Lower Saxony highlands

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Location of the Lower Saxony mountainous region

The Weser- and Weser-Leine-Bergland ( Lower Saxony Bergland ) is up to 527.8  m above sea level. NHN high low mountain range in southern Lower Saxony , northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Hesse . It is part of the German low mountain range threshold . At the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation it is listed under the serial number D36 in the list of the main natural spatial unit groups in Germany .

The new main unit group D36 combines the old main unit groups 36, 37 and 53, each of which includes parts of the Weserbergland in the narrower and broader sense. Meanwhile, all three parts, despite their (misleading) names, go far beyond the common Weser Uplands, which are shown in atlases.

The Weser-Leine-Bergland (37) also includes the entire Leinebergland , while the Harz Mountains , which are in parts of Lower Saxony, but which are significantly older in terms of geological age , are not part of the Lower Saxony Mountains and have their own main unit group (D37).

Natural structure

In the following, the landscapes of the Lower Saxon mountainous region are listed according to natural areas ;
Parts of the Weserbergland in the narrower sense are marked with (W), parts of the Leinebergland with (L):

Lower Weserbergland

In addition to the Osning (=  Teutoburg Forest , up to 446.4  m ) and the Wiehengebirge (up to 319.6  m ), the historic landscapes of Tecklenburger Land and Osnabrück Land are part of this large landscape in the (north) west of the Lower Saxon mountainous region.

The Lübbecker Loessland (533) is not counted by the author of sheets 83/84 Osnabrück / Bentheim and 85 Minden to the Lower Saxon mountainous region and therefore not to the low mountain range threshold, but is classified here according to the ordinal number. In terms of its national nature, it corresponds more to the Lower Saxony Börden , which adjoins the northern edge of the low mountain range threshold , from which it is, however, separated by the Middle Weser Valley .

The following list is arranged from north (west to east) to south (west to east); By main unit (three-digit numbers), depending on a space, the associated natural leaves are referenced:

  • 53 Lower Weser Uplands
    • 533 Lübbecker Loessland
      • (Western Lübbecker Loessland)
        • 533.6 Schwagstorfer Loessvorland (immediately east of 536.1, north of 536.0)
        • 533.0 Wittlager Lößvorland (east of 533.6)
      • (Middle Lübbecker Loessland)
        • 533.1 Alsweder Niederungen (east of 533.0)
        • 533.2 Lübbecker Loesshang (southeast of 533.1, at the junction with 532.2)
      • (Eastern Lübbecker Loessland)
        • 533.5 Hartumer loess plate (north)
        • 533.4 Bastau lowland (middle)
        • 533.3 Rothenuffelner Loesshang (south, junction to 532.3)
    • (536/532 Wiehengebirge )
      • 536 Western Wiehengebirge
        • 536.1 Kalkrieser Heights (north)
        • 536.0 tractor harrows
      • 532 Eastern Wiehen Mountains (W)
        • 532.1 Oldendorfer Berge (532.0 in the eastern north set up like a nest)
        • 532.0 Bad Essen Heights (west)
        • 532.2 Lübbecker harrow (center)
        • 532.3 Bergkirchener Eggen (east)
    • (535/531 hill country between Wiehengebirge and Teutoburg Forest)
      • 535 Osnabrück hill country (west)
        • 535.2 Achmer foreland (western north)
          • 535.20 Neuenkirchener Platte (west north)
          • 535.21 Gehn (east north)
          • 535.22 Vinter lowlands (central north)
          • 535.23 Wallenbrocker lowlands (west)
          • 535.24 Seester Platte (center)
          • 535.25 Halener Sande (east)
        • 535.0 Northern Osnabrück hill country (north)
          • 535.01 Barlager Sande (west)
          • 535.00 Wallenhorster Bergland (north)
          • 535.02 Schledehauser Hügelland (center)
          • 535.03 Meller heights (with Meller mountains , southeast)
        • 535.3 Western Osnabrück hill country (west)
          • 535.30 Westerkappelner Flachwellenland (north)
          • 535.31 Mettinger Vorland (northwest)
          • 535.32 Schafbergplatte (west)
          • 535.33 Ibbenbürener Senke (western south)
          • 535.34 Habichtswald (middle south)
          • 535.35 Leedener Senke (east south)
        • 535.1 Hare lowlands (between 535.0 (northeast / right) and 535.2 (northwest) and 535.3 (west) and 535.4 (South))
          • 535.10 Halen valley
          • 535.11 Osnabrück lowland
        • 535.4 Southern Osnabrück hill country (south)
          • 535.40 Holter hills and mountains
          • 535.41 Öseder Mulde
      • 531 Ravensberger Hügelland (east)
        • 531.0 Quernheim hills and mountains (north)
          • 531.00 Meesdorf Heights
          • 531.01 Quernheim hill country
        • 531.1 Else Werre lowland (middle)
        • 531.2 Herford hill country (south)
          • 531.20 Krukum-Bünder plateau and hill country
          • 531.21 Oeynhausen hill country
          • 531.22 Neuenkirchen hill country
          • 531.23 Herford plateau and hill country
          • 531.24 Stieghorster Osning foreland
    • (534/530 Teutoburg Forest )
      • 534 Osnabrücker Osning (in the manual still Tecklenburger Osning ; west)
        • 534.0 Ohrbecker Heights (placed in the center north)
        • 534.1 Tecklenburg-Ibürger Bergland (northern slope)
          • 534.10 Gellenbeck hills and mountains
          • 534.11 Vessendorfer Heights
        • 534.2 Tecklenburger Osning (main ridge)
          • 534.20 Dörenther Osning
          • 534.21 Iburger Osning
          • 534.22 Dissener Osning
        • 534.3 Southern Osning foreland (southern slope)
          • 534.30 Brochterbecker Osningvorland
          • 534.31 Lengerich Osningvorland
          • 534.32 Rothenfelder Osningvorland
      • 530 Bielefelder Osning (east)
        • 530.0 Werther-Oerlinghausener Osning-Vorberge (north slope)
          • 530.00 Kirchdornberg hills and mountains
          • 530.01 Bielefeld mountains
          • 530.02 Pivitsheider Mountains
        • 530.1 Osning comb (main comb )
          • 530.10 Haller Osning
          • 530.11 Brackweder Osning
          • 530.12 Lipper forest

Upper Weser Uplands

This in the Lower Saxony mountainous region (in west-east direction) central, u. a. the Eggegebirge (up to 464  m ) and the Lipper Bergland (up to 495.8  m ) extensive landscape extends east to the valley of the Weser between Bad Karlshafen and Porta Westfalica , which is included in this.

In the following list, the associated natural leaves are referenced by main unit (three-digit numbers), depending on a space.

The numbering of the sub-units of 360 and 361 (Warburger Börde and Oberwälder Land) on sheet 98 Detmold (1959) differs considerably from sheets 99 Göttingen (1963), 111 Arolsen (1963) and 112 Kassel (1969). The Borgentreich Land , which is commonly counted as part of the Warburger Börde (see geological map 1: 300,000 Hesse) and was also included in the main unit map for the manual (1960), was still assigned to the Oberwälder Land on the Detmold sheet. Conversely, Blatt Detmold included the Liebenauer Bergland, which all later authors agreed to be part of the Oberwälder Land, part of the Warburger Börde. The following assignment corresponds to the later sheets.

The author of Blatt Arolsen, Martin Bürgener, does not count the Warburger Börde to the Upper Weser Uplands (main unit group 36), but to the West Hessian mountain and sink country (34).

  • 36 Upper Weser Uplands
    • 360 Warburger Börde
      • 360.0 Große Börde (sheets Göttingen and Arolsen) = 361.1 Borgentreicher Land (sheet Detmold)
        • 360.00 (sheet Arolsen) = 361.10 Borgentreicher Börde (sheet Detmold)
        • 360.01 (sheet Arolsen) = 361.11 Ossendorfer plates (sheet Detmold)
      • 360.1 Diemelbörde (on sheet Detmold: 360.0 Diemelbörde + 360.2 Warburger Platten without the extreme west of the western part)
      • 360.2 Steiger plate
    • 361 Oberwälder Land
    • 362 Paderborn plateau
    • 363 harrow area
      • 363.0 Western harrow foreland
        • 363.00 Kohlstadt Kalkbergland
        • 363.01 Altenbekener Kalkbergland
        • 363.02 Lichtenau basin
      • 363.1 harrow
        • 363.10 Horner Harrow
        • 363.11 Neuenheerser Egge
        • 363.12 Kleinenberger Mulde
        • 363.13 Warburg Forest
      • 363.2 Eastern Egge Foreland
        • 363.20 Horner Basin
        • 363.21 Sandebecker hill country
        • 363.22 Driburger Land
        • 363.23 Neuenheers hill country
        • 363.24 Borlinghauser Valley
        • 363.25 Bonenburg hill country
        • 363.26 Rimbeck plate
    • 364 Lipper Bergland
      • 364.0 Bega hill country
        • 364.00 Camp mountain range
        • 364.01 Bega trough
      • 364.1 Western Lipper Mountains
        • 364.10 Salzufler Keuper Heights
        • 364.11 Exter hill country
        • 364.12 Vlothoer Bergland
        • 364.13 Deserted hills and mountains
        • 364.14 Taller Bergland
        • 364.15 Hohenhausener Bergland
        • 364.16 Lemgo valley basin
        • 364.17 Lemgo Mountains
        • 364.18 Hillentrup Basin
        • 364.19 Humfeld valley basin
      • 364.2 Eastern Lipper Mountains
        • 364.20 Krankenhagener Kuppen
        • 364.21 Heidelbecker Heights
        • 364.22 Bösingfeld Basin
        • 364.23 Alverdissener Heights
        • 364.24 Rumbeck Heights
        • 364.25 Halvestorfer Hügelland
        • 364.26 Ärzen valley basin
        • 364.27 Hamelin Mountains
        • 364.28 Grohnder Mountains
      • 364.3 Southern Lipper Mountains
        • 364.39 Werre hill country
        • 364.31 Detmold hill country
        • 364.32 Blomberg Basin
        • 364.33 Steinheim Basin
        • 364.34 Blomberger Heights
        • 364.35 Barntrup Basin
        • 364.37 Schwalenberger Heights ( Köterberg )
        • 364.38 Löwendorf hill country
    • 365 Pyrmonter Bergland
    • 366 Rinteln-Hamelin Weserland (W)
      • 366.0 Weser Valley
        • 366.00 Widening of the Rhône valley
        • 366.01 Vlothoer Weser breakthrough
        • 366.02 Rinteln valley widening
        • 366.03 Widening of the Hamelin valley
      • 366.1 Southern Weser foothills
        • 366.10 Hausberger hills and mountains
        • 366.11 Steinbergen loess slope
    • 367 Holzmindener Wesertal (W)
      • 367.0 Weser meadow and Weser terraces
    • 368 Weserengtal from Bodenwerder (W)
      • 368.0 Kirchohsen valley
      • 368.1 Bodenwerder valley

Weser-Leine-Bergland

This large landscape contains in the Solling (up to 527.8  m ) u. a. the center of gravity of the Lower Saxon mountainous region. The Weser-Leinebergland was in the fifth delivery of the Handbook of natural physical Germany still Leinebergland called. As already mentioned in this book, it is divided into two geomorphologically very different large landscapes.

The Upper Weser-Leine-Bergland with the main units 370 to 376 and the central Leinegraben (372) has relatively flat bulges and bends and the bedrock is the red sandstone, which is south of the Weser origin, also only from Fulda and Werra from its continuation in Kaufunger Forest in the Hessian highlands is separated. It is a natural eastern continuation of the Upper Weserbergland (36), which, in a similarly large area, mainly represents the layers of the shell limestone and the Keuper.

The lower Weser-Leine-Bergland with the units 377 to 379 is characterized by a very small relief with steep crests of Jura and chalk, rare Muschelkalk, over wide-span Keuper, Jura and chalk hollows with partial loess layer. In principle, the Rinteln-Hamelin Weserland (366) would be the natural south-western edge of this landscape.

In the following list, the associated natural leaves are referenced by main unit (three-digit numbers), depending on a space:

References and comments

  1. ↑ Various authors: Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units in single sheets 1: 200,000  - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959–1970 →  online maps ;
    leaves in parentheses are only marginal.
    • Sheet 83/84: Osnabrück / Bentheim (Sofie Meisel 1961)
    • Sheet 85: Minden (Sofie Meisel 1959)
    • Sheet 86: Hanover (Sofie Meisel 1960)
    • (Sheet 87: Braunschweig (Theodor Müller 1962))
    • Sheet 98: Detmold (Sofie Meisel 1959)
    • Sheet 99: Göttingen (Jürgen Hövermann 1963)
    • (Sheet 100: Halberstadt (J. Spönemann 1970))
    • (Sheet 111: Arolsen (Martin Bürgener 1963))
    • Sheet 112: Kassel (H.-J. Klink 1969)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 83/84 Osnabrück / Bentheim. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 6.4 MB)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 85 Minden. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. →  Online map (PDF; 4.5 MB)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 98 Detmold. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. →  Online map (PDF; 5.4 MB)
  5. ↑ Geological Map of Hesse (RTC 300) , Hessian Agency for Environment and Geology (PDF; 28 KB)
  6. ↑ a b c d Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Jürgen Hövermann : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. →  Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  9. ↑ Leaf Detmold named the northern part on both sides of the Bever (361.02) Bever plates and the southern part on both sides of the Diemel around Liebenau ( here 360.3) Liebenauer Bergland ; however, the seam between the two would be scarce on the Göttingen sheet. The sheets Arolsen, Göttingen and Kassel summarize both landscapes and call them Beverplatten (sheet Göttingen - the name is also used by the Environmental Atlas of Hessen) or Liebenauer Bergland (sheets Arolsen and Kassel); Probably the most fitting name Bever-Diemel-Kalkbergland is given in brackets on the pages Arolsen and Kassel.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 86 Hanover. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
  11. ↑ The Humfeld valley basin is accidentally listed as 364.10 in Blatt Detmold, which it only touches on the edge.
  12. ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
  13. ↑ The manual does not use the terms "lower" and "upper", but only speaks of north and south .
  14. ↑ Designation on sheet 112 Kassel (1969)
  15. ↑ a b c description on sheet 99 Göttingen (1963)
  16. ↑ a b c 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)
  17. ↑ In sheet 99 Göttingen (1963) 374.3 or the part on that sheet was shown as Hellberge ; Sheet 100 Halberstadt (1970), however, already lays the dividing line between Hellbergen (374.30) and Bischofferoder Bergland (374.31) on the section of the Göttingen sheet .
  18. ↑ a b Name on sheet 100 Halberstadt (1970)
  19. ↑ On sheet 99 Göttingen (1963) 374.5 or the part on that sheet was shown as Rotenberg ; this is not in direct contradiction to sheet 100 Halberstadt (1970), which sees the border from Rotenberg (374.50) to the Silkeroder Hügelland (374.51) entirely on sheet Halberstadt.
  20. ↑ a b The text refers to the witness mountains (made from shell limestone) without specifying them
  21. ↑ The Eichsfelder Kessel is not shown or drawn in on sheet 112 Kassel , but would have only taken up marginal areas of it, while the main part would have been on sheet 113 in Sondershausen , whose non-appearance had already been decided in 1969.
  22. ^ Theodor Müller : Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural space units on sheet 87 Braunschweig. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)

literature

  • Jürgen Spönemann: Geomorphological investigations on layer ridges of the Lower Saxon mountainous region. In: Göttinger geographical treatises (36), geographer. Inst. D. Univ. Goettingen 1966
  • Eckehard Schunke: The layered slopes in the Leine-Weser Bergland depending on the geological structure and climate. In: Göttinger geographical treatises (43), geographer. Inst. D. Univ. Goettingen 1968
  • F. Lehmeier: On the treasure trove of forms of the layered ridge landscape in Lower Saxony. (especially in the Ith-Hils-Bergland) In: Berliner geographische Abhandlungen (47), Berlin 1988
  • Ernst Brunotte, Karsten Garleff: Structural landforms and plantation surfaces in southern Lower Saxony. In: Frank Ahnert (ed.): Landforms and Landform evolution in West Germany. Catena Supplement (15), Braunschweig 1989, pp. 151-161

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′  N , 9 ° 0 ′  E