Rehburg Mountains
| Rehburg Mountains | |
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| Highest peak | Brunnenberg ( 161.4 m above sea level ) |
| location | Districts of Nienburg and Schaumburg ; Lower Saxony ( Germany ) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 ' N , 9 ° 13' E |
The Rehburg mountains are one to 161.4 m above sea level. NHN high mountain range in the districts of Nienburg and Schaumburg in Lower Saxony , Germany .
Name origin
The Rehburg Mountains with their foothills give the impression of several small neighboring mountains. The small town of Bad Rehburg was a well-known spa and bathing resort in the 18th and 19th centuries. That is why people have been talking about the “Rehburg Mountains” for centuries.
geography
location
The Rehburg Mountains extend in the southern part of the Nienburg district and in the northern part of the Schaumburg district on the southwest edge of the Steinhuder Meer nature reserve . They are located between Rehburg-Loccum (northwest), Hagenburg (in the east) and Sachsenhagen (in the south) and extend near the eponymous town of Bad Rehburg . The latter, like Loccum and Rehburg as well as Münchehagen in the west and Winzlar in the east, belongs to Rehburg-Loccum. The municipality of Wölpinghausen (with Bergkirchen) and Auhagen (with Düdinghausen) each lie in the south on the ridge. The Schaumburg Forest joins to the south and the Steinhuder Meer to the northeast .
Not far north of the Rehburg Mountains runs a section of the Steinhuder Meerbach , to the south one of the Mittelland Canal , west an upper reaches of the Fulde and about 10 km west of the ridge a middle section of the Weser .
Surveys
The highest elevation of the Rehburg Mountains is 161.4 m above sea level. NHN the Brunnenberg . Other elevations include the Wölpinghauser Berg ( 136 m ; with Wilhelmsturm ), in the far east of the Düdinghauser Berg ( 121 m ), the Loccumer Berg ( 118.7 m ) and the Atgeberg ( 101 m ).
The views of the Weser , Steinhuder Meer , Deister , Bückeberg , Schaumburger Wald , Stemweder Berg and Wiehengebirge extend from the elevations of the Rehburg Mountains .
geology
The bowl-shaped Rehburg Mountains, created by reversing the relief , drop steeply to the north; its southern slope is more flat. In the geological sense, the ridge is a saddle (Rehburg saddle) made of solid rock.
The bulging of the saddle was created by the movement of Malm salts (not Zechstein salts) in the deeper subsoil, which pushed the overlying, younger solid rock layers upwards. Later, the softer rocks in the saddle core (clay and marl stones, Upper Jurassic ) were thundered out so that a morphological depression was created (relief reversal). The more weather-resistant sandstones ( Wealden sandstones of the Lower Cretaceous ) form the flanks of the saddle and create a bowl-shaped ridge.
In the Wealden sandstone there are coal inclusions of poor thickness and quality. After 1945 the coal was partially mined. Sandstone was mined in Düdinghausen and to a larger extent near Münchehagen.
The Rehburg Mountains are covered with a mixed forest of beech and spruce and are surrounded by large moorland and lowland areas. Of the many small streams and rivulets that drain the ridge, only the Hülsebeeke in the west near Loccum and the Winzlaer Grenzgraben in the west are to be mentioned.
Attractions
The sights of the Rehburg Mountains include:
- Münchehagen Dinosaur Park : A large number of giant dinosaur tracks near Münchehagen
- 800 years old Cistercian monastery Loccum , founded in 1163
- Late Romanesque church in Loccum from the 13th century, visible from afar
- ecological protection station Steinhuder Meer (ÖSSM) in Winzlar
- Wilhelmsturm on the Wölpinghauser Berg, built in 1848
- Holländer windmill near Bergkirchen, in operation from around 1850 to 1955
- Evangelical St. Katharinen Church in Bergkirchen, built around 1150
- Quarry and coal shaft near Düdinghausen
- Historic spa facilities in Bad Rehburg from the romantic era
- Friederike Chapel Bad Rehburg
- Remnants of the Asbeke Abbey , a former monastery near the Asbeke desert from the 11th century
- Düsselburg , ring wall system probably from the early Middle Ages, 3 km northwest of Rehburg