Niederbergisch-Märkisches hill country

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Niederbergisch-Märkisches hill country
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Greater region 1st order Low mountain range threshold
Greater region 2nd order Rhenish Slate Mountains
Main unit group 33 →
Süderbergland
About main unit 337 →
Bergisch-Sauerland lowlands
Natural space 337 1 →
Niederbergisch-Märkisches hill country
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 23 '42 "  N , 7 ° 24' 12"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '42 "  N , 7 ° 24' 12"  E
Niederbergisch-Märkisches Hügelland (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Niederbergisch-Märkisches hill country
Location Niederbergisch-Märkisches hill country
state North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany

With low Bergisch-Märkische hills of the northwestern part of the right bank Schiefergebirges in is Niederbergisches country and in the northwest of the Lower Bergisch country called. It extends from the Ruhr valley along with the right edge heights between below Wetters and Mülheim in the north to the Wupper valley near Wuppertal in the south; to the west it borders on the Bergische Heideterrasse , which already leads into the Cologne Bay . To the right of the Ruhr, the Ardey Mountains are also included in the extreme northeast .

The name comes from the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany , which identifies the landscape as the main natural spatial unit within the main unit group 33 Süderbergland . In its 4./5. Delivery from 1957, mapped by the map 1: 1,000,000 from 1954, this main unit, excluding the Ardey Mountains, still bore the code number 337 and was referred to as Niederbergisches Hügelland (Bergisches Unterland) . Since the more recent mapping from 1960, the code number has been changed to 337 1 and the demarcation changed accordingly. The extension to include the Ardey Mountains is not yet shown in the Düsseldorf sheet of 1963, but it is in the Arnsberg sheet of 1969, which divides the extreme east of the main unit.

The Niederbergisch-Märkisches Hügelland corresponds in parts to the cultural landscape of the Niederbergisch-Märkisches Land , which however does not include the Ruhr valley (or only that below Witten ) and extends south to Remscheid and Solingen .

Location and limits

The Niederbergisch-Märkisch hill country is limited by the following places:

In addition to the Ruhr in the north and a small section of the Wupper in the south, the valley of the Ennepe from Gevelsberg together with the mouth of the Volme border valley in the east, but is already outside the main unit. A little further away and separated by the Heideterrasen as an intermediate stage, the Rhine forms a western border river.

Natural structure

The Niederbergisch-Märkisch hill country is structured as follows:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen : 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).
  2. ^ A b Karlheinz Paffen, Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 108/109 Düsseldorf / Erkelenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF, 7.3 MB)
  3. ↑ a b Martin Bürgener: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 110 Arnsberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF, 5.7 MB)
  4. ↑ Cultural landscapes according to LWL with download of the corresponding maps (administrative districts Düsseldorf and Arnsberg, reference number 20)
  5. ↑ This over-main unit basically only combines two independent main units, which is owed to the fact that the decadal system only allows 10 three-digit numbers between 330 and 339, but the Süderbergland has 12 main units.