Meller Mountains

Meller Mountains
Highest peak	Adolfsberg ( 220 m above sea level )
location	Lower Saxony
part of	Osnabrück hill country
Coordinates	52 ° 14 '0 " N , 8 ° 21' 42" E Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '0 " N , 8 ° 21' 42" E

View from the Meller Mountains to the northeast over the Friedenshöhe observation tower to the Großer Kellenberg

The Meller Mountains , also simply called Meller Berg , are small and up to a maximum of about 220 m above sea level. NHN high mountains of the Osnabrück hill country . They are located in the urban area of Melle in the district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Parts of the nature and geopark TERRA.vita are located on the Meller Mountains . Although they rise somewhat set off around 6 km south of the main ridge of the Wiehengebirge , they are sometimes included in the latter. The small mountain range extends between the core town of Melle in the south, the districts of Bakum in the southwest and Eicken-Bruche in the south- east, which are part of Melle-Mitte , the Meller district of Buer in the northeast with its towns of Barkhausen in the east and Holzhausen in the north, and the district of Melle Oldendorf in the west; To the north-north-west lies the Meller Gut Ostenwalde . Most of it is drained by the southwest flowing Zwickenbach , whose water runs through the Else and Werre east to the Weser .

Natural allocation

The Meller mountains are in the natural landscape feature unit group Lower Weserbergland (no. 53) in the main unit Osnabrücker hills (535) and in the subunit Northern Osnabrücker hills (535.0) for the natural environment Meller highs (535.03). The landscape leads west to northwest into the natural area Schledehauser Hügelland (535.02). To the south it leads into the Elseniederung (531.10) natural area, which belongs to the subunit Else-Werre-Niederung (531.1), and to the east into the Quernheimer Hügelland natural area (531.01) and to the north into the Meesdorfer Heights (531.00) natural area , both in the Main unit Ravensberger Hügelland (531) belong to the subunit Quernheimer Hügel- und Bergland (531.0).

Surveys

The elevations of the Meller Mountains include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN):

Adolfsberg (220 m, south-south-west summit ; 215 m, north-north-east summit )

Diedrichsberg (219 m); with the Diedrichsburg

Eickener Egge (207.5 m); with Ottoshöhe observation tower

Stuckenberg (207.5 m); with the Friedenshöhe observation tower

Nature and landscape protection area

The closed forest area of the Meller Mountains covers around 8 km². Parts of the landscape protection area Wiehengebirge and Northern Osnabrücker Hügelland ( CDDA no. 390425; designated 2009; 288.348 km² ) lie on the mountains .

tourism

The Diedrichsburg stands on the Meller Berg . In the north of the mountains is the 2 km² large and enclosed wildlife park Diedrichsburg, which has existed since 1963 . He has a large population of semi-tame wild boars. It is particularly popular with tourists in spring when there are numerous newcomers in the park. On the Friedenshöhe, a side knoll of the Stuckenberg near Buer, stands the 28.6 m high observation tower Friedenshöhe , which was built in 1988 and which was expanded into a climatic tower in 2015 . On the Ottoshöhe , a hill on the Eickener Egge near the center of Meller, there is a 28.5 m high observation tower.