Germany: A Regional Geography

2/19/2024

This is an example of one of those rather dryly narrated documentaries that we might have seen at school. It divides the country of West Germany into three segments and uses the Rhine river as a conduit for much of our tour. The West and South is a major source of timber and home to Heidelberg University. Further upstream, the Mosel joins at Koblenz - famous for it's wines. The Rhine gorge is narrow but it carries a great deal of trade before hitting Bonn and then Cologne - itself an important intersection of trade routes and very close to the vast Ruhr coalfields and the industrial heartland of a country linked extensively by a network of canals. Next we head to the uplands in the North. The odd volcanic feature and reservoirs that feed hydro-electric power stations are all that's left o