Rhine rail
The term Rheinschiene describes a region along the Rhine and the railway lines that run along the Rhine , the left and right Rhine route .
The spatial extent of the respective region indicated varies. The term is mostly only used for areas in North Rhine-Westphalia , relatively rarely and to a maximum extent also for a region from Basel to Rotterdam . The state development plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia of 1970 designated an area between Bonn and Duisburg as the "Rhine rail region". In another publication, the independent cities of Bonn, Duisburg, Düsseldorf , Cologne , Krefeld , Leverkusen and Mülheim an der Ruhr as well as the districts of Mettmann , Neuss , Rhein-Erft and Rhein-Sieg are assigned. Within these limits, the population was around 4.87 million in 1994, which corresponds to a population density of 1662 inhabitants per square kilometer. The Rheinschiene cultural region as one of ten cultural regions in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia includes the independent cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn and Leverkusen as well as the Rhein-Sieg district and the Rhein-Erft district. There are overlaps with the Cologne / Bonn region .
This area of the Rhine rail, together with the Ruhr area, forms the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region , which in turn can be regarded as part of the megalopolis called the Blue Banana .
literature
- Ewald Gläßer, Martin W. Schmied, Claus-Peter Woitschützke: North Rhine-Westphalia. Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1997, ISBN 3-623-00691-2
Web links
- Rheinschiene , regional cultural policy nrw
- Rheinschiene , industriekultur-nrw.de
- "Rheinschiene Adventure Trail" - cycle path along the Rhine
Individual evidence
- ^ Ewald Gläßer, Martin W. Schmied, Claus-Peter Woitschützke: North Rhine-Westphalia. Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha 1997, ISBN 3-623-00691-2 , pp. 108-116
- ↑ The ten cultural regions in North Rhine-Westphalia , regional culture policy nrw