Asbach plateau
| Asbach plateau | |||
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| Systematics according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | ||
| Greater region 1st order | Low mountain range threshold | ||
| Greater region 2nd order | Rhenish Slate Mountains | ||
| Main unit group | 32 → Westerwald |
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| 4th order region (main unit) |
324 → Niederwesterwald |
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| 5th order region | 324.8 → Niederwesterwälder Hochmulde |
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| Natural space |
324.80 → Asbach plateau |
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| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 40 ′ 0 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 33" E | ||
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| circle | Neuwied district , Rhein-Sieg district | ||
| state | Rhineland-Palatinate , North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Asbach plateau is a natural area in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate and in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located near Asbach in the northwest of the Westerwald at an average altitude of about 280 m above sea level. NHN and belongs to the natural spatial main unit Niederwesterwald . The plateau has an extension of about 150 km 2 .
The Asbach plateau is part of a high trough, which it forms together with the Altenkirchen plateau to the east as the Asbach-Altenkirchener plateau ( Niederwesterwälder high trough ) and which rises significantly at the southern and eastern border and slightly at the western transition to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge. Parts of the plateau are cut up by side valleys of the Wied , which delimit the landscape to the south. To the northwest it merges smoothly into the Pleiser hill country . The valley shapes on the Asbach plateau alternate between Riedel , Kasten and Mulden . Located on and near the watershed of Wied and Sieg , the landscape includes its tributaries Hanfbach , Pfaffenbach , Wahler Bach and Mehrbach . Isolated volcanic elevations, including the highest Dachsberg ( 362.2 m above sea level ), enliven the landscape as singular phenomena. The landscape, including its vegetation , is partly shaped by the remains of mining, especially basalt and quartzite mining.
The landscape includes u. a. Areas of the following cities and communities: Asbach, Bad Honnef ( Aegidienberg district ), Buchholz , Ersfeld , Giershausen , Königswinter (especially Oberhau ), Neustadt (Wied) , Orfgen , Vettelschoss and Windhagen .
View of Asbach
On the western edge of the Asbach plateau
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literature
- Institute for Regional Studies (ed.); Heinz Fischer (arrangement): The natural units on sheet 124 Siegen . Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning , self-published, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1972, p. 17 f. (= Geographical Land Survey 1: 200,000. Natural spatial structure of Germany ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The regional structure of Rhineland-Palatinate
- ↑ a b Heinrich Müller-Miny: The Niederwesterwald and its natural spatial structure . In: Federal Institute for Regional Studies (Ed.): Reports on German Regional Studies . Volume 21, Issue 2 (September 1958), self-published by the Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen 1958, pp. 233–246 (here: pp. 242–244).