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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).
Here the river is joined by two tributaries, the Emsbach coming from the Taunus and the Elbbach from the Westerwald. In this area are frequent outcroppings of Devonian limestone, the so-called Lahn Marble (German: Lahnmarmor), such as at Limburg an der Lahn, where the Limburg Cathedral crowns such an outcropping. At Limburg, the river again ...
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Lahn-Dill , Hochtaunuskreis , Rheingau-Taunus , Rhein-Lahn , Westerwaldkreis . History
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 ...
Selters is a village in the district Limburg-Weilburg, Hesse, Germany. It is situated at the Taunus side of the river Lahn and belongs to the municipality Löhnberg. The village has a total population of 319. [1] The village is famous for its natural springs of carbonated mineral water, which is sold as Selters water. [2] [3]
The town is linked to the long-distance road network through the Limburg-Süd interchange on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), 7 km away. Runkel station and Arfurt (Lahn) station both lie within the municipality on the Lahntal railway (Koblenz-Limburg-Runkel-Wetzlar-Gießen) at which only regional trains stop.