Lower Rhine Heights

#1842 among destinations in Germany

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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The Lower Rhine Heights is a hill ridge which, with several interruptions, stretches in a broad arc through the Lower Rhine Plain from Krefeld to Nijmegen, between the valley of the Rhine in the east and that of the Niers in the west. This landform element is also called the Lower Rhine Hill Ridge. ()

Local name: Niederrheinischer Höhenzug Coordinates: 51°39'19"N, 6°21'8"E

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North Rhine-WestphaliaGermany

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Lower Rhine Heights – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: LVR-Archäologischer Park Xanten, Lower Germanic Limes, Xanten Cathedral, Kriemhildmühle.

4 miE
Amusement, Amusement park
LVR-Archäologischer Park Xanten, Xanten
102 min walk • The Xanten Archaeological Park is an open-air museum near Xanten on the Lower Rhine. The sponsor is the Landschaftsverband Rheinland, which decided to found the park in 1973. It was opened in 1977 and has been repeatedly expanded since then.
4.4 miE
Archaeological site
Lower Germanic Limes, Xanten
112 min walk • The Lower Germanic Limes is the former frontier between the Roman province of Germania inferior and Germania Magna. The Lower Germanic Limes separated that part of the Rhineland left of the Rhine as well as the Netherlands, which was part of the Roman Empire, from the less tightly controlled regions east of the Rhine.
4.4 miE
Church, Gothic architecture
Xanten Cathedral, Xanten
113 min walk • Xanten Cathedral, sometimes called St. Victor's Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church situated in Xanten, a historic town in the lower Rhine area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is considered the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the sea. In 1936 it was declared a minor basilica by Pope Pius XI.
4.3 miE
Windmill
Kriemhildmühle, Xanten
109 min walk • The Kriemhildmühle is a historic windmill in Xanten and the only mill of the Lower Rhine, which is operated daily.
3.2 miN
Church
St. Mariä Himmelfahrt
83 min walk • Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a pilgrimage church in Marienbaum, near Xanten. It was built as a monastery church, founded in 1460 Brygida monastery in Marienbaum. From 1802 he was secularization to the parish...
3.4 miS
51°36'32"N • 6°22'31"E
St. Maria-Magdalena, Sonsbeck
86 min walk • Church