The Asse is a small

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in the district of

Wolfenbüttel Wolfenbüttel (; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District Wolfenbüttel (; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel (district), Wolfenbüttel Distri ...

in southeastern

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with a median height of 200 metres ASL; the highest elevation is the Remlinger Herse with a height of 234 m. There are more than 600 different plants found here; the Asse is mostly covered by trees. It has been inhabited since the

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by farmers coming from the

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region. For several hundred years, salt has been mined in Asse. One of these mines,

Schacht Asse II The Asse II mine (Schacht Asse II) is a former salt mine used as a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in the Asse Mountains of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany. History The Asse II mine was developed between 1906 and 1908 to ...

, is now used to store low- and medium-grade

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produced by medicine and nuclear power plants.

Administration

Administratively, the Asse is shared by the following villages: * Mönchevahlberg *

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* Remlingen *

Wittmar Wittmar is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Asse For several hundred years, salt has been mined in Asse, a small mountain range in the district of Wolfenbüttel. One of these mines, Schacht Asse II, i ...

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The villages on the southern edge of the Asse belongs to

Samtgemeinde Asse Asse is a former ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Wolfenbüttel (district), district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km southeast of Wolfenbüttel. On 1 January 2015 it merged wit ...

Hills and high points

The hills and high points of the Asse include the following– sorted by height in

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s (m) above

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( NHN; unless otherwise stated): * Remlinger Herse (234 m), east of

, northwest of Remlingen * Festberg (232 m), northeast Wittmar, west of Mönchevahlberg * Asseburgberg (227.5 m), NNW of Wittmar * Röhrberg (225 m), NNE of Wittmar * Watzenberg (''Watzeberg''; 222.5 m), ENE of Wittmar * Hinterer Eichberg (220 m), north of

* Rothenberg (220 m), northeast of Wittmar * Auf dem Klaare (216 m), north of Remlingen * Mittlerer Eichberg (201 m), east of Groß Denkte * Meescheberg (188 m), SSW of

* Vorderer Eichberg (185 m), ENE of Groß Denkte

References

Wolfenbüttel (district) Hill ranges of Lower Saxony Nuclear facilities in Germany {{Wolfenbüttel-geo-stub