Seldom (mountain range)
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 Overview map: Rarely in the lower half of the picture, |
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 View to the Selter near Erzhausen |
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| Highest peak | Hohe Egge ( 395 m above sea level ) |
| location | Districts Hildesheim , Holzminden and Northeim ; Lower Saxony ( Germany ) |
| Lower Saxony highlands | Leinebergland |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 54 ' N , 9 ° 53' E |
| rock | Limestone , marl , mudstone , siltstone , sandstone |
| Age of the rock | Middle Jura , Upper Jura |
The rare is one to 395 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the Lower Saxony mountains in the districts of Hildesheim , Holzminden and Northeim .
geography
location
The Selter is a narrow ridge of the Alfelder Bergland , part of the Leinebergland in the Lower Saxon Bergland . It extends for about 11 km in the quadrangle of the villages of Alfeld , Freden , Kreiensen and Delligsen . It lies between Delligsen in the north-west, Imsen in the north, Freden in the east, Erzhausen in the south-east, Greene in the south-south-east, Naensen in the south, Stroit and Ammensen in the south-west and Varrigsen in the west. Its imaginary center lies with Freden.
To the north-west of the Selter lies the Steinberg , on the other side of the Leine that passes the ridge, to the north-east of the Sackwald and to the east of the Helleberg , to the south the Hube and west of the Hils . The valley of the Wispe , a southwestern Leine tributary, leads over to the Steinberg.
The B 3 passes the Selter to the northwest and west, and the B 64 to the south . The 884 m long Naenser Tunnel runs through the Nollen, the southern branch of the Seltzer, as part of the Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway line in a west-east direction . South-southeast of the Hohen Egge , the highest point of the ridge, is the upper basin of the Erzhausen pumped storage plant in the high elevations of the Seltzer .
Surveys
The elevations of the Seltzer include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (MSL; unless otherwise stated according to):
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Geology, formation and nature
The Selter, together with the mountain ranges Steinberg and Reuberg , Duinger Berg and Thüster Berg, as well as the western Ith, was arched into a wide saddle by tectonic movements in the Tertiary period, which then collapsed over its full length due to excessive tension on the apex. Over time, the resulting crack formed the Wallensian depression west of this mountain range. The Ith exists as the "western slope" of this former saddle with great similarities in terms of rock, morphological shape, soil and vegetation. The top layer of the elevations consists of dolomite , a hard Jura limestone . In the rare one has found fossilized Ammon's horns up to 40 cm in diameter at a depth of up to 2 m . The large salt mountain contains numerous fossils of mussels, fish and snails that are up to 30 million years old. On its ridge and its steeply sloping eastern flank, mostly hidden in the forest, there are limestone cliffs, the Selterklippen , which are designated as a nature reserve in the central and southern part of the Selters with the Fredener , Esbecker , Erzhausener and Naenser Klippen .
The Selter is one of the largest Schatthangwald areas in Lower Saxony.
Worth seeing
The sights of the Seltzer include (sorted alphabetically):
- "Dreitannenstein" , a rock formation with an estimated weight of 170,000 quintals, or 8,500 tons
- "Kammerstein" , a rock with a cave, which, according to a legend, contains seven chambers
- "Chamber club" , a large rock in the shape of a club
- Cave on the Drei-Fir-Cliff . Prehistoric tools were found here, such as snaffle gags made of deer antlers, small animal ribs with an inserted bronze tip, fragments of a wire made of iron, animal bones with traces of cut and cut and pieces of ceramic.
- "Marienfels" , rock north-west of Erzhausen with the Marienquelle set in stone in 1898
- "Nollen" , southern foothills of the Selter near Naensen with the Naens tunnel (884 m long)
- Erzhausen pumped storage plant with 160,000 m² lower basin near Erzhausen
- "Seven Years Warrior Stone " , rock with a stone roof, under which a company of soldiers is said to have found shelter during the Seven Years' War
- " Selterklippen " ( natural monument ), east along the ridge, a large part of which was placed under nature protection in 2009
- Quarry , abandoned in the forest west-southwest of Freden
hike
Numerous forest paths and paths lead across the Selter, among other things you can walk on a hiking trail along its ridge or the Selter cliffs in a north-west-south-east direction from Delligsen to Bruchhof.