Middle Rhine area

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Map of the Middle Rhine

The Middle Rhine area is a natural spatial main unit group in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and thus also the low mountain range threshold . It is mostly in Rhineland-Palatinate , the extreme north in North Rhine-Westphalia and the extreme south-east in Hesse .

In addition to the Middle Rhine , which stretches from Bingen to above Bonn , the Middle Rhine area in the southwest of the central, strikingly wide Middle Rhine basin contains u. a. also the valley of the Moselle from Moselkern to the mouth at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz and the valley of the Ahr from Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler . Furthermore, various mountain ranges on the banks of the Rhine include, u. a. the Siebengebirge , in addition.

Location relative to the other main unit groups

The Middle Rhine region stretches as a typical valley depression from the southeast to the northwest. In its center, in the Moselle valley from the left and in the Gießen-Koblenzer Lahntal from the right, two further valley depressions, which separate the low mountain ranges on both sides of the Rhine, meet the depression transversely. Up the Rhine to the south-east, the valley widens to the Upper Rhine Graben and the Rhine-Main lowlands to the east , and down the Rhine to the north-west to the Cologne Bay .

In the Middle Rhine region, south of the Moselle and Lahn, Hunsrück (left bank of the Rhine) and Taunus (right), further north East Eifel (left) and Westerwald face each other. In the extreme northeast, the landscape borders on the Süderbergland , which is roughly separated from the Westerwald by the (still added) valley of the Sieg .

Natural structure

The Middle Rhine area is structured as follows (code numbers of the immediate Rhine valley sections in bold):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interactive map service and descriptions of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration
  2. ↑ a b c Exact name of the natural space unit unknown!

General sources