Middle Weser Valley

The Middle Weser valley is part of the Weser valley of the River Weser in the North German lowlands between the Porta Westfalica and the city Hoya. A real valley, it is not because it is limited on both sides in only two places by hills. It is located in the federal states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine -Westphalia.

Course

Where the Porta Westfalica between Wiehengebirge in the west and in the east Wesergebirge the actual Wesertal ends ( in the Weser mountain country), the so-called Middle Weser valley begins. Ten kilometers further north on the waterway crossing begins, by definition, the Middle Weser and flows in the North German lowlands by Peter Hagen and Nienburg. Conceptually, the Middle Weser valley ends at Hoya, where the middle Weser reached the Breslau -Magdeburg - Bremen glacial valley.

As a natural spatial unit represents the Middle Weser valley, which consists of floodplains and river terraces, a maximum 10 km wide strip of land on both sides of the Middle Weser dar. It transects Geest lowland, and the Middle Weser region is attributed. Of particular note are the nature reserves and Weseraue barrage Schlüsselburg

Political division

In North Rhine-Westphalian district of Minden -Lübbecke are Porta Westfalica, Minden and Peter Hagen in the Middle Weser Valley, in Lower Saxony Nienburg / Weser the individual and joint communities Mittelweser, Steyer Mountain, Liebenau, Nienburg / Weser, Marklohe, Heemsen, Eystrup and Hoya have at it share.