Middle Rhine Taunus

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The Middle Rhine Taunus is a natural sub-unit of the western Hintertaunus with the division number 304.6. It lies between the Bacharacher Tal ( Upper Middle Rhine Valley ) in the southwest, the Lower Lahn valley in the north, the Nastätter Mulde and the Zorner plateau in the east and the Wispertaunus in the southeast.

Natural spatial structure of the Taunus

Natural location

The Middle Rhine Taunus is 2 to 5 km wide and 350 to 456.6  m above sea level. NN high-lying, moderately cut rump plateau with wide, wavy Riedel heights, gentle trough valleys and troughs of origin. In the south it is made up of Hunsrück slates, while the middle section and the northern part consist of the varied layers of the Emser level and, in the far north, also of slates from the lowest Middle Devonian. These parts arch as a wide plateau ridge over the terrace floor of the Rhine and the neighboring Nastätter Mulde . The highest point here is the Great Dachskopf ( 456.6  m ). The watershed between the Rhine and Lahn, Mühlbach and Wisper does not run in a straight line across the ridge, but bulges several times to the east, because of the receding erosion of the streams draining into the Rhine. The valleys directed towards the Rhine are therefore very deep, but in contrast to their steep lower valley stretches further above, they have broad meadows with pendulous brooks and run out in shallow, meadow-covered basins. In the northern part the landscape is densely forested, in the central and southern part the forest is mainly limited to the valley slopes. The agricultural areas are mostly used as arable land, only in the upper areas of the stream valleys is grassland.

Natural structure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map service and landscape description "Middle Rhine Taunus" of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration
  2. ↑ Map ( Taunus & Gießen-Koblenzer Lahntal ) and legend ( Taunus ) -  attention: web links without return!  - Environmental Atlas Hessen of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology: The natural areas of Hesse and their main units