Alzey Hills

The Alzeyer hill country is a 275 km ² large hill landscape in Rheinhessen Rheinland- Pfalz, Germany. Geographically, it is counted as Upper Rhine country and forms the main unit 227

Geography

The Alzeyer hill country, which is in the northern part of the Upper Rhine Valley, located in the eastern part of Rhineland- Palatinate in the Alzey - Worms and the Thunder Mountain district. It joins south of the Rheinhessen hills or east to the Palatinate mountains to the east and extends into the Wonnegau.

The hills, whose eponymous village is located in its northern part Alzey, extends approximately between Woerrstadt in the north, Alsheim in the Northeast, West Mayrhofen and Monsheim in the east, Green City in the southeast, Wattenheim in the south, Eisenberg in the southwest and Kirchheimbolanden in the West.

Landscape

The Alzeyer hill country that is located on loess, lime and marl soils is predominantly agricultural. It is in some places (especially on the southern slopes of the hills ) winegrowing and in many places (especially in the southern part of the Alzeyer Hillsbrad ) agronomically used cultural landscape, as the foothills of the Palatine Uplands large differences in height than the north then Rheinhessen hills. In the West, and thus in the transition region to the Palatinate mountains hills the land is partly wooded.

Among the hills of Alzeyer hill country which. West-east direction from heights of over 300 m above sea NN to approximately 120 m above sea level. NN drops ( at Westhofen ), belong to the ruler ( 300.3 m; between Immesheim and Rüssingen ) with the Saukopf ( 296.4 m; during Immesheim ), the Kahlenberg (305 m; during Kindenheim ) and the ridge Gerstenberg with the Quirnheimer Berg ( 316.6 m; during Quirnheim ). Bathed it is from the headwaters of the Selz and Seebach and middle reaches of the sections Pfrimm and Eisbach.

Transport links

Is crossed Alzeyer the hill country of sections of motorways 61 ( southwest-northeast direction) and 63 ( northwest-southeast direction), it is tangent to the southern edge of such a A 6 ( west-east direction). Of these highways there are connections to leading through the countryside sections of highways 47 and 271

The Railroads in Alzey hills composed of one section of Alzey Kirchheimbolanden connecting thunder mountain railway, leading along the Pfrimm Zellertalstraße track and the running at Rein Eistalbahn.

49.6833333333338.15Koordinaten: 49 ° 41 '0 " N, 8 ° 9' 0" E

  • Landscape in Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Rheinhessen
  • Alzey
  • Natural area in the Upper Rhine Lowland
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