Westerwald (natural region) explained
Westerwald |
Identifikator: | 32 |
Systematik: | HNGD |
Ordnung1: | Central Uplands |
Ordnung2 Identifikator: | 24–25, 27–33, 56 |
Ordnung2: | Rhenish Massif |
Landschaftstyp: | Mittelgebirge (basement, partly volcanically uplifted) |
Max-Höhe: | 657.3 |
Breitengrad: | 50/39/40.06/N |
Längengrad: | 8/6/5.2812/E |
Region-Iso: | DE-RP/DE-HE/DE-NW |
Bundesland: | Hesse |
Bundesland2: | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Bundesland3: | Rhineland-Palatinate |
Staat: | Germany |
Poskarte: | Deutschland Naturraum Rheinisches Schiefergebirge |
Poskartecaption: | Lage der Fuchskaute als höchster Erhebung des Westerwaldes (32) innerhalb des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges |
As well as being a low mountain range, the Westerwald is also a natural region in the system of natural regional division of Germany. Within that it is a major unit group with the number "32". According to this system the major unit group of the Westerwald belongs to the basement plate (Grundgebirgsschollenland), which describes the type of mountain-building process by which it was formed. The major unit group extends across the states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is roughly bounded by the valleys of the Lahn (east and south), Rhine and Sieg (via Heller), whereby the hills immediately south of the Heller and Sieg are not considered to be part of it.
Natural region divisions
Below the major unit group are the major units which, in turn, are divided into sub-units, part-units and base-units.[1] [2] [3] [4]
- 320.00 Breidenbach Bottom
- 320.01 Bottenhorn Plateaux
- 320.05 Krofdorf-Königsberg Forest
- 320.11 Elnhausen-Michelbach Bowl
- 320.13 Niederweidbach Basin
- 320.2 Upper Lahn Valley
- 321 - Dill Valley (174 km2)
- 321.1 Upper Dill Valley (with Dietzhölze valley)
- 322.0 Westerwald Basalt Plateaux
- 322.1 Neunkhausen-Weitefeld Plateau
- 323 - Upper Westerwald (669 km2)
- 323.0 Westerwald East Slope (Dill Westerwald)
- 323.1 Upper Westerwald Kuppenland
- 323.2 Dreifeld Weiherland
- 323.3 South Upper Westerwald Hills
- 324.0 Emsbach-Gelbach Heights
- 324.02 Plateaux of Welschneudorf
- 324.04 Eppenrode Plateau (Hochstein Ridge)
- 324.3 Kannenbäcker Plateaux
- 324.5 Waldbreitbach Wied Valley
- 324.60 Isenburg Sayn Valley
- 324.8 Asbach-Altenkirchen Plateaux
- 324.81 Altenkirchen Plateau
The Westerwald in a narrower sense is generally considered to be the major unit groups 322 to 324.
References
- http://map1.naturschutz.rlp.de/landschaften_rlp/grosslandschaft.php?gl_nr=32 Landschaften in Rheinland-Pfalz: Westerwald
- http://atlas.umwelt.hessen.de/atlas/naturschutz/naturraum/karten/32.htm Map
- http://www.bfn.de/0503_karten.html Map service
- http://map1.naturschutz.rlp.de/mapserver_lanis/ Map service of Rhineland-Palatinate
External links
- BfN-Landschaftssteckbriefe:
Literature
- Emil Meynen, J. Schmithüsen et al. (eds.): Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen, 1953–1962 (Part 1, contains issues 1–5), .
- Emil Meynen, J. Schmithüsen et al. (eds.): Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Selbstverlag der Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen, 1959–1962 (Part 2, contains issues 6–9), .