Leinebergland
The Leinebergland is a low mountain range in the Lower Saxon mountainous region along the Leine between Göttingen and Hanover . It borders in the west on the Weserbergland , in the northeast on the Innerstebergland , in the east on the Harz and in the southeast on the Untereichsfeld .
geography
The Leinebergland, which covers the Weserbergland to the east and the Harz to the west, is not a landscape that is strictly defined according to natural spatial aspects, but follows a relatively simple structure. Its course is mainly based on that of the eponymous river from south to north and the mountain ranges immediately adjacent to the west and east.
In a north-south direction, the mountainous region can be roughly divided into the southern part on the middle course, which is characterized by the very wide Leinegraben, and the northern part on the lower course of the river.
Landscapes on both sides of the Leinegraben
From Friedland via Göttingen and Northeim to Einbeck, the Leine flows through the Leinegraben ( Leine- Ilme -enke ), an important north-south oriented geological trench structure . On the heights of the mountains along the Leinetal there are many castles that controlled and were able to block the north-south road connection in the valley during the Middle Ages.
In the south-east of the Leinebergland, to the right of the ditch, the plateau of the Göttingen-Northeim Forest , characterized by red sandstone and shell limestone , extends from Friedland via Göttingen and Nörten-Hardenberg to Northeim . Here is the largest group of Abris in Central Europe. They can often be found in a confined space in the ravine-like rocky valleys between the Leine and the Eichsfeld. In an area of around 30 km in length and six to ten kilometers in width, around 1,600 demolitions have been recorded today. The forest (mostly beech forests ) is heavily used for forestry.
This landscape goes north into the largely wooded layered and broken clod landscape of the southwestern Harz foreland , in which, in addition to red sandstone and shell limestone, there are also Jurassic limestone . Directly north of Einbeck achieved with the strokes of the southwestern Harz mountains and the left side of a line streamers and "locked" to the line trench to the north.
To the left of the ditch, the two last-mentioned landscapes are faced with the agriculturally intensively used Solling foreland .
The extreme east of the southwestern Harz foreland and the extreme northwest of the Solling foreland around the Vogler are not commonly included in the Leinebergland .
The Alfelder Bergland
After the Leinegraben has closed and the Hube has flown around on the right, the river crosses the Alfelder Bergland ( Ith-Hils-Bergland ), which is characterized by the close succession of mountain ranges and valleys running parallel in a north-west-south-east direction .
East of the name-giving massifs of Ith and Hils , which are up to 480 m high, the mountain ranges on both sides of the Leine drop steeply towards the river valley and are divided by various tributaries. Beech forests dominate the higher altitudes , while the depressions are used for arable farming.
Large parts of the landscape are protected . In addition to the mesophilic beech and ravine forests, in the mountain ranges to the right of the Leine there are in particular dry limestone slope forests, dry grassland, dry bushes and mesophilic grassland that are worth protecting.
At Gronau the Leine finally leaves the Leinebergland and at the same time the low mountain range threshold into which the funnel-shaped valley of the Calenberger Loessbörde opens up to the North German lowlands , which joins the Calenberger Bergland to the west and the Innerstebergland with the Hildesheim Forest to the east .
Natural spatial main units
The landscapes of the Leinebergland are assigned to the following main units, with the digits without D corresponding to the old breakdown into main unit groups (two-digit) and main units (three-digit), while the new main unit group D 36 contains two more old groups.
- D 36 Lower Saxony mountains
- 37 Weser-Leine-Bergland
- 377 Alfelder Bergland ( Ith-Hils-Bergland )
- 371 Sollingvorland (without the extreme northwest with the Vogler )
- 372 Leine-Ilme-Senke
- 376 Southwestern Harz foreland (excluding the extreme east)
- 373 Göttingen-Northeim Forest
- 37 Weser-Leine-Bergland
Ridges
The following mountain ranges are included in the Leinebergland (roughly from north to south ):
Surname | Height above NN | Landscape part |
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Little Deister | 345.7 m | Calenberger Bergland (l) |
Nesselberg | 378.2 m | Calenberger Bergland (l) |
Osterwald | 419.2 m | Calenberger Bergland (l) |
Ith | 439 m | Alfelder Bergland (l) |
Thüster mountain | 441 m | Alfelder Bergland (l) |
Külf | 260 m | Alfelder Bergland (l) |
Seven mountains | 395 m | Alfelder Bergland (r) |
Foothills | 353.0 m | Alfelder Bergland (r) |
Duinger Berg | 330 m | Alfelder Bergland (l) |
Sackwald | 374 m | Alfelder Bergland (r) |
Hils | 480.4 m | Alfelder Bergland (l) |
Seldom | 395.0 m | Alfelder Bergland (l) |
Helleberg | 297.5 m | Alfelder Bergland (r) |
Elfas | 409.6 m | Solling foreland (l) |
Hube | 346.2 m | Southwest Harz foreland (l) |
Lifter | 314 m | Innerstebergland (r) |
Ahlsburg | 411.4 m | Solling foreland (l) |
Official Mountains | 392.2 m | Solling foreland (l) |
Holzberg | 444.5 m | Solling foreland (l) |
Weper | 379 m | Solling foreland (l) |
Lumber houses forest | 323.3 m | Southwest Harz foreland (r) |
Edesheim Forest | 270 m | Southwest Harz foreland (r) |
Göttingen Forest | 427.5 m | Göttingen-Northeimer Wald (r) |
Pure houses forest | 437 m | Göttingen-Northeimer Wald (r) |
Wieter | 358.4 m | Göttingen-Northeimer Wald (r) |
Cities
Cities in the Leinetal (from north to south): |
other cities in the Leinebergland: |
See also
literature
- Horst Vesterling: The Leinebergland. Landscape - culture - leisure. PDV-Sachbuchverlag, Hanover 1986, ISBN 3-925490-02-7 .
- Gerhard Kraus: Around the seven mountains. A historical leisure guide through the Leinebergland. Harenberg, Hannover 1983, ISBN 3-89042-007-9 .
- Heinz Jordan: Geological hiking map Leinebergland. Scale 1: 100,000. Leinebergland tourist office, Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research (publisher), Hanover 1979.
- Leinebergland tourist office (publisher): Leinebergland. History, landscape, leisure. Leinebergland tourist office, Alfeld (Leine) 1976.
- Arthur Rühl: The southern Leinebergland. A forest, vegetation and plant geographical study. Plant Sociology Volume 9. Verlag G. Fischer, Jena 1954.
- Federal Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Research: Geographical regional survey 1: 200,000. Natural division of Germany. The natural space units on sheet 86 Hanover. Bad Godesberg 1960
- Federal Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Research: Geographical regional survey 1: 200,000. Natural division of Germany. The natural space units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Bad Godesberg 1963
- Dietrich Flieder: Regional studies of Lower Saxony. Paul List Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-471-18876-2 , p. 284 ff.
Web links
- Tourism in the Leinebergland from Pro Leinebergland e. V.
- Landscape profiles from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ' N , 9 ° 49' E