Göttingen Forest
| Göttingen Forest | ||
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| Highest peak | Mackenröder peak ( 427.5 m above sea level ) | |
| location | South Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| part of |
Göttingen-Northeimer Waldes in the Weser-Leine-Bergland |
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| Classification according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 32 '4 " N , 10 ° 3' 5" E | |
| rock | Shell limestone | |
The Göttingen Forest is up to 427.5 m above sea level. NN high low mountain range of the Lower Saxon mountainous region in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ). Large parts of the fauna-flora-habitat “Göttingen Forest”, which is created by the nature reserves “ Göttingen Forest ”, “ Stadtwald Göttingen and Kerstlingeröder Feld ” and “ Bratental ” as well as the landscape protection areas “Northeast Göttingen Plateau”, “Göttingen Forest” and parts of the Protected landscape area "Leinetal" is nationally secured.
geography
The Göttingen Forest, which is extremely wooded, extends in the south of the Leinebergland , part of the Lower Saxon uplands. It is located in the district of Göttingen, east of Göttingen , immediately south of the Nörten forest , west of the Untereichsfeld and north of the Reinhäuser forest . All three mountain ranges together form the Göttingen-Northeimer Wald . The Rotenberg ridge is located a few kilometers northeast towards the Harz Mountains . The Göttingen Forest is located south of the Rodebach , a few kilometers west of the Seeburger See , north of the Garte and Bramke and a few kilometers east of the Leine .
Adjacent localities are northwest Bovenden , north-northwest Nörten-Hardenberg , north Billingshausen , northeast Ebergötzen , east Landolfshausen , southeast Gleichen and southwest and west Göttingen.
The Göttingen Forest slopes mostly steeply to the north, east and south. The area of the Göttingen Forest is delimited differently: on the one hand in the narrower sense as the part located south of the B 27 without the Plessforst, on the other hand as the climbing area “Göttinger Wald” with areas bordering north, east and south.
Natural allocation
The Göttingen Forest as part of the Lower Saxony mountainous region is assigned as follows:
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(to 37 Weser-Leine-Bergland )
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(to 373 Göttingen-Northeimer Wald )
- 373.1 Göttingen Forest
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(to 373 Göttingen-Northeimer Wald )
geology
The Göttingen Forest is built up from sediments of shell limestone . Layers of the Pleistocene and Holocene occur in the incisions of the Lutter and Brat valleys . The largest and highest part of the Göttingen Forest in terms of area, namely the plateau-like areas of the northern Plessforst from the Hünstollen to Plesse Castle and the eastern part from the Lengder Castle in the south via the Mackenröder Spitze to the Södderich, are determined by layers of the lower shell limestone , while predominantly trochitic limestone and ceratite layers of the upper shell limestone are found in the more agitated central and western part of the Göttingen Forest . The middle shell limestone is in the transition areas . In the area of the Long Night and the adjacent slope of the Kleper there is an elongated trench of the Keuper , individual inclusions of the lower Keuper can also be found in the southern part of the Göttingen Forest. To the north, east and south areas of the Buntsandstein border the Göttingen Forest, in the west Pleistocene silts and finally the Holocene floodplain of the Leinetal.
In the Trochitenkalk and in the lower Muschelkalk numerous quarries , which are now abandoned, were established, in which the limestone was extracted as the predominant building material of the nearby settlements. The thinner, platy and very brittle layers, on the other hand, were only used as material for road construction and for paving farm roads.
The limestone surfaces of the lower and upper shell limestone are usually only covered by a thin layer of humus and, even when weathered, do not offer high-quality arable soil. Settlements were therefore almost only created in the areas of the middle mussel limestone, in which some small springs also arise.
mountains
The mountains and peaks of the Göttingen Forest include - sorted by height in meters above sea level (usually loud):
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Flowing waters
The rivers in and around the Göttingen Forest include:
- Aue, rises in the northern part of the Göttingen Forest, leaves it eastward, western tributary of the swell
- Garte , which rises in Eichsfeld, passes the Göttingen Forest in the south, western tributary of the Leine
- Leine , passes the Göttingen Forest in the west, southern tributary of the Aller
- Lutter , which rises in the center of the Göttingen Forest, leaves it to the northwest, westward tributary of the Leine
- Rodebach , passes the Göttingen Forest in the north, western tributary of the Leine
- Suhle , rises in the southeast part of the Göttingen Forest, leaves it eastwards, southwest tributary of the Hahle
- Weende , rises in the western part of the Göttingen Forest, leaves it westward, western tributary of the Leine
Worth seeing
Lookout points in the Göttingen Forest are the Bismarck Tower in Göttingen (Kleperberg), the Eulenturm (near Kleperberg) and the Harzblick (an observation tower near the Mackenröder peak).
Of historical interest are the Hünstollen (mountain with ramparts, former Fliehburg and observation tower), and the ruins of the Rieswarte (approx. 352 m above sea level ), the Roringer Warte (approx. 325 m above sea level ) and the Plesse Castle ( approx. 350 m above sea level ; near the 386 m high Wittenberg).
The Eibenwald am Hainberg (Eddigehausen, below Castle Plesse) is a natural monument . The Kerstlingeröder field , an almost 200 hectare large open space in the Göttingen Forest with rare plants and animals, and the Sengersfeld, an orchard meadow created in 1987 with 49 different, sometimes very rare, old fruit tree varieties are of ecological importance .
The Göttingen Forest is the location of a branch of the Göttingen observatory (near Kleperberg and Hainberg).
literature
- Ulrich Nagel and Hans-Georg Wunderlich : Geological block diagram of the area around Göttingen. (Publications of the Lower Saxony Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Development, Series A, Volume 91, 2nd Edition), 50 pages + supplement, Göttingen 1976.
- Sigmund Koritnig (Ed.): On the mineralogy and geology of the area around Göttingen. 285 pages, VFMG, Der Aufschluss, special volume 28, Heidelberg, 1978 ( pdf 42 MB ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b August Deppe, Heinrich Troe: The Göttinger forest and its surroundings . Göttingen 1956, pp. 8-12
- ↑ Agreement on climbing in the Göttingen and Reinhausen forests between the Lower Saxony state forest administration of the IG Klettern, the German Alpine Association, the nature conservation associations in the GUNZ and the district of Göttingen. (PDF; 243 kB) 1.2.1 Significance of space from a climbing point of view. September 6, 2006, p. 5 , accessed December 21, 2015 .
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↑ Various authors: Geographical land survey: The natural space units in single sheets 1: 200,000 - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952-1991 → online maps .
- Sheet 99: Göttingen (Jürgen Hövermann 1963)
- Sheet 112: Kassel (H.-J. Klink 1969)
- ↑ Ulrich Nagel, Hans-Georg Wunderlich: Geological block diagram of the area around Göttingen . Göttingen, Hanover 1976