Lingen height

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Lingen height
Highest peak Windmühlenberg ( 91  m above sea  level )
location near Lingen ; District of Emsland , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Lingener Höhe (Lower Saxony)
Lingen height
Coordinates 52 ° 31 ′  N , 7 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′  N , 7 ° 30 ′  E
rock Terminal moraine of the Saale Ice Age
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The Lingener Höhe is one to about 91  m above sea level. NHN high hilly landscape of the Dümmer-Geest lowlands in the North German lowlands . It lies between Lingen and Freren in the Lower Saxony district of Emsland ( Germany ).

A few barrows show that the hilly landscape was inhabited in prehistoric times.

geography

location

The wooded Lingener Höhe is located in the Emsland between Lingen in the west-north-west, Langen in the north, Lengerich in the north-east, Freren in the east-south-east, Messingen in the south and Bramsche in the south-west; Thuine is on the north roof and Baccum on the south roof . Fürstenau is located a little to the east in the neighboring district of Osnabrück . It is about 14 km long in an east-west direction and only a few kilometers wide in a south-north direction.

Neighboring heights of the Lingener Höhe are (with maximum heights): To the southeast, beyond the Große Aa, are the northwestern foothills of the Teutoburg Forest ( 446.4  m ) in the Tecklenburger Land , to the east are the Fensterberge ( 73  m ) with the Ankumer Höhe ( Fürstenauer ) on the other side Mountains ; 142  m ), and to the north, beyond the Hase, lies the Hümmling ( 73  m ).

Natural allocation

The Lingener Höhe belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Dümmer-Geestniederung (No. 58), in the main unit Lingener Land (586) and in the sub-unit Backum-Fürstenauer terminal moraine arch (586.2) to the natural area Baccumer Berge ( Backumer Berge ; 586.22). The landscape leads east into the Fürstenau Mountains ( Ankumer Höhe ; 586.23), to the northeast into the Wettruper Geest Islands (586.16), to the north-northeast into the Dohrener valley sand area (586.14) and to the north to west into the Brögberner valley sand area (586.13); the three last named natural areas belong to the sub-unit Haselünner Basin (586.1). In the southwest of the closing Backum-Fürstenauer Endmoränenbogen belonging bollard sand (586.24) to.

In addition, the landscape leads to the East-Southeast in the Setlager Niederungen (581.10), which belongs to the subunit Settrup Valley Sand Area (581.1), as well as to the Southeast in the Frerener Geest (581.01) and to the South in the Plantlünner Valley Sand and Moraine Area (581.00), both Natural areas of the subunit Frerener Grundmoränenplatte (581.0); they all belong to the main unit of the Plantlünner sand plain (581).

Surveys

The surveys of the Lingener Höhe include - sorted by height in meters (m) above mean sea level (NHN):

  • Windmühlenberg (approx. 91 m)
  • nameless hilltop in the Loher Tannen forest (87 m)
  • Kippberg (approx. 76 m, south-west summit; approx. 74 m north-east summit)
  • Queckeberg (approx. 76 m)
  • Tillberg (approx. 73 m)
  • Bramberg (70 m)
  • Strubben (64)
  • Wellberg (approx. 63 m)
  • Rabbit Mountain (59 m)
  • Radberg (56 m)

Flowing waters

The rivers in and near the Lingener Höhe include:

  • Große Aa , arises south of the Lingener Höhe, passes this south, eastern tributary of the Ems
  • Ems , passes the Lingener Höhe in the west, electricity to the North Sea
  • Lingener Mühlenbach , rises north of the Lingener Höhe, eastern tributary of the Ems
  • Speller Aa , arises south-south-west of the Lingener Höhe, passes this south-west, south-east tributary of the Great Aa
  • Thuiner Mühlenbach, rises near the Thuiner Großsteingrab, flows into the Reitbach near Talge, this flows into the Große Aa at Beesten

Localities

The localities on or in the Lingener Höhe include:

geology

The Lingener Höhe is part of a terminal moraine series from the early glaciation of the Saale Ice Age , the Drenthe I stage. To this as Rehburger phase designated ice stage , which can be dated to around 230,000 years before present, include the Ankum Heights , the Dammer Berge , the Kellenberg and Brelinger mountain, but not rehburg hills on Steinhude .

Traffic and walking

Lingener Höhe can be reached via federal roads 402 , which passes the hilly landscape to the east, 214 , which it crosses in a west-east direction, and 70 , which runs west, as well as the state and district roads that branch off from these roads . The Ems-Hase-Hunte-Else-Weg runs roughly in a west-east direction through the hilly landscape .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Topographic map : with the Lingener Höhe ( memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (ÜKN 100; heights according to the top contour lines in AK 5 / 2.5), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
  2. ^ Sofie Meisel: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 70/71 Cloppenburg / Lingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. →  Online map (PDF; 7.0 MB)
  3. ^ Sofie Meisel: Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units on sheet 83/84 Osnabrück / Bentheim. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 6.4 MB)