The Süder Uplands''Siedlungsforschung: Archäologie, Geschichte, Geographie, Volumes 15-16''
(1997) by Verlag Siedlungsforschung, p. 47, Retrieved 15 May 2014. (, sometimes ''Südergebirge'' i.e. Süder Hills), form a major natural region (no. 33 or D38) of the

Rhenish Massif The Rhenish Massif, Rhine Massif or Rhenish Uplands (, : 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France. It is drained centrally, south to north by the river Rhine and a few ...

in the German states of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

and northwestern

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

. They correspond roughly to the historic regions of the

Sauerland The Sauerland () is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of the States of Germany, German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart from the major valleys, sparsely inhabited. ...

Bergisches Land The Bergisches Land (, ) is a low mountain range in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, east of the Rhine and south of the Ruhr. The landscape is shaped by forests, meadows, rivers and creeks and contains over twenty artificial lakes ...

Siegerland The Siegerland is a region of Germany covering the old district of Siegen (now part of the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia) and the upper part of the district of Altenkirchen, belonging to the Rhineland-Palatinate adjoin ...

and Wittgenstein Land in NRW as well as the Upland and the extreme northwest of the

Hinterland Hinterland is a German word meaning the 'land behind' a city, a port, or similar. Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his ''Handbook of Commercial Geography'' (1888). Originally the term was associated wi ...

in Hesse.

Mountain and hill ranges

The uplands include several mountain and hill ranges that are commonly referred to as the Sauerland: *

Rothaar Mountains The Rothaar Mountains (, , also ''Rotlagergebirge''), or Rothaar, is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 843.1 m in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany. It is believed that its name must once have been ''Rod-Hard-Gebirge'', ...

(''Langenberg'', 843 m) * Saalhausen Hills (''Himberg'', 688 m) * Ebbe Mountains (''Nordhelle'', 663 m) * Lenne Mountains (''Homert'', 656 m) * Plackwald (582 m) In listing these ranges the

with its 519 m high peak of ''Homert (Oberbergischer Kreis)'' is often counted. However these are foothills of the Ebbe Mountains, whilst the historic Bergisches Land lies on the slopes of the Süder Uplands as they gradually descend to the Rhine. In a similar way the highest elevations of the historic Siegerland (such as the 678 m high ''Riemen'') are not in the natural region of ''Siegerland'' (see major landscape units), but in the Rothaar Mountains. And the 633-metre-high ''Alte Burg'' lies geographically in the Siegerland, but is not the highest elevation of an independent ridge. Rather, it is part of the Siegerland Rothaar Foothills (''Siegerländer Rothaar-Vorhöhen''), which form the western slopes of the Rothaar Mountains. The Hessian Upland in turn is part of the Rothaar Mountains forming the eastern edge of the range.

References

External links

Bundesamt für Naturschutz – Landscape fact file for all parts of the Süder Uplands (33***)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suder Uplands Central Uplands Mountain ranges of North Rhine-Westphalia Mountain ranges of Hesse

Mountain and hill ranges

See also

References

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