Backenberg

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Backenberg
View from a field path near Löwenhagen northeast to the Backenberg near Güntersen

View from a field path near Löwenhagen northeast
to the Backenberg near Güntersen

height 341  m above sea level NHN
location at Güntersen ; District of Göttingen Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Weser-Leine-Bergland
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '6 "  N , 9 ° 43' 20"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '6 "  N , 9 ° 43' 20"  E
Backenberg (Lower Saxony)
Backenberg

The Backenberg is 341  m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Weser-Leine-Bergland near Güntersen in the southern Lower Saxony district of Göttingen .

View from Backenberg over Güntersen eastwards to Ossenberg

geography

location

The Backenberg rises in the Münden Nature Park . Its summit is 2.2 km south-southeast of Eberhausen and 1 km west of Güntersen , two districts of Adelebsen , and 1.5 km north of Imbsen and 2 km northeast of Löwenhagen , two districts of Niemetal .

The Lamfertbach flows north past the wooded mountain as a tributary of the Auschnippe to the east and past the Nieme, which is fed by the creek from the Kohlenberg to the west, as a tributary of the Weser .

Natural allocation

The Backenberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Sollingvorland (371) and in the subunit southern Solling-Vorland (371.1) to the natural area Schedener Rötsenke (371.11).

History and mining

Mining used to be carried out on the Backenberg ; A lake has formed in an abandoned open- cast mine . In Backenberg there are nepheline and chrysotile deposits.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Topographic map 1: 50,000, sheet L4524 Göttingen , Lower Saxony state administration office, state surveying, Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-89435-542-5