Low mountain range threshold

Map of the natural division of Germany. The low mountain range sill extends between the North German lowlands and the South German layer level country or Alpine foreland

As a Central European or German central mountain threshold to the designated by low mountains , hills countries and intervening valley bogs dominated landscape just south of the Central European lowlands and in Germany, the North German Plain . It includes the Ardennes north of the River Main , among other things, the entire Rhenish Slate Mountains , the Lower Saxony Bergland besides Weserbergland , the West and East Hesse Highlands along with Rhon , theHarz as well as the Thuringian-Franconian low mountain range with the Thuringian Forest and Fichtel Mountains .

The east of the low mountain range is occupied by the Bohemian Massif , which extends south to the Danube and, in addition to the Sudetes , the Ore Mountains and the Bavarian Forest, covers a large part of the area of ​​the Czech Republic.

The Central European Central Mountain Sill forms the northern part of the Central European Central Mountain Area . Within Germany, more than half of all low mountain ranges lie on the low mountain range threshold.

Location and limits

The dividing line to the North German Plain runs comparatively sharply to the north and west . In the far east, the upper reaches of the Oder and the lower reaches of the March form partial borders with the Carpathian Mountains , while in the eastern south the Danube separates the low mountain range from the Alps and the foreland .

In the south of Germany, to the west as far as the Upper Rhine Rift , the southern German layer level region joins, which begins immediately southeast of the ridges of the Bavarian Forest and Fichtelgebirge , further west just north of the Main and extends south to the Danube with the Alpine foothills behind it .

To the west of the Upper Rhine, the low mountain range sill is joined to the south by the northern French layered plains , which also occupies German soil in the Palatinate around the mountain ranges of the North Palatinate Bergland and Palatinate Forest .

Mountains of the low mountain range threshold

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The following list is structured from west to east, in subordination from north to south:

• Rhenish Slate Mountains (left bank of the Rhine)
  • Ardennes and Eifel
  • Hunsrück
• Rhenish Slate Mountains (right bank of the Rhine)
  • Süderbergland (with Rothaargebirge )
  • Westerwald
  • Taunus
• Western Lower Saxony Upland and West Hessian Upland
  • Lower Weser Uplands with Teutoburg Forest
  • Upper Weserbergland with Egge Mountains
  • Habichtswald
  • Kellerwald
• Eastern Lower Saxony Upland and East Hessian Upland
  • Weser-Leine-Bergland with Solling
  • Kaufunger Wald and Hoher Meißner
  • Crunch
  • Vogelsberg and Rhön
• Harz , Thuringian Basin and Thuringian-Franconian low mountain range
  • resin
  • Thuringian basin with Kyffhäuser
  • Thuringian Forest
  • Thuringian Slate Mountains
  • Franconian Forest
  • Fichtel Mountains
• Bohemian mass
  • Northern boundary ( Ore Mountains and Sudetes , from west to east)
    • Ore Mountains
    • Elbe Sandstone Mountains
    • Upper Lusatia (with Lusatian Mountains and Lusatian Mountains )
    • Jizera Mountains
    • Giant Mountains
    • Glatzer mountain country
    • Jeseníky Mountains
  • Southwest boundary ( Bohemian Forest in the broader sense)
    • Upper Palatinate Forest
    • Bavarian forest

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elevation layers of Europe. In: Ernst Klett Verlag - Haack Weltatlas SI. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .