Hofgeismar city forest
| Hofgeismar city forest | ||
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 View from Grebenstein through the Hofgeismarer Rötsenke |
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| Highest peak | Heuberg ( 392 m above sea level ) | |
| location | at Hofgeismar ; District of Kassel , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| part of | Lower Saxony mountain region | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 ' N , 9 ° 21' E | |
The Hofgeismar city forest is a forest and a maximum of 392 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the Lower Saxon mountainous region . It is located in the Hessian district of Kassel, particularly in the urban area of Hofgeismar and with foothills in the urban areas of Liebenau and Trendelburg .
geography
location
The mountainous and wooded Hofgeismar city forest lies between Eberschütz (zu Trendelburg ) in the north, Hümme (zu Hofgeismar) in the northeast, the Hofgeismar core city in the southeast, Friedrichsdorf (zu Hofgeismar) in the south-southwest, Ostheim (zu Liebenau ) in the southwest and Lamerden (zu Liebenau) ) in the north-west.
To the west and northwest the Diemel flows past the ridge, to the east the Esse ; A little to the east, beyond the Essetal, rises the Schöneberg ( 323.2 m ) with the Schöneberg castle ruins . In its northeastern foothills lies the steeply rising mountain ridge of the Eberschützer cliffs with remains of a ring wall . The Kassel – Warburg railway runs north-east around the ridge .
Natural allocation
The Hofgeismar city forest belongs to the natural spatial main unit group of Lower Saxony Bergland (No. D36), in the main unit Upper Weserbergland (36), in the subunit Oberwälder Land with Nethegau (361) and in its part of the Brakeler Kalkgebiet (361.0) to the natural area Beverplatten ( Liebenauer Bergland ; 361.02). The landscape falls to the west into the subunit Hofgeismarer Rötsenke (343.4), which belongs to the main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (34) to the main unit West Hessische Senke (343).
Surveys
The surveys of the Hofgeismar city forest include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN):
- Heuberg (392.0 m), in the center (with transmission / television tower)
- Westberg (approx. 340 m), a little east-south-east of the Heuberg
- Arensberg (approx. 335 m), southwest foothills of the Heuberg
- Olmesberg (approx. 334 m), northeast foothills of the Heuberg
Protected areas
In the northeast of the Hofgeismar city forest is the nature reserve Dingel and Eberschützer Klippen ( CDDA no. 162757; designated 1987; 1.15 km² in size) with the landscape protection area of the same name (CDDA no. 378430; 1987; 33 ha) and Fauna-Flora Habitat area (FFH No. 4422-302; 118 ha). In the north-west lies the NSG Kalkmagerrasen and Diemelaltwasser near Lamerden (CDDA no. 163989; 1989; 18 ha ) with the LSG of the same name (CDDA no. 378495; 1986; 16 ha) and FFH area (FFH no. 4422-303 ; 17 ha). In the southwest is the NSG Ostheimer Hute (CDDA No. 164964; 1988; 15 ha) with the LSG of the same name (CDDA No. 378657; 1988; 22 ha) and FFH area (FFH No. 4421-301; 16 Ha).
Traffic and walking
A few kilometers east and south-east of the Hofgeismar city forest leads through Hofgeismar, among other things, the federal road 83 , from which state roads branch off, on which you can completely bypass the ridge. You can hike through the forest landscape on hiking trails and forest trails that begin or cross these roads. There are three parking spaces for hikers around the Westberg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
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↑ The Hofgeismarer Stadtwald lies in the corners of these natural space sheets:
Sheet 098 (at the southeast corner): Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 98 Detmold. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1959. → Online map (PDF; 5.4 MB)
Sheet 099 (at southwest corner): Jürgen Hövermann: Geographical land survey: The natural units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB);
Note: The Hofgeismarer Rötsenke is shown on sheet 099 with No. 343.0 instead of 343.4 as there:
Sheet 112 (in the north-west): Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)