Nörten forest
Nörten forest | ||
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Highest peak | Hohe Steyer ( 305.5 m above sea level ) | |
location | District of Northeim , Göttingen district South Lower Saxony | |
part of | Göttingen-Northeimer Wald , Weser-Leine-Bergland | |
Classification according to | Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany | |
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Coordinates | 51 ° 38 ′ N , 9 ° 59 ′ E |
The Nörten Forest is a mountain range up to 305.5 m high and a wooded area of the Leinebergland in the Northeim district and, to a small extent, in the Göttingen district in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).
geography
The Nörten Forest is a small ridge immediately east of the Nörten-Hardenberg patch on the Leine , roughly in the middle between the towns of Northeim in the north and Göttingen in the south. To the east is the forest area of the Gillersheimer Forest .
Natural allocation
The Nörten 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 )
- 373.0 Nörtener Wald (with Wieter and Langfast)
- Nörten forest
- 373.0 Nörtener Wald (with Wieter and Langfast)
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(to 373 Göttingen-Northeimer Wald )
The natural area of the Nörten Forest
The mountain and forest area is to be demarcated from the natural area of the Nörten Forest within the Göttingen-Northeim Forest. The natural area also includes the mountainous region with the Wieter and Langfast . Other mountains and elevations are:
- Großer Sandberg (298.8 m), east of Sudheim
- Wehberg (297.8 m), west of Gillersheim
- Kolieberg (296 m), east of Waake
- Langenberg (295.2 m), east of Mackenrode
- Klappenhau (291.3 m), south of Holzerode
The entire landscape is bounded by the following natural areas:
- lower Rhumetal in the north
- Eichsfeld Basin with the Golden Mark in the east
- Göttingen Forest in the southwest
- Leinegraben in the west
nature
The predominantly wooded mountain area is bordered by the two Leine tributaries, Rodebach and Beverbach , on the right . The main type of rock is the red sandstone , at the transition to the Leinegraben along a fault there is shell limestone . The Nörten Forest is part of the LSG Westerhöfer Bergland-Langfast landscape protection area .
mountains
The mountains of the Nörten Forest in the narrower sense include:
- Hohe Steyer (305.5 m), southeast of Bishausen
- Eichenburg (277.7 m), east of Nörten-Hardenberg
- Sonnenberg (260 m), west of Suderhausen
- nameless (253.2 m), west of Spanbeck
- Knippelberg (approx. 245 m), south of Suderhausen
The mountains in the broader sense include:
- north of the Beverbach :
- Piepenberg (278.8 m), north of Bishausen
- Burgberg (251 m), northeast of Nörten-Hardenberg
- south of the Rodebach as the northwestern branch of the Göttingen Forest:
- Hopfenberg (approx. 330 m) with the Bilstein , west of Reyershausen
- Maiberg (260.9 m), southeast of Nörten-Hardenberg
Worth seeing
- Hardenberg Castle
- Hardenberg castle ruins
- Hardenbergwarte on the castle hill
- Ilian Staircase , a 13th century path carved in stone
- Löseck Castle, built in 1873 by Friedrich von Lösecke; served u. a. as a daughter boarding school and private children's home
- Brew oak east of the Hohen Steyer
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Jürgen Hövermann 1963: Geographical land survey: The natural space units in single sheets 1: 200,000 - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1952-1991 → Online maps