The Lower Rhine Plain (German: Niederrheinisches Tiefland ) is one of the natural regions of Germany and lies on either side of the Rhine north of the city of Düsseldorf .
6-729: The Lower Rhine Plain is bordered in the south by the Lower Rhine Bay and Cologne Lowland , in the southeast by the Bergisches Land , to the east and northeast by the Westphalian Basin and in the west by the Netherlands . The Lower Rhine Plain is an extensively terraced landscape. The otherwise level terraces are interrupted by various features like the V-shaped valleys, flood plains, old river courses or
12-680: Is occasionally used, pars pro toto , for the entire region. The Lower Rhine Bay covers an area of 3,584.4 km². The Lower Rhine Bay is bordered to the east by the Berg Plateaux ( Bergische Hochflächen ), the western slopes of the Süder Uplands in the historic Bergisches Land . To the south, are the Lower Middle Rhine region including the Pleiser Hills, Siebengebirge and Lower Middle Rhine Valley, to
18-682: The Lower Rhine Bight , is a lowland plain in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that cuts into the Rhenish Massif . From a natural region perspective it is a major unit group which includes the Cologne Lowland around the city of Cologne as well as the land lying to the west and, in a clearly narrower strip of land, to the east of the central Cologne plain. That said, the term "Cologne Bay" or "Cologne Bight"
24-540: The terminal moraine ridges of the Lower Rhine Heights . The height of the terrain is under 100m above NN almost everywhere. The Lower Rhine Plain is the northern half of the geological structure known as the Lower Rhine Bay ( Niederrheinische Bucht ). Its geology was probably a result of deposition in the last 30 million years, which has given rise to sediments and layers of sedimentary rock in this plain up to 1,300 m thick. Annual precipitation in
30-416: The area is between 700 and 750mm and the average annual temperature is between 9.5 and 10.5 °C. The area benefits from a 'North Atlantic' climate with mild winters and a long growing season . 51°32′10″N 6°21′37″E / 51.53611°N 6.36028°E / 51.53611; 6.36028 Lower Rhine Bay The Lower Rhine Bay ( German : Niederrheinische Bucht ), sometimes called
36-634: The southwest is the Eifel . To the north, the loess strip forms the boundary with the Lower Rhine Plain . The surface of the landscape is flat or gently rolling and divided by tectonically -formed ridges and valleys that mainly run from southeast to northwest. Characteristic of the area is the blanket of loess west of the Rhine deposited by the prevailing westerly winds from the Meuse gravels and
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