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Ambergau
The Ambergau is a historic landscape and natural region unit in the Innerste Uplands in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a basin, about 10 x 10 kilometres across, with 18 settlements (there were 31 in the Middle Ages), the centre and capital of which since the 13th century is the town of Bockenem. The basin, with its fertile agricultural fields, is surrounded by the wooded ridges of Heber (ridge), Heber, the Harplage, the Weinberg and the Hainberg (ridge), Hainberg. The ''Gau (landscape), Gau'' is a cultural landscape that was formed as early as the 8th century. Name The name Ambergau is a combination of the German words ''Amber'' and ''Gau''. ''Amber'' has its origin in the Proto-Indo-European language and has the word stem ''mb(h)'', was means something like dampness. That is probably related to the wet areas that existed at that time, like those of the River Nette (Innerste), Nette. Gau (landscape), Gau is a word for the enclosed settlement area of Germanic peoples. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambergau
The Ambergau is a historic landscape and natural region unit in the Innerste Uplands in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a basin, about 10 x 10 kilometres across, with 18 settlements (there were 31 in the Middle Ages), the centre and capital of which since the 13th century is the town of Bockenem. The basin, with its fertile agricultural fields, is surrounded by the wooded ridges of Heber (ridge), Heber, the Harplage, the Weinberg and the Hainberg (ridge), Hainberg. The ''Gau (landscape), Gau'' is a cultural landscape that was formed as early as the 8th century. Name The name Ambergau is a combination of the German words ''Amber'' and ''Gau''. ''Amber'' has its origin in the Proto-Indo-European language and has the word stem ''mb(h)'', was means something like dampness. That is probably related to the wet areas that existed at that time, like those of the River Nette (Innerste), Nette. Gau (landscape), Gau is a word for the enclosed settlement area of Germanic peoples. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innerste Uplands
The Innerste Uplands (german: Innerstebergland) is a landscape region up to 359 m high and covering an area of over 900 km² in the northern part of the German Central Uplands. It lies within the eastern part of the Weser-Leine Uplands in Lower Saxony (Germany). The Innerste Uplands gets its name from the Innerste, a tributary of the River Leine. Geography Location The Innerste Uplands cover the catchment area of the Innerste southeast of Hildesheim and southwest to south of Salzgitter as far as Goslar and Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz. To the north the area is bounded by the Hildesheim Börde, to the west by the Leine Uplands and to the southeast by the North Harz Foreland. Its central and southern areas are dominated by the Ambergau, a depression dissected by the Nette, a tributary of the Innerste. In and around the Innerste Uplands there are the following clearly defined ridges, most of which are cuestas and some of which lie on the boundary wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harplage
The Harplage is a hill range, up to 290 metres high, located west-northwest of the Harz in the southeast of the German state of Lower Saxony. Geography The forested Harplage is located in the district of Hildesheim in the southwestern part of the Innerste Uplands, a northeastern range of the Lower Saxon Hills and borders on the Ambergau to the west. It rises between Bockenem to the east-northeast and Lamspringe to the southwest. The ridge lies east of the valley of the River Lamme and west of the Nette valley between the northern part of the Ambergau to the north, the southern half of the Ambergau to the south-southeast and the ridge of Heber to the south. A few kilometres away is the ridge of Hainberg northeast of the Nette valley and somewhat southeast of this river are the northwestern foothills of the Harz. The A 7 motorway and the B 243 federal road run past the Harplage a few kilometres to the east. Description Several tributary streams of the Lamme and Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innerstebergland
The Innerste Uplands (german: Innerstebergland) is a landscape region up to 359 m high and covering an area of over 900 km² in the northern part of the German Central Uplands. It lies within the eastern part of the Weser-Leine Uplands in Lower Saxony (Germany). The Innerste Uplands gets its name from the Innerste, a tributary of the River Leine. Geography Location The Innerste Uplands cover the catchment area of the Innerste southeast of Hildesheim and southwest to south of Salzgitter as far as Goslar and Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz. To the north the area is bounded by the Hildesheim Börde, to the west by the Leine Uplands and to the southeast by the North Harz Foreland. Its central and southern areas are dominated by the Ambergau, a depression dissected by the Nette, a tributary of the Innerste. In and around the Innerste Uplands there are the following clearly defined ridges, most of which are cuestas and some of which lie on the boundary wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heber (ridge)
The Heber is a hogback ridge, relatively small in area and up to 313.5 metres high, in the Lower Saxon Hills within the districts of Goslar, Northeim and Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony. Geography The Heber is oriented from northwest to southeast and lies in the southwestern part of the Innerste Uplands, the northeasternmost part of the Lower Saxon Hills where it transitions to the Leine Uplands (Alfeld Uplands). It is located in the western Harz Foreland roughly between Lamspringe by the source region of the River Lamme in the northwest and the town of Seesen on the River Schildau by the Harz Mountains in the southeast. Some distance away to the north are Bockenem on the Nette and Bad Gandersheim on the Gande to the southwest. The Heber region forms part of the districts of Hildesheim (north), Goslar (east) and Northeim (west). To the northeast is the Ambergau (or Bockenem) bowl. The Heber is surrounded by a number of hill ranges: the Harplage to the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hainberg (ridge)
The Hainberg (known locally as the Hainberge as it has several summits. Also the old form Heinberg) is a hill range, up to 299 metres high, northwest of the Harz Mountains in the eastern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The heavily wooded Hainberg runs along the boundary of the counties of Wolfenbüttel, Goslar and Hildesheim. It is located in the centre of the im Zentrum des Innerste Uplands, a northeastern section of the Lower Saxon Hills, several kilometres southwest of the town of Salzgitter and borders on the Ambergau to the east. The ridge is west of the River Innerste, northwest of the Neile and east of the Nette between the ridges of Vorholz to the north-northwest and the Salzgitter Ridge (including the Lichtenbergen) to the north, northeast and east. South of the Hainberg are the northwestern fringes of the Harz Mountains. The Hainberg runs from Holle in the north-northwest and Baddeckenstedt to the north Norden and east to Lutter am Barenberge in the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herzogtum Braunschweig
The Duchy of Brunswick (german: Herzogtum Braunschweig) was a historical German state. Its capital was the city of Brunswick (). It was established as the successor state of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the course of the 19th-century history of Germany, the duchy was part of the German Confederation, the North German Confederation and from 1871 the German Empire. It was disestablished after the end of World War I, its territory incorporated into the Weimar Republic as the Free State of Brunswick. History Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel The title " Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg" (german: Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg) was held, from 1235 on, by various members of the Welf (Guelph) family who ruled several small territories in northwest Germany. These holdings did not have all of the formal characteristics of a modern unitary state, being neither compact nor indivisible. When several sons of a Duke compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochstift Hildesheim
The Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim (german: Hochstift Hildesheim, Fürstbistum Hildesheim, Bistum Hildesheim) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the Middle Ages until its dissolution in 1803. The Prince-Bishopric must not be confused with the Diocese of Hildesheim, which was larger and over which the prince-bishop exercised only the spiritual authority of an ordinary bishop. History After the Duchy of Saxony had been conquered by the Frankish Kingdom, Emperor Charlemagne in 800 founded a missionary diocese at his eastphalian court in Elze (''Aula Caesaris''), about west of Hildesheim. His son King Louis the Pious established the bishopric at Hildesheim in 815, dedicated to Virgin Mary. According to legend delivered by the Brothers Grimm, the king was hunting in the wintery woods of Elze, when he realized that he had lost his pendant with the relic of Blessed Virgin Mary. Distraught he sent out his attendance who finally discovered a flowering r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seesen
Seesen is a town and municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range, approx. west of Goslar. History The Saxon settlement of ''Sehusa'' was first mentioned in a 974 deed issued by Emperor Otto II and Chancellor Willigis, from 1235 on it belonged to the Welf dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg who had a castle erected. In 1428 Seesen received town privileges by Duke Otto II the One-Eyed of Brunswick-Göttingen. On 17 July 1810, Israel Jacobson dedicated in Seesen the first synagogue which employed an organ and a choir during prayer and introduced some German liturgy. This day is celebrated by Reform Judaism worldwide as its foundation date. In 1836 Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later named Henry E. Steinway) built his first grand piano in his kitchen in Seesen; the instrument is today on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Politics Seats in the municipal assembly (''Stadtrat'') as of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holle
Holle is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km southeast of Hildesheim, and 15 km west of Salzgitter. It was mentioned in Tom Clancy's bestseller ''Red Storm Rising ''Red Storm Rising'' is a war novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Larry Bond, and released on August 7, 1986. Set in the mid-1980s, it features a Third World War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact for ...''. References External links Hildesheim (district) {{Hildesheim-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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