Nörten forest

Nörten forest
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
Coordinates	51 ° 38 ′  N , 9 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′  N , 9 ° 59 ′  E

View over the Leineaue near Elvese towards the western Nörten Forest (in the background the Göttingen Forest)

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:

• (to 37 Weser-Leine-Bergland )
  • (to 373 Göttingen-Northeimer Wald )
    • 373.0 Nörtener Wald (with Wieter and Langfast)
      • Nörten forest

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

Section of the Ilian stairs

• 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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ 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

Web links

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