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Söhre
The Söhre (; also called the Söhrewald) is a forested hill range of the German Central Uplands and a subordinate natural region of the Fulda-Werra Uplands (major unit 357) in North Hesse, Germany. From a natural region perspective the Söhre, according to the Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany is a sub-region (357.70) of the ''Kaufungen Forest and Söhre'' (357.7) and is home to its highest point, the Hirschberg (Kaufungen Forest), Hirschberg (). Colloquially, however, the ''Söhrewald'' is often taken to mean just the west and centre of this region as far as the upper reaches of the Losse (river), Losse, an area which reaches its highest point at Bielstein (Kaufungen Forest), Bielstein (527.8 m). The Großalmerode Graben Zone, which separates the Söhre in the north from the ''Kaufungen Forest Plateau'', is counted as part of the Söhre. Geography Location and natural regions The Söhre is located on the boundary of the two counties of Landkreis Kassel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hesse Highlands
The East Hesse Highlands () describes a heavily wooded range of hills lying mainly in the German state of Hesse, but also extending a little way into Lower Saxony to the north, Thuringia to the east and Bavaria to the southeast. The region is sandwiched between the West Hesse Depression to the west, the Weser Uplands to the north, the Thuringian Basin to the northeast, the northwestern edge of the Thuringian Forest to the east, the Spessart to the south and the Wetterau to the southwest. The East Hesse Highlands forms a natural region (no. 35 or D47) and is both part of the European Central Uplands as well as the Rhine-Weser watershed. It includes the Vogelsberg- Meißner Axis, also known as the Hessian Central Uplands, the East Hesse Depression and the Rhön. The West and East Hesse Highlands together form the ''Hesse Highlands'' and correspond to the geological unit of the ''Hesse Depression'' in its wider sense, because geologically recent layers of Zechstein and Bunter sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |