East Munsterland

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The Ostmünsterland (also: Emssandebene or Sandmünsterland ) is a natural spatial main unit of the main unit group Westphalian Bay in North Rhine-Westphalia , to a small extent also in Lower Saxony . It adjoins the Teutoburg Forest to the south and comprises the predominantly sandy areas on the upper reaches of the Ems up to immediately above the Rhine and the Lippe up to and including Lippstadt, as well as the other tributaries on the right.

Contrary to the name given, only about half of the area of ​​the Ostmünsterland belongs to the historic Münsterland , whose heartland is more north- east than east.

Neighboring natural areas within the Westphalian Bay are the Hellwegbörden in the southeast, the Kernmünsterland in the south and southwest and the Westmünsterland in the northwest.

Location and limits

The district of Gütersloh with the majority of its area, the districts of Paderborn , Warendorf and Steinfurt as well as the cities of Münster and Bielefeld are located in the Ostmünsterland in smaller but significant parts. Furthermore, the district of Soest and the Lower Saxony district of Osnabrück touch the edge of the area.

Almost half of the natural area is therefore outside the historical Münsterland landscape , which is why the terms Ost- or Sandmünsterland could lead to confusion. On the other hand, the name Ems sand plain is also misleading, since the upper reaches of the Lippe up to and including Lippstadt, along with its catchment area on the right, are located in the natural area.

Natural structure

The Ostmünsterland is structured as follows:

  • (to 54 Westphalian Bay )
    • 540 East Munsterland
      • 540.0 Senne
        • 540.00 Hall sand slope
        • 540.01
      • 540.1 North Munsterland clay panels
        • 540.10 Stukenbrocker clay panels
        • 540.11 Steinhagener clay panels
        • 540.12 Bockhorster clay plate
        • 540.13 Versmold heather belt
        • 540.14 Glandorf clay panels
      • 540.2 East Munsterland Sands
        • 540.20 Upper Lippe Valley
        • 540.21 Benteler lowlands
        • 540.22 Grubebach lowland
        • 540.23 Delbrück ridge
        • 540.24 Rietberger Ems valley
        • 540.25 Neuenkirchen sand plain
        • 540.26 Gütersloh sand plain
      • 540.3 North Munsterland Sands
        • 540.30 Sassenberger Sand
        • 540.31 Hesselteicher lowlands
        • 540.32 Greven-Beverner Sande
        • 540.33 Hohner Mark
        • 540.34 Flute Low
        • 540.35 Ladbergen sand
        • 540.36 Saerbeck sand
        • 540.37 Parent Sand
        • 540.38 Emsdetten sand plate
        • 540.39 Handorf sand plate
      • 540.4 Münsterländer Emstal and Rhedaer Sandplatte (?)
        • 540.40 Münsterländer Emstal
        • 540.41 Harsewinkeler Emstal
        • 540.42 Rheda sand plate

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The author Sofie Meisel mentions Emssandebene and Sandmünsterland in the Handbook of Natural Spatial Structure of Germany in 1959 as an alternative name, while she no longer mentions them in the individual sheets that refined the categories that followed immediately up to 1961.
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information ) - Map service "Protected areas" shows the boundaries of the main unit group ("Natural areas") and the main units, the somewhat coarser map service "Landscapes" divides the natural areas a little more finely.
  3. ^ E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen : Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, 6th delivery Remagen 1959 (a total of 9 deliveries in 8 books 1953–1962, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960)
  4. ↑ Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 83/84 - Osnabrück / Bentheim (Sofie Meisel 1961; middle and east), sheet 85 Minden (Sofie Meisel 1959; west), sheet 97 - Münster (Sofie Meisel 1960; west) and sheet 98 - Detmold (Sofie Meisel 1959), - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg
  5. ↑ For inexplicable reasons, no explicit name is given for the unit 340.0 in the individual sheets concerned.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 41.8 "  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 43.5"  E