on the outskirts of the chateau. into resistance and executed for II. world. war. In Strážnice, an important museum of the village of south-eastern Moravia, since 1973 it presents folk architecture of the ethnographic region of Slovácko, the so-called Moravian Kopanice and Horňácko, as well as technical water structures and viticulture. Artifacts of fossilized plants and small animals often appear in the uncovered layers of the Dolnomoravský úval rocks, and paleontological findings can be seen in museums. It comes from the so-called lignite seams of popularly called young coal, in the so-called brown-coal hemiphase, ie less valuable, with low calorific value and they are part of the South Moravian (lignite) basin. Dubňanská sloj is known in the Moravian lowland with limited breaks, roughly on the lines Břeclav - Mutěnice and Lanžhot - Ratíškovice. In the area also to a lesser extent oil and gas extraction. On a larger scale, the South Moravian Basin is a geomorphological sub-system with the area of ​​the larger Vienna Basin, referred to in the Czech territory as a geomorphological system. It is situated in the northwest of the European morphostructure of the West-Pannonian Basin, in the Czech territory the name used to denote the second area of ​​the smallest geomorphological province. Region (random point) added to Google Maps, rec. CZ200227