Seven mountains (ridge)
| Seven mountains | |
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 The seven mountains near Alfeld as part of the sack trough (B) |
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| Highest peak | Hohe Tafel ( 395 m above sea level ) |
| location | District of Hildesheim , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) |
| Lower Saxony highlands | Leinebergland |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 2 ′ N , 9 ° 50 ′ E |
| Age of the rock | chalk |
The seven mountains in the Lower Saxony district of Hildesheim are one to 395 m above sea level. NHN high mountain range of the Leinebergland in the Lower Saxon mountainous region .
Together with the foothills and the Sack Forest, the Seven Mountains form part of the geological structure of the Sack Hollow . They have nothing to do with the fairy tale Snow White . The common number seven , which also occurs in fairy tales, happens to be found here too. According to the novel "Der Bruderhof" by Heinrich Sohnrey from 1895, the hills were also called "The Seven Brothers".
geography
location
The Sieben Berge ridge is located in the eastern part of the Leinebergland , a northern part of the Lower Saxony mountains . It lies between Gronau an der Leine in the north, Sibbesse in the northeast and Alfeld in the south.
The Seven Mountains are surrounded by the mountain ranges of Hildesheimer Wald in the northeast, Sauberge in the east-northeast, foothills in the east and Sackwald in the southeast. To the west is the valley of the Leine, behind which the mountain ranges Rettberg and, to the north-north-west of it, Külf spread out. Topographically , the Seven Mountains merge seamlessly into the foothills . At the edge of the ridge there are several streams whose waters sooner or later flow into the Leine.
Natural allocation
The seven mountains together with the southeast, Sackwald in the Lower Saxony mountains (D 36) in the natural environment feature unit group Weser Tether mountains (No. 37;. Leinebergland ) and in the main unit Alfelder mountains (377), the subunit seven mountains and Sackwald (377.4 ).
Surveys
The seven mountains, the highest elevation of which is the Hohe Tafel ( 395 m ), consist of these elevations viewed in north-south direction - with heights in meters (m) above sea level (MSL; unless otherwise stated according to):
- Hörzen (365.3 m) - east of Brüggen
- Hohe Tafel (approx. 395 m; also called Table Mountain and in 1886 the steep Brink, the Platte and "Die Wacht an der Leine") - east-southeast of Brüggen, with Ernst-Binnewies-Turm (common parlance: Tafelberg Tower ; observation tower)
- Saalberg (approx. 317.0 m) - southeast of Brüggen
- Ostenberg (300 to 320 m) - east of Dehnsen , western flank / spur of the Remmser Kopf (356.0)
- Lauensberg (333.4 m) - north-northeast of Eimsen
- Heimberg (319 m) - northeast of Eimsen
- Himmelberg (307.5 m) - north of Alfeld (Leine) , with the Himmelberg tower (22.12 m high)
Other elevations that border the Seven Mountains are (sorted by height):
- Nesselberg (357.9 m) - east-southeast of Brüggen
- Nussberg (302.4 m) - between Rheden and Eberholzen , with transmission tower (northeast flank)
- Ortsberg (279 m) - northeast of Alfeld
Flowing waters
The rivers in and around the Seven Mountains include:
- Despe - passes the Seven Mountains in the north in an east-west direction flowing, eastern tributary of the Leine
- Hahmbach - rises in the northeast of the Seven Mountains on the seam line to the foothills, southern tributary of the Despe
- Leine - flowing through the Seven Mountains in the west in a south-north direction, left tributary of the Aller
- Warnebach (Warne) - rises in the southeast of the Seven Mountains near Langenholzen , northeast tributary of the Leine; canalized in Alfeld in the 14th century; their water drove the Upper and Lower Warnemühle
Localities
The towns on the edge of the Seven Mountains include:
- Alfeld - on a leash, south of the Seven Mountains
- Brüggen - on the Leine, northwest of the Seven Mountains
- Eberholzen - on the Hahmbach, north-northeast of the Seven Mountains
- Gronau - on the Leine, north of the Seven Mountains
- Rheden - east of the Leine, west of the Seven Mountains
- Sibbesse - in the catchment area of the Despe , northeast of the Seven Mountains
Protected areas
On the south-western edge of the Seven Mountains lies the nature reserve (NSG) Unterer Lauensberg ( CDDA -Nr. 166005; designated 1986; 9.3 hectares ) and to the south-east at the transition to the foothills is the NSG Schiefer Holzer Berg (CCDA-No. 165384; 1984; 12 ha). On almost the entire mountain range, parts are the protected landscape Seven Mountains and Foothills (CDDA No. 324552;. 1989; 33.688 km² ) and also those of the Fauna-Flora-Habitat type region Seven Mountains, Foothills (FFH no. Km² ; 3924- 301 km²).
Snow white
In order to make the ridge of the Seven Mountains better known, a connection is often made with the fairy tale Snow White , recorded by the Brothers Grimm at the beginning of the 19th century . In the fairy tale, Snow White lived with the seven dwarfs behind the seven mountains.
The fairy tale is located in different regions in Germany. For a while, this also included the Alfeld region in southern Lower Saxony , although the current state of narrative research tends to suggest that this is not where the origin lies. If you take the Seven Mountains as a geographical reference, you will find the mining town of Osterwald to the northwest of it , a district of Salzhemmendorf on the Osterwald ridge of the same name in the Leinebergland. A hard coal mine ( Hüttenstollen Osterwald ) has been operated there since the 16th century . There was glass production nearby through the Lauensteiner Glas . If you extend the line from Osterwald over the Seven Mountains near Alfeld , you come to the ruins of the Stauffenburg , where the wicked stepmother lived. However, there is no local reference to the fairy tale collectors, the Brothers Grimm, as they did not teach at the university in nearby Göttingen at the time the fairy tale was collected and they did not stay in the Alfeld area. The fairy tale can already be found in the first edition of Children's and Household Tales from 1812, long before the Grimms received their call to the University of Göttingen .
Worth seeing
One of the sights of the Seven Mountains is the forest landscape, in which lime-loving plant species such as orchids occur in warm locations. The ridge can be explored on hiking trails. Observation towers are the Himmelbergturm and Ernst-Binnewies-Turm . The ruins of the Schulenberg Chapel , located northeast of the Alfeld district of Sack on the southwest flank of the neighboring foothills , are also worth seeing. On the Wernershöhe mountain ( 327.9 m ) in the foothills, there is the Wernershöhe cultural hostel , where hikers can spend the night. On the north-north-western edge of the Seven Mountains there is a glider airfield .
Traffic and walking
The Seven Mountains, through which there are no roads, can be reached via the winding state road 485, which branches off from federal highway 3 in Alfeld , as well as via spur roads that branch off from it . The uninhabited ridge is criss-crossed by several forest and hiking trails.
References and comments
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b Berghöhe - various mountains according to an unknown / not researched source