Lower Rhine (region) - Niederrhein (Region)

The region Lower Rhine located in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Regions

This entry understands the Niederrhein region in a broader sense: in addition to the Kleve, Wesel and Viersen districts represented by the Niederrhein Tourismus company, the areas around Krefeld and Mönchengladbach as well as Heinsberg and Geilenkirchen as well as the Düsseldorf area (which has its own article as a sub-region). The exception is Duisburg, which actually also belongs to the Lower Rhine, but has a stronger connection to it Ruhr area and is therefore classified there. Only in the districts of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine do you clearly feel that you belong to the Lower Rhine region.

The Dutch provinces border in the west Limburg and Gelderland at. In many cases, the areas on both sides of the border are perceived as a single landscape.

places

Bigger cities

• Dusseldorf - State capital, shopping paradise and air traffic hub
• Krefeld - formerly a textile metropolis, today an industrial city in transition
• Moers - former county, right on the threshold of a big city
• Mönchengladbach - on the southern Lower Rhine
• Neuss - more than 2,000 years old city on the western bank of the Rhine

More places

Erkelenz, Juchen and Grevenbroich still belong to the Lower Rhine region, but also to the neighboring region to the south Jülich Börde. Dormagen is at the transition from the Lower Rhine to Cologne-Bonn region; Duisburg at the transition to Ruhr area.

Other goals

background

language

Traditionally, Lower Franconian dialects were spoken on the Lower Rhine. Today it is often called a Regiolekt Lower Rhine German spoken.^[1]

getting there

By plane

The largest airport in the region is the international one Dusseldorf Airport (DUS), one of the airports with the largest number of passengers in Germany with numerous connections within and outside Europe. The airport has its own S-Bahn station as well as a long-distance and regional train station, which is connected to the terminal by the "Skytrain" (suspension railway). So you can quickly reach other cities on the Lower Rhine, z. B. Neuss in 30 minutes, Moers in 45 minutes, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach or Wesel in 55 minutes.

The Niederrhein Airport (NRN) offers intra-European connections, especially with Ryanair. It is located right on the border with the Netherlands southwest of the village Weeze. The airport is made up of buses Kevelaer (73 airline), Weeze (SW1) and Goch (SL17, advance booking required). The next train stop is Weeze, 5 km away. There are also various providers of shuttle and transfer trips.

The airports are also less than 100 km away Cologne-Bonn (55 km south of Düsseldorf), Dortmund (80 km east of Moers), Maastricht (40 km southwest of Heinsberg) and Eindhoven (90 km west of Kleve or Viersen).

By train

Long-distance trains stop in Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Krefeld, Viersen, Mönchengladbach, Rheydt and Geilenkirchen. There are also numerous regional express connections to the Lower Rhine from the other regions of North Rhine-Westphalia (see under #Mobility).

In the street

Like other parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Lower Rhine is accessible by numerous motorways (including A3, A40, A52, A57, A61) and trunk roads.

mobility

By train

• RE 4: Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Geilenkirchen – Herzogenrath – Aachen
• RE 5: (Koblenz–) Bonn – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Oberhausen – Wesel – Emmerich
• RE 7: Rheine – Münster – Hamm – Unna – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – Cologne – Neuss – Krefeld
• RE 8: Koblenz – Troisdorf – Cologne – Grevenbroich – Rheydt – Mönchengladbach
• RE 10: Düsseldorf – Neuss – Krefeld – Kleve
• RE 11: Hamm – Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Mülheim (Ruhr) –Duisburg – Krefeld – Viersen – Mönchengladbach
• RE 13: Hamm-Unna-Hagen-Wuppertal-Neuss-Mönchengladbach-Viersen-Kaldenkirchen-Venlo

• RB 31: Xanten – Moers – Duisburg
• RB 32: Wesel – Bocholt
• RB 33: Wesel – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Krefeld – Viersen – Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Heinsberg
• RB 34: Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Dalheim
• RB 35: Emmerich – Wesel – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf
• RB 38: Cologne-Horrem-Bergheim-Bedburg
• RB 39: Bedburg – Grevenbroich – Neuss – Düsseldorf

• S 8: Hagen – Wuppertal – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Mönchengladbach

Tourist Attractions

Wikibooks has a book Small guide to castles, palaces and knight seats: between Kleve and Hünxe.

• (Maas-) Schwalm-Nette nature park - cross-border nature park with the Netherlands
  • Sequoia farm in Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen on the German-Dutch border, first systematic cultivation of sequoias in Europe
• Bedburg-Hau: Moyland Castle - the romantic moated castle comes pretty close to the image that many have of a fairytale castle; The appearance of the facade does not originate from the Middle Ages, however, but was only redesigned in the middle of the 19th century for an owner obviously enthusiastic about the Middle Ages; But that doesn't detract from the attraction of the facility
• Düsseldorf: Benrath Castle
• Kleve: Historic parks and gardens - from 1647 a large baroque garden laid out for the Prince of Nassau-Siegen, later used as a spa park and supplemented by various splendid spa buildings
• Krefeld: Museum Center Burg Linn, consisting of the moated castle with an exhibition on medieval history, a baroque hunting lodge with historically furnished citizens' rooms and an archaeological museum
• Neuss: Museum Insel Hombroich - actually not an island, but a park behind a classicist factory owner's villa, which forms an oasis for culture and nature, collection of classic and above all modern art, especially sculptures
• Xanten: Archaeological Park

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  Sequoia farm Kaldenkirchen

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  Moyland Castle

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  Benrath Castle

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  Park in Kleve

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  Linn Castle with the neighboring hunting lodge

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  Sculptures in the Museum Insel Hombroich

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  Xanten Archaeological Park

activities

• The Lower Rhine Carnival is known throughout Europe, in addition to the "flagship" Cologne Carnival there are also active carnival clubs and large parades in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Mönchengladbach, Neuss, Viersen or Wesel.
• Dusseldorf: Capitol Theater (Musical theater), Playhouse
• German Opera on the Rhine, Venues in Düsseldorf and Duisburg

kitchen

Information about the kitchen can also be found on the website Eating and drinking in the Rhineland.

nightlife

security

climate

literature

• Birgit Gerlach, Niederrhein - Excursions to the most beautiful palaces and castles, Düsseldorf 2013, Droste Verlag, ISBN 3-7700-1481-2

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