Walk (ridge)

The highest peaks of the Gehns are over 100  m high

The Gehn is a small mountain range between Bramsche and Ueffeln , and belongs to the Osnabrück hill country . The ridge runs from northwest to southeast and is about five kilometers long and an average of two kilometers wide. The highest point is 112  m above sea level. NHN high Gehnberg. The Gehn forms the connection between the Wiehengebirge and the Ankumer Höhe . The Gehn is predominantly forested and is not - like the Ankumer Höhe - part of a glacial terminal moraine series from the earliest glaciation of the Saale Ice Age , the so-called Drenthe I stage, but a ridge built from rocks from the Jurassic period , which in the course of the unfolding at the end of the Cretaceous was bulged.

Heath on Gehn

Like the Wiehengebirge and the Ankumer Höhe, the Gehn is part of the TERRA.vita nature and geopark . It is enclosed in a clockwise direction by the towns of Bramsche , Grünegras , Neuenkirchen , Ueffeln and Hesepe .

Surveys

The elevations of the walk include:

• Gehnberg ( 112  m )
• Kettelsberg ( 108  m above sea  level )
• Heseper Berg ( 107.9  m )
• Frettberg ( 105.9  m )

literature

• Werner Dobelmann , Die Gehnmark im Kirchspiel Neuenkirchen , in: Am heimatlichen Herd - Heimatblatt 8 (1957), No. 9 (August 1957), pp. 33f.

Web links

Commons : Gehn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• F. Bailly, P. Felix-Henningsen, H. Klassen, S. Stephan: Synsedimentary paleo-vertisoles in the Upper Jurassic of the western Wiehen Mountains (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Various authors: Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural spatial units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps
   • Sheet 83/84: Osnabrück / Bentheim (Sofie Meisel 1961; 66 pages) → map (PDF, 6.6 MB)
   • Sheet 85: Minden (Sofie Meisel 1959; 50 p. - only 535.03) → map (PDF, 4.6 MB)
2. ↑ Geographic base data viewer Lower Saxony of the LGLN

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E