Dortmund Hellwegtal

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The Dortmund Hellwegtal is a valley basin that runs in Westphalia , immediately north of the Hellweg , from the northeast of Unna ( Unna district ), west of the Mühlhausen - Lünern line , to the west and south-southwest to the northern core city of Dortmund at the port , where it flows into the Emschertal transforms.

The transverse to the running in the northern direction side streams of Seseke or the Körne Bach extending, fairly narrow in the north-south direction sink is natural spatially the sub Börden the Hellwegbörden but allocated is different from the other part of landscapes noticeably. The shallow ground is quite loess , but tends to become compacted and waterlogged, which is why it was historically mainly used as grassland, apart from the northern part of Dortmund in the west, which has been populated for a long time.

Settlement

Today the east of the valley is only clearly populated in the north of Unna , especially in the Königsborn district , and its center in the south of the Dortmund districts of Husen and Kurl around the old Fleier settlement and in the far north of Asseln .

Only the west is populated continuously from the districts of Scharnhorst-Ost and Alt-Scharnhorst along with the north from Brackel and Wambel via the area of ​​the main station to the north of the core city.

Adjacent natural areas

The following natural areas border on the Dortmund Hellweg Valley (unless otherwise documented, all of them belong to the main unit Hellwegbörden ):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Geographical survey of the country: The natural space units on sheet 97 - Münster (Sofie Meisel 1960, west of the sheet) - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg

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