Siegerland

Japanese: Siegerland
Siegerland

…Sauerland is a mountainous region between the Sieg River in the south and the Ruhr and Möhne Rivers in the north. It is not suitable for agriculture, so mining and industry developed there early on. The development of the iron processing industry, which smelted and processed iron ore from Siegerland using abundant forest and hydraulic resources, made the Mark in the western part of the Sauerland the most industrialized region of Brandenburg-Prussia from the mid-17th century onwards, and it also became the starting point of the rapid heavy industrialization of the Ruhr region in the 19th century. In the Hellweglandshaft, between the Haar Hills and the Lippe River, the cities of Dortmund, Soest, and Paderborn flourished along the ancient road Hellweg, but this region is covered with the most fertile loess layer in Westphalia and formed a grain-growing region. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Siegerland" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…ザウアーラントは南はジーク川,北はルール川,メーネMöhne川に挟まれる山地で,農耕には適さず,鉱工業が早くから発達した。ジーガーラントSiegerlandに産出する鉄鉱石を,豊富な森林・水力資源を利用して製錬・加工する鉄加工業の発達により,ザウアーラント西部のマルクは,17世紀中葉以降ブランデンブルク・プロイセンの中で最も工業化された地域となり,また19世紀ルール地域の急激な重工業化の起点ともなった。ハール丘陵地帯とリッペ川に挟まれるヘルウェークラントシャフトでは,古来からの交通路ヘルウェークHellweg沿いにドルトムント,ゾースト,パーダーボルンの諸都市が栄えたが,この地域はウェストファーレンで最も肥沃な黄土層におおわれ,穀作地帯を形成した。…

※「Siegerland」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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