Ellensian forest

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Ellensian forest
North-east side of the Ellenser Forest

North-east side of the Ellenser Forest

Highest peak Scharfenberg ( 342  m above sea  level )
location at Dassel ; District Northeim , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Lower Saxony highlands Weser-Leine-Bergland ;
Leinebergland
Coordinates 51 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 43'  E
rock limestone
Age of the rock Shell limestone
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The Ellenser Forest is a smaller area, up to 342  m above sea level. NN high ridge of the Leinebergland . It is located near Dassel in the district of Northeim in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

geography

location

The Ellenser Forest is located in the Leinebergland northeast of the Solling on the Einbeck-Markoldendorfer basin . The ridge is located southeast of Dassel between Krimmensen and Ellensen in the north, Hoppensen in the east, Lauenberg in the southeast, Hilwartshausen in the south and Relliehausen in the southwest. A little to the north-west of the Ellenser Forest are the Amtsberge mountains , which are located on the other side of the Ilme valley, to the southwest of the Ahlsburg ridge , from which the Ellenser Forest is only separated by the Dieße Valley .

Natural allocation

The Ellenser forest belongs - together with the northwest lying Official mountains and located beyond ridge wood mountain in the southeast - in the natural environment feature unit group Weser Tether mountains , in the main unit (no. 37) Solling foreshore (371) and in the sub unit Northern Solling Foreland (371.0) to the nature area Amtsberge (371.04). The landscape leads north-east into the sub-unit Einbeck-Markoldendorfer Becken (372.0), which belongs to the main unit Leine-Ilme-Senke (372) ; in the south-east the southern Solling-Vorland main unit (371.1) is followed by the natural area Ahlsburg (371.12) and in the south-west the sub-unit Nördlicher Solling (370.0), which belongs to the main unit Solling, Bramwald and Reinhardswald (370 ).

Surveys

The surveys of the Ellenser Wald include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NN) or normal height zero (NHN):

  • Scharfenberg (approx. 342.0 m)
  • Great shark (approx. 310 m)
  • Sprengelberg (approx. 310 m)
  • Kerlsberg (approx. 305 m)
  • Burgberg (306.0 m)
  • Rohberg (approx. 300 m)
  • Grubenberg (298.7 m)

Vegetation and protected area

The high and steep locations of the Ellenser Forest are today covered with acidic beech forest. A comparison with the Kurhannoverschen and the Prussian New Admissions revealed that these deciduous forest areas have essentially existed in the same form for more than two centuries. The areas at the foot of the mountain are used for agriculture.

Parts of the Fauna-Flora-Habitat- Area Ilme extend to the north-west and east foot (FFH-Nr. 4124-302; 7.0578 km²).

References and comments

  1. a b c d Hiking and Leisure in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park , Topographical Map (1: 50,000; 1975),
    Ed .: Lower Saxony State Administration Office - State Surveying
  2. ^ Jürgen Hövermann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  3. a b c d e f g Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  4. To the west of the summit region of the Scharfenberg lies the Geldloch cave
  5. ^ Map of forest area development 1780 - 1900 - 1990 (Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute, Lower Saxony Forest Planning Office), in: Indicators of sustainable forestry, report on the German sub-project , 2002