Editing Geography of Württemberg (section)

==Orography==

The chief mountains include the [[Black Forest]] on the west, the [[Swabian Alb]] or Rauhe Alb stretching across the middle of the area from south-west to north-east, and the [[Adelegg]] mountains in the extreme south-east, adjoining the [[Allgäu Alps]] in [[Bavaria]]. The Rauhe Alb (or Alp) slopes gradually down into the plateau on its southern side, but on the north it appears sometimes rugged and steep, its line broken by isolated projecting hills. The highest summits, the Lemberg {{convert|3326|ft|m}}, the Ober-Hohenberg {{convert|3312|ft|m}} and the Plettenberg {{convert|3293|ft|m}}, lie in the southwest.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=856}}

To the south of the Swabian Alb the plateau of [[Upper Swabia]] stretches to [[Lake Constance]] and eastwards across the [[Iller]] into Bavaria. Between the Alb and the Black Forest in the north-west lie the fertile terraces of Lower Swabia, which continue north-eastwards into [[Franconia]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=856}}