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Mackenröder Spitze
The Mackenröder Spitze, at about , is the highest hill in the Göttingen Forest and lies on the boundary of the Göttingen, town and Landkreis Göttingen, district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony in Germany. Geography The heavily forested hill is located on the eastern escarpment of the Göttingen Forest, a southern part of the Leine Uplands, about 8 km east of the Göttingen town centre and just under 1 kilometre northwest of Mackenrode (Landolfshausen), Mackenrode, a village in the southwest of the municipality of Landolfshausen. From Göttingen (e.g. the borough of Herberhausen), the Mackenröder Spitze can be ascended by a hike through forest on gently sloping terrain. Coming from Mackenrode or Waake, the hill may be reached via short and steep ascents. Harzblick observation tower Just under 400 metres north of the Mackenröder Spitze and about 1.6 kilometres northwest of Mackenrode stands the ''Harzblick'' observation tower at a height of 425&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göttingen Forest
The Göttingen Forest () is a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands that is up to 427.5 metres high. It forms part of the Lower Saxon Hills in South Lower Saxony. Geography The Göttingen Forest, which is divided into numerous separate woods, is found in the south of the Leine Uplands, which is in turn part of the Lower Saxon Hills. It lies in the district of Göttingen east of the city of Göttingen itself, immediately south of the Nörten Forest, west of the Untereichsfeld and north of the Reinhausen Forest with its twin peaks, Die Gleichen. The Göttingen Forest, Nörten Forest and Reinhausen Forest each form part of the Göttingen-Northeim Forest. Several kilometres to the northeast is the ridge of Rotenberg and, beyond that, the Harz Mountains. Northwest of the Göttingen Forest is the Bovenden, north-northwest is Nörten-Hardenberg, to the north is Billingshausen, northeast is Ebergötzen, east is Landolfshausen, southeast is Gleichen and southwest and west is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brocken
The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is a mountain near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, between the rivers Weser River, Weser and Elbe. The highest peak in the Harz mountain range, and in Northern Germany, it is subalpine, yet has a microclimate resembling that of mountains nearly higher. The elevation above its tree line tends to have snowcover from September to May, and mists and fogs shroud it up to 300 days a year. The mean annual temperature is only . It is the easternmost mountain in northern Germany; the next prominent elevation directly to its east would be in the Ural Mountains in Russia. The Brocken has always played a role in legends and has been connected with witches and devils; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took up the legends in his play ''Goethe's Faust, Faust''. The Brocken spectre is a common phenomenon on this misty mountain, where a climber's shadow cast upon fog creates eerie optical effects. Today the Brocken is part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dransfeld Municipal Forest
The Dransfeld Municipal Forest () is situated on a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands that ascends to 480 m high. It is located in the district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony. Although its name suggests a forest within a town, Dranfeld Municipal Forest is actually a small, heavily forested high ridge that lies about halfway between the city of Göttingen to the northeast and the town of Hann. Münden to the southwest; it is east of the Bramwald and immediately south of the city of Dransfeld. The B3 federal highway runs through the western foothills of the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, located in the northern part of the Münden Nature Park. Named hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as Mountain, mountains. Hills ...s in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest include: * Hoher Hagen (origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoher Hagen (Dransfeld)
The Hoher Hagen is a volcanic hill that is still 480 m high today, in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, in the German district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony. Geography The hill, which is located south of Dransfeld, is the highest point in the Dransfeld region by a long way. It lies within the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, a hill massif in the Münden Nature Park that is about halfway between Göttingen to the northeast and Hann. Münden to the southwest. File:Blick hoher hagen harz.jpg, View from Hoher Hagen looking northeast over Göttingen to the Harz File:Jühnde vom Gaußturm.jpg, View of Jühnde from the Gauß Tower on the Hoher Hagen Gauß Tower On top of the Hoher Hagen stands the Gauß Tower, a 51 metre high observation tower at . Sources * Rehkop, Friedel: ''Stadt Dransfeld. Ein geschichtlicher Rückblick vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Frühzeit''. Vol. 1. Horb am Neckar: Geiger-Verlag, 1999. S.196-200,352-360,387-397. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauß Tower
The Gauss Tower is a reinforced concrete observation tower on the summit of the Hoher Hagen in Dransfeld, Germany. The tower can be reached directly by car. A restaurant with a panoramic view is located inside the tower. The tower is named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, who made the large triangle from the Hohen Hagen break into Inselsberg a basis of his survey of Hanover. Data *Construction period: 11 months *Completion: September 1964 *Viewing platform: 528 m over NN *Tower height: 51 m *Foundation: 6 m deep, with a diameter of 13 m. *Diameter of tower shaft: 5 m **1st platform: 18 m (at a value of 14,5 m) **Top platform: 13 m *Elevator capacity: Maximum 8 persons *Travel time: 55 seconds *Emergency stairway: 225 steps, leading from the viewing platform to the entrance and/or the cellar See also * List of towers The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaufungen Forest
The Kaufungen Forest () is a range of steep, wooded hills straddling the border between the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony in central Germany. It takes its name from the town Kaufungen. The hills lie in the fork of the Rivers Fulda River, Fulda and Werra, which meet at Hannoversch Münden just to the north. They are bounded to the west and north-west by the Fulda valley, and to the east and north-east by the Werra valley. The southern boundary is less clearly defined, as the range merges into the gentler hills of the Söhrewald to the south-west, and climbs towards the high plateau of the Hoher Meißner to the south-east. The highest natural point is Hirschberg; however the summit of Bilstein forms a much better natural viewpoint, and since 1869 has been crowned with an observation tower. The present tower was erected in 1889 and extended to its present height of in 1960; it offers panoramic views across the region. Other peaks include Mühlenstein (), Haferberg (), Langenber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Gleichen
Die Gleichen () are a pair of hills, up to 430 metres high, in the district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony in Germany. The twin hills, that were once the site of two fortifications, gave their name to the village of Gleichen. Geography The pair of hills, that comprise the Alte Gleichen (432 m AMSL; the southern hill) and Neue Gleichen (428 m; the northern hill), rise in the centre of the parish of Gleichen just southwest of the small hamlet of Gelliehausen. They are about 400 metres apart and are located south of the Garte stream and north of the ''Wendebach'', both right, eastern tributaries of the River Leine. Southeast of the Gleichen is another hill, the Eschenberg (404 m). The summits of the two heavily wooded hills can be reached on foot, for example from Appenrode and Gelliehausen. History Both hills were once crowned with castles in the time of Henry the Lion. They were built around 1100 by the Counts of Reinhausen, who had turned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoher Meißner
The Hoher Meißner () is a mountain massif with a height of 753.6 m and is located in the ''Meißner-Kaufunger Wald'' nature park in Hesse, Germany. Geography The Hoher Meißner is densely forested and covers an area of 10 km by 5 km. It is located approximately between Eschwege and Grossalmerode as well as Bad Sooden-Allendorf and Waldkappel. Together with large parts of the Kaufungen Forest and the Soehre forest it forms the very extensive Naturpark Meißner-Kaufunger Wald. Geology In the Tertiary period the area was covered by thick forests. From these forests, lignite deposits were formed, which were then covered by sand and lava. The basalt formations have been eroded by weathering and were much higher at one time. Highest mountain in northeast Hesse *The Meißner peak is not the highest point in northern Hesse, even if it is commonly held to be. In northwest Hesse lie some mountains which are substantially higher. Notably, with an elevation of 753.6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohm Hills
The Ohm Hills (, ) are a small range of hills up to high and about 50 km² in area. They are part of the Lower Eichsfeld region and are located in the county of Landkreis Eichsfeld, Eichsfeld, North Thuringia, Germany. Geography The Ohm Hills, most of which are densely wooded, whose southeastern foothills form the Bleicherode Hills, lie in the county of Landkreis Eichsfeld, Eichsfeld on its boundary with Landkreis Nordhausen, Nordhausen. They are located between Weißenborn-Lüderode to the north, Bleicherode to the southeast, Worbis to the south and Teistungen to the west, and extend from the upper reaches of the River Helme (river), Helme in the north to the Wipper (Unstrut), Wipper in the south. To the north and west the range is adjoined by historic landscape of the Lower Eichsfeld (''Untereichsfeld''), further south is the ridge of the Dün and to the southwest the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werra Valley Nature Park. Natural region classification According to "Kassel map" of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeburger See
Seeburger See is a lake in the karst region of the Lower Eichsfeld, Landkreis Göttingen, in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany. Also known as ''Auge des Eichsfelds'' (Eye of the Eichsfeld), the shallow 86.5-hectare (0.865 km2) lake is fed in the west by the ''Aue'' creek at Seeburg and drained to the east in Bernshausen by the same creek and lies at an elevation of 157 m AMSL. The lake is postglacial, having formed about 500 B.C. when a cave collapsed. The lake is the largest natural body of water in Göttingen district. It is bordered in places by reedy growth and elsewhere by trees and grasslands. Other than the two villages, the surrounding land is mostly agricultural, though there is a recreational area with swimming facilities near Seeburg, and a large part of the lake's shoreline ("Naturschutzgebiet Seeburger See") and a small forested area to the north are protected nature zones. Controlled fishing is allowed in the lake, with eel being the most common (and provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harz Mountains
The Harz (), also called the Harz Mountains, is a Mittelgebirge, highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German word ''Hardt'' or ''Hart'' (hill forest). The name ''Hercynia'' derives from a Celtic name and could refer to Hercynian Forest, other mountain forests, but has also been applied to the Rhenohercynian zone, geology of the Harz. The Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz with an elevation of above Normalnull, sea level. The Wurmberg (Harz), Wurmberg () is the highest peak located entirely within the state of Lower Saxony. Geography Location and extent The Harz has a length of , stretching from the town of Seesen in the northwest to Eisleben in the east, and a width of . It occupies an area of , and is divided into the Upper Harz (''Oberharz'') in the northwest, which is up to 800 m high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
