Weper
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| Highest peak | Balos ( 379 m above sea level ) | |
| location | District of Northeim , Lower Saxony , Germany | |
| Lower Saxony highlands | Leinebergland | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 41 ′ N , 9 ° 49 ′ E | |
| particularities | Nature reserve " Weper, Gladeberg and Aschenburg " | |
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The Weper is an elongated and up to 379 m above sea level. NHN high mountain range in the Lower Saxony district of Northeim in Germany .
geography
location
The Weper, located in southern Lower Saxony , which reaches a height of 379 m in the Balos mountain , belongs to the southern part of the Leinebergland . The ridge is located between the southeast foothills of the Solling in the west and the somewhat distant valley of the Leine in the east. It extends in a north-south direction west of the city of Moringen , between Fredelsloh in the north and Hardegsen in the south. To the north of the Weper there is the Ahlsburg ridge (up to 411.4 m ), and to the south the small Gladeberg ridge (up to 360.2 m ). To the west and south the Weper is passed by the upper reaches of the left and western Leine tributaries Espolde .
Natural allocation
The Weper forms the natural area Weper (371.13) in the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Solling foreland (371) and in the subunit Südliches Solling-Vorland (371.1 ). To the north the landscape leads over into the natural area Ahlsburg (371.12), to the west into the natural area Rötsenke von Hardegsen (371.10) and to the south into the natural area Lödingsener plateaus (371.14). To the east it leads into the sub-unit Moringer Basin (372.4), which belongs to the main unit Leine-Ilme-Senke (372) .
mountains
The mountains and elevations of the Weper include - with a height in meters (m) above sea level and an approximate location in the north, middle or south of the ridge:
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Flowing waters
The running waters in and on the Weper ridge include (all in the Leine catchment area ):
- Bölle (rises on the southern edge of the Ahlsburg, passes the northeast foothills of the Weper and is a western tributary of the Leine )
- Dieße (rises on the eastern edge of the Solling, passes the northwest foothills of the Weper and is a south-southwest tributary of the Ilme )
- Espolde (rises on the eastern edge of the Solling, passes the Weper to the west and south and is a western tributary of the Leine)
- Moore (rises on the Weper-Ostabdachung, flows to the east and is a western tributary of the Leine)
- Ummelbach (rises on the Weper-Südostabdachung, flows to the east and is a northwestern tributary of the Espolde)
Localities
The localities - towns , villages and hamlets - on and near the Weper ridge are: (arranged according to main localities
and cardinal points clockwise)
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Protected areas
Parts of the Weper in its northern and central part had been designated as a nature reserve Weper since 1983 ( CDDA no. 82896; 2 km² in size). Parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Weper, Gladeberg, Aschenburg (FFH no. 4224-301; 8.42 km²) are located on the north to the south of the Weper . As of May 14, 2020, the FFH area was designated partly as a nature reserve and partly as a landscape protection area of Weper, Gladeberg and Aschenburg . The previous nature reserve Weper merged into the newly designated nature reserve. The Solling conservation area (CDDA no. 324596; 1999; 330.149 km²) joins the southern part of the ridge in the west .
Landscape image
The Weper, which largely belongs to the eastern part of the Hardegsen state forest , is forested in its narrow southern part and largely poorly forested in the larger northern part. On the western slope in the Weper nature reserve, large areas are artificially kept free of forest in order to preserve the dry limestone grassland communities with their rare plant and animal species; it is the largest protected dry grassland area in Lower Saxony. Before the 19th century, the entire Weper was largely free of forests before it was afforested.
In the northern part there is a glider airfield south-southeast of Tönniesberg and not far west of Nienhagen . On the Balos stands the Sohnreyhütte, named after Heinrich Sohnrey , who once lived in Nienhagen , from which you can overlook the surrounding area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordinance of the Braunschweig district government on the "Weper" nature reserve ... (PDF file; 982.5 kB)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
