Kernmünsterland

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The Kernmünsterland is a natural spatial unit encompassing approximately 2700 km² in the center of the main unit group Westphalian Bay as well as the historical Münsterland and in the north of Westphalia . It is surrounded to the west, north and east by the sandy landscapes of the West and East Munsterland, while the loess landscapes of Hellwegbörden and Emscherland border in the south . Geologically , it clearly stands out from the neighboring landscapes through the presence of or hardly overlaid Upper Cretaceous layers.

The Kernmünsterland is roughly delimited by the valley of the Lippe in the south and that of the Ems in the northeast, whereby the Lippetal is included in the Kernmünsterland, but the Emstal in the Ostmünsterland. It is bounded to the west by the Baumberge (up to 189 m) and Schöppinger ridge (up to 158 m) in the northwest and the Haltern mountains (up to 154 m - Hohe Mark , Borkenberge and Haard ) in the southwest, with Baumberge and Schöppinger ridge adding to the Kernmünsterland the Haltern Mountains, however, the Westmünsterland. Another mountain range is the Beckum Mountains (up to 174 m) in the southeast part of the main unit.

Location and limits

The Kernmünsterland includes the city of Münster (without northeast) in the north, the district of Coesfeld (without the extreme west with Coesfeld and Billerbeck ) in the west and the district of Warendorf (without the north with Sassenberg , Warendorf- Nord, Telgte and Ostbevern ) in the east Center of the historical Münsterland .

Also have a share in peripheral locations (counterclockwise, starting in the southwest):

Natural structure

The Kernmünsterland is divided as follows (in the finer sub-units with two decimal places, individual localities are linked for better localization):

Waters

The northeast half of the Kernmünsterland drains to the Ems , the extreme northwest to the IJsselmeer and west to south over the Lippe to the Rhine . The catchment areas of Werse (to the Ems) and Stever (to the Lippe) alone take up two thirds of the main unit.

Flowing waters

The most important rivers to the IJsselmeer are, arranged from north to south (length and catchment area in brackets [in Kernmünsterland]):

  • Steinfurter Aa (upper course; zur Vechte, see below; 46.4 [27] km, 205 [approx. 145] km²)
  • Vechte (upper upper reaches; 181.7 [13] km, 3,780 [approx. 78] km² - only 43.4 km and <410 km² in the Westphalian Bay)
  • Dinkel (only a few headwaters of tributaries; to the Vechte; 89.0 [0] km, 643 [approx. 43] km²)
  • Berkel (headwaters and headwaters of tributaries; to the IJssel ; 114.6 [2] km, [approx. 70] km²)

The most important right tributaries of the Lippe are, upstream from west to east:

The following left tributaries flow into the Ems , downstream from the southeast to the north:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c E. Meynen , J. Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, 6th delivery. Remagen 1959 (a total of 9 deliveries in 8 books 1953–1962, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960)
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information ) - Map service "Protected areas" shows the boundaries of the main unit group ("Natural areas") and the main units, the somewhat coarser map service "Landscapes" divides the natural areas a little more finely.
  3. ^ Geographical survey of the country: The natural spatial units on sheet 83/84 - Osnabrück / Bentheim (Sofie Meisel 1961; west and middle of the sheet), sheet 95/96 - Kleve / Wesel (Wilhelm von Kürten 1977; east), sheet 97 - Münster ( Sofie Meisel 1960) and sheet 98 - Detmold (Sofie Meisel 1959, minimal shares in the east) - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg → Maps
  4. ↑ a b c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Measurement per polygon in TIM with activated water map and main unit boundaries

Web links

  • Natural area maps from the individual sheets 1: 200,000 of the Federal Institute for Regional Studies - all units starting with "541" are relevant here
    • Sheet 83/84 - Osnabrück / Bentheim (west and center of the sheet)
    • Sheet 95/96 - Kleve / Wesel (east)
    • Sheet 97 - Münster
    • Sheet 98 - Detmold (minimal parts in the west)