Lower Rhine Heights
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Africa Museum and Radboudumc.
Africa Museum
Museum
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The Africa Museum was a museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands. The museum on the outskirts of the city of Nijmegen was a complex with indoor as well as open-air display areas, covering art, culture, music, photographs, videos and architecture of Africa.
Radboudumc
Hospital
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The Radboud University Medical Center, is the teaching hospital affiliated with the Radboud University, in the city of Nijmegen in the eastern-central part of the Netherlands.
Museum Het Valkhof
Museum
Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Valkhof Museum is an archaeology and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The museum has existed since 1999, created as a merger between the G. M. Kam museum of archaeology and the Commanderie van St.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nijmegen and Ubbergen.
Nijmegen
Photo: Szilas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nijmegen lays claims to the title of oldest city in the Netherlands, and has indeed a long history and still lots of interesting heritage to enjoy today.
Ubbergen
Village
Photo: Arjandb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Ubbergen is a village and former municipality in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. On 1 January 2015 it merged into the enlarged municipality of Groesbeek, renamed Berg en Dal from 1 January 2016.
Lent
Village
Lent is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Nijmegen, about 2 km north of that city, on the north bank of the Waal river.
Lower Rhine Heights
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 82 metres
- Also known as: “Zonnenheuvel”
- Categories: push moraine and landform
- Location: Berg en Dal Municipality, Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.8285° or 51° 49′ 43″ northLongitude
5.9055° or 5° 54′ 20″ eastElevation
82 metres (269 feet)Open location code
9F37RWH4+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 8768946110OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q1749655
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Western Frisian—“Lower Rhine Heights” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Nederrijnse heuvelrug”
- Dutch: “Nederrijnse Heuvelrug”
- German: “Niederrheinischer Höhenzug”
- Limburgan: “Nederriense Heuvelrögk”
- Limburgan: “Nederriense Huëvelruk”
- Western Frisian: “Nederrynske Heuvelrêch”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Berg en Dal and Kwakkenberg.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stollenberg and Boterberg.
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