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The river Lahn in Limburg. Limburg lies in western Hesse between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn.. The town lies roughly centrally in a basin within the Rhenish Slate Mountains which is surrounded by the low ranges of the Taunus and Westerwald and called the Limburg Basin (Limburger Becken).
The section of the Lahn below the town of Bad Laasphe is geographically known as the Upper Lahn Valley (German: Ober Lahntal). Above Bad Laasphe, where the river flows between the Rothaargebirge on the left (i.e. to the north) and the Gladenbach Uplands on the right, the Lahn Valley is simply considered part of these mountains.
Map of the Lahn river from its source in the Rothaargebirge to its mouth near Koblenz. The Lahngau was a medieval territory comprising the middle and lower Lahn River valley in the current German states of Hesse and (partially) Rhineland-Palatinate. The traditional names of the Gau are Loganahe Pagus or Pagus Logenensis.
The Westerwald is divided by elevation into these three regions: Unterer or Vorderer Westerwald, or Vorderwesterwald:; Translated here as Lower Westerwald, this region borders on the Rhine and Lahn river valley landscapes and manifests itself as the western and southwestern part of the Westerwald, a heavily truncated upland with elevations ranging from 200 to 400 m.
View of Villmar from the King Konrad Memorial. Villmar lies in the Lahn River valley between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some ten kilometres east of Limburg.In terms of the natural environment, the southwestern part of the municipal area comprises the eastern part of the Limburg Basin (this part known locally as the Villmar Bay or Villmarer Bucht), a nearly even two- to three-kilometre-wide ...
Dietkirchen an der Lahn is a borough of Limburg an der Lahn, seat of the district of Limburg-Weilburg in the state of Hesse, Germany. [2] The formerly independent village was incorporated into Limburg in 1971. The town is dominated by the basilica St. Lubentius, which was the most important early-medieval church building in the region.
Solms lies right in the Lahn valley at the mouth of the eponymous little river Solmsbach and is nestled between the foothills of both the Taunus and Westerwald at heights from 140 to 400 m above sea level. It is about 7 km west of Wetzlar and 30 km northeast of Limburg an der Lahn.
The Lahn Valley Railway is one of the few main routes in Germany largely not electrified, except for the short Eschhofen–Limburg (Lahn) section, part of the electrified Main-Lahn Railway, connecting Frankfurt Hbf and Limburg. Since many of the 18 tunnels and several overpassing bridges are too low, the electrification—planned in the 1970s ...