Steep wall (mountain)
| Steep wall | ||
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| height | 518.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Herzberg am Harz ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Resin ( middle resin ) | |
| Dominance | 0.68 km → Grimmberg | |
| Notch height | 24 m ↓ crest of the steep wall | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 40 ′ 30 " N , 10 ° 22 ′ 57" E | |
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The steep wall is 518.9 m above sea level. NHN high ridge in the Harz Mountains . It is located near Herzberg am Harz in the non-parish Harz region of the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen ( Germany ).
geography
location
The steep wall rises in the Middle Harz and in the Harz Nature Park . Its summit is 3.5 km northeast of the center of the core town of Herzberg am Harz and 3.8 km southwest of the village church of the Herzberg district of Sieber and 0.9 km northwest of Grimmberg ( 555 m ) and 2.2 km southwest of Fissenkenkopf ( 527 m ). The ridge goes to the east-southeast in the Höxterberg ( 584 m ). Its north and north-west slopes drop steeply into the Sieber valley . Across the river rise 2 km north of Langfast ( 606.1 m ), 1.4 km north-northwest of Hirtenberg ( 582 m ) and 1.3 km west of the Große Teichtalskopf ( 492 m ).
Parts of the Harz landscape protection area (district of Göttingen) ( CDDA no. 321403; 2000 designated; 300.112 km² in size) lie on the ridge . It is completely forested - on the steep north side with coniferous forest and on the ridge and the south side with deciduous forest .
There is a disused quarry on the steep north-west slope of the steep wall .
Natural allocation
The steep wall belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Upper Harz (380) and in the subunit Southern Upper Harz (380.8) to the natural area Sieberbergland (380.82). The landscape falls to the southwest through the Sieber valley into the natural area of gravel fields of the Rhume , Oder and Sieber (376.23), which is part of the main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (37) and its main unit south-western Harz foreland (376) to the subunit Osterode-Herzberger Foreland (376.2) counts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
literature
- Topographic map Bad Lauterberg , No. 4328, M = 1: 25,000 (TK25), Hanover, 1978, ISBN 9783894354237