Lipper heights

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Lipper heights
Highest peak Hill southeast Ascheberg - Herberns ( 116.9  m above sea level.  NN )
location Westphalia
part of Kernmünsterlandes
Classification according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Lipper Heights (Regional Association Ruhr)
Lipper heights
Coordinates 51 ° 43 ′  N , 7 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′  N , 7 ° 42 ′  E
surface 234 km²
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The Lipper Heights are an open, cultivated, hilly landscape in the south of the Münsterland and in the north-east of the Ruhr area, adjoining the Middle Lippetal to the north of the Lippe . The landscape is naturally part of the Kernmünsterland . In the maximum 117 m high, in west-east direction up to 35 km wide and around 234 km² large landscape, there are forest areas, but agricultural use is predominant.

Location and limits

The Lipper Heights extend from Olfen ( Coesfeld district ) in the west to Ahlen ( Warendorf district ) in the east. In the south, the ridge is bounded by the Lippe near Lünen , Werne (both Unna district ) and Hamm , to the north it extends to Nordkirchen (Coesfeld district, west north) and Drensteinfurt - Walstedde (Warendorf district, east north).

To the south of the Lippe, the Lipper Heights face the 100 m high Kamen hill country in the north-west of the Hellwegbörden .

The heights between Lippe and Stever run out to the west . In the south-east of the Westmünsterland , beyond the Lippe in the south-west, the up to 154 m high Haard joins, beyond the Stever in the north-west the up to 133 m high Borkenberge .

Natural structure

The Lipper heights are structured as follows:

  • to 541 Kernmünsterland
    • 541.5 Lipper heights
      • 541.50 Cappenberger Heights
      • 541.51 Südkirchen hill country
      • 541.52 Werner Mountain and hill country

The up to 112 m high Cappenberger heights around Selm- Cappenberg, together with the castle and forest, lie north of the Lippe near Lünen and stretch north-west to Selm , in a narrower ridge even to Olfen .

To the northeast, north of the Lippe between Werne and Hamm and to the north as far as Ascheberg - Herbern and Drensteinfurt - Walstedde , there is the up to 117 m high Werner mountain and hill country .

To the north, the Cappenberger heights merge into the flat, undulating Südkirchen hill country around Nordkirchen - Südkirchen .

Surveys

The highest and most important peaks in the Lipper Bergland include:

Individual evidence

  1. Landscape profile  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the BfN@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bfn.de  
  2. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  3. ^ A b Sofie Meisel: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 97 Münster. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  4. Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )

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