Upper Rhine Plain
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben is a major rift, about 350-kilometre-long and on average 50-kilometre-wide, between Basel in the south and the cities of Frankfurt/Wiesbaden in the north.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Region
- Description: major rift valley in Germany
- Also known as: “Rhine graben”, “Rhine Rift Valley”, and “Upper Rhine Graben”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gare de Herrlisheim and Mittelgrund Helmlingen.
Gare de Herrlisheim
Railway station
Photo: Badener, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gare de Herrlisheim is a railway station.
Mittelgrund Helmlingen
Nature reserve
Photo: Doktorpixel14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mittelgrund Helmlingen is a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bischwiller and Lichtenau.
Bischwiller
Town
Photo: GDelhey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bischwiller is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France, just west of the river Moder.
Upper Rhine Plain
- Categories: lowland and locality
- Location: Gries, Arrondissement of Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.7234° or 48° 43′ 24″ northLongitude
7.9288° or 7° 55′ 44″ eastOpen location code
8FW9PWFH+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 9742100737OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q22964
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Upper Rhine Plain” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Верхнярэйнская нізіна”
- Bulgarian: “Горнорейнска долина”
- Bulgarian: “Горнорейнска низина”
- Bulgarian: “Горнорейнската долина”
- Catalan: “Plana del Rin”
- Chinese: “上莱茵河低地”
- Chinese: “上莱茵河谷”
- Chinese: “上萊茵河低地”
- Chinese: “上萊茵河谷”
- Chinese: “莱茵河上游平原”
- Chinese: “萊茵河上遊平原”
- Czech: “Hornorýnská nížina”
- Czech: “Hornorýnská rovina”
- Danish: “Rhingraven”
- Dutch: “Boven-Rijnse Laagvlakte”
- Dutch: “Bovenrijnse Laagvlakte”
- Dutch: “Rijndal”
- Esperanto: “Malaltebenaĵo de Supra Rejno”
- French: “Fosse rhenan”
- French: “Fossé rhénan”
- French: “graben du Rhin”
- French: “rift rhénan”
- German: “Oberrhein-Untermain-Senke”
- German: “Oberrheinebene”
- German: “Oberrheingraben”
- German: “Oberrheinische Tiefebene”
- German: “Oberrheinischer Tiefgraben”
- German: “Pfälzische Rheinebene”
- German: “Rheinebene”
- Hebrew: “מישור הריין העילי”
- Italian: “Bassopiano dell’alto Reno”
- Italian: “Bassopiano renano”
- Italian: “Fossa dell’alto Reno”
- Italian: “Fossa Renana”
- Japanese: “オーバーライン地溝帯”
- Japanese: “オーバーライン盆地”
- Japanese: “ライン地溝”
- Japanese: “ライン地溝帯”
- Japanese: “ライン平野”
- Japanese: “ライン盆地”
- Japanese: “上部ライン平野”
- Latvian: “Augšreinas zemiene”
- Lithuanian: “Reino aukštupio žemuma”
- Macedonian: “Горнорајнска Низина”
- Persian: “جلگه راین بالا”
- Persian: “دشت های راین بالا”
- Pfaelzisch: “Oberrhein”
- Pfaelzisch: “Oberrheinische Tiefebene”
- Pfaelzisch: “Rheinebene”
- Pfaelzisch: “Rhoiewene”
- Pfaelzisch: “Roiewene”
- Polish: “Nizina Górnoreńska”
- Polish: “Oberrheinische Tiefebene”
- Polish: “Oberrheinisches Tiefland”
- Portuguese: “Planalto Superior do Reno”
- Russian: “Верхнерейнская низменность”
- Slovenian: “Oberrheinische Tiefebene”
- Slovenian: “Renski jarek”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja dolina Rena”
- Slovenian: “Zgornjerenski jarek”
- Slovenian: “Zgornjerensko nižavje”
- Spanish: “Fosa Renana”
- Swiss German: “Oberrheingraben”
- Swiss German: “Oberrhinischi Diafebeni”
- Swiss German: “Rheinebene”
- Tosk Albanian: “Oberrheinische Tiefebene”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Ren Ovası”
- Ukrainian: “Верхньорейнська долина”
- Ukrainian: “Верхньорейнська рівнина”
- Ukrainian: “Верхньорейнський грабен”
- Ukrainian: “Рейнський грабен”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gring and Gringe Koepfle.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Marina 313 (Port O ‘ Rhin) and Stade du Rhin.
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