Bröhn
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 View from the Wennigser Mark between the villages of Wennigsen and Wennigser Mark southwest towards the Bröhn |
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| height | 405 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at jump ; Lower Saxony , Region Hannover ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Deister | |
| Dominance | 10.8 km → Hohe Egge | |
| Notch height | 264 m | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 14 '48 " N , 9 ° 30' 32" E | |
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| particularities | - highest mountain in the Deister - Annaturm ( AT ) with restaurant |
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The Bröhn is about 405 m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain of the Deister . It lies on the border between the town of Springe and the municipality of Wennigsen in the Hanover region of Lower Saxony .
It owes its name to the broom growing here , which was previously called Bröm or Bram . The Annaturm with the forest restaurant Annaturm stands on the summit . The Wennigs water wheels are located about 1.5 km northeast of it .
geography
location
The Bröhn is located to the east of the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln nature park . Its summit rises a little southeast of the center of the Deister on the border of the city of Springe , whose core town is around 5.3 km south-southeast, to the municipality of Wennigsen , whose core town is around 5.5 km (as the crow flies ) northeast. The north-western neighbor elevation along the Deister main ridge is the Höfeler (approx. 395 m ) with the Hohe Warte (approx. 379 m ) a little further to the north-west, and the south-eastern neighbors along this ridge are the Hirschköpfe (approx. 400 m ).
Natural allocation
The Bröhn belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Calenberger Bergland (378) and in the subunit South-Hannoversche Berge (378.3) to the natural areas Barsinghausener Deister (378.30; northeast) and Nienstedter Deister (378.31; southwest).
Mountain height
The summit of the Bröhn is in the area of the town of Springe am Annaturm . With a height of 405 m , the Bröhn is the highest mountain of the Deister and the northernmost four hundred meter of the central European mainland (excluding the European islands and peninsulas, such as Fennoscandinavia ), between the Atlantic and Urals . All mountains that are located in Germany at a more northerly degree of latitude are lower than the Bröhn. A few meters northwest of the mountain peak, a 402.6 m high point is shown on topographic maps .
Protected areas
On the northern flank of the Bröhn are parts of the Norddeister landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 323262; designated 1994; 55.99 km² ) and on its southern flank those of the LSG Süddeister (CDDA no. 324904; 1967; 33.79 km²). To the southwest of the Deisterkammlinie are parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Süntel, Wesergebirge, Deister (FFH no. 3720-301; 24.97 km²) on the Bröhn .
Annaturm
On the summit of the Bröhn stands the Annaturm , built in 1982 , a 28 m high observation and directional radio tower made of reinforced concrete . It is now the fifth successor to the original surveying tower, which was built on this site until 1834 at the instigation of Professor Carl Friedrich Gauß . From the tower's viewing platform, the panoramic view falls over the Deister , to Hildesheim and Hanover , to the Steinhuder Meer , the Weser Uplands and, on a clear day, to the Brocken in the Harz Mountains .
The Annaturm forest restaurant is located next to the Annaturm .
Plane crash
About 300 meters east of the Bröhngipfel crashed in September 1958 at 11 am, a jet fighter type Republic F-84 of the Danish Air Force from. The machine brushed several tree tops over a distance of 500 m and then exploded. The 24-year-old pilot Jörgensen was killed. He had started with his squadron in Copenhagen and had the Upjever air base as his destination . He lost his orientation in the fog and gave the last position report at an altitude of 250 m above Stadthagen .
Traffic and walking
A little northwest past the Bröhn, the state road 401 leads over the Deister between Egestorf in the northeast and Nienstedt in the southwest . The Bröhn summit with the Annaturm can be reached, for example, from the parking lot at the Nienstedter Pass ( 276.6 m ), which is 3.1 km northwest on the L 401, and from the one at the Forsthaus Köllnischfeld ( 315 m ), which is 1.4 km southeast. Forest paths and paths lead from both parking lots to the mountain summit, over which the European long-distance hiking trail E1 runs along the Deister main ridge with the ridge path.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Deister-Leine-Zeitung : Article 50 years ago , from September 24, 2008