The Fulda-Werra UplandsAigner, Andreas, Josef Stini and Hans Mortensen. ''Annals of geomorphology'', Gebr. Brontraeger, 1996, p. 298. () are a major

natural region A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate. From the ecological point of view, the naturally occurring flora and ...

al unit (no. 357) in the

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 sandwi ...

(major unit group 35) in

East East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that ea ...

and

North Hesse North Hesse (, ) describes the northern part and historical heart of the German federated state of Hesse. The region is – unlike the name Lower Hesse – not a historical territory and also has no established, standard and official administra ...

and, with small elements in the southeast, in the German state of

Thuringia Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...

. Most of the range lies right of the River Fulda and left of the

Werra The Werra (), a river in central Germany, is the right-bank headwater of the Weser. "Weser" is a synonym in an old dialect of German. The Werra has its source near Eisfeld in southern Thuringia. After the Werra joins the river Fulda in the to ...

. The uplands extend from the Rhön mountains northwards, to the

River Weser The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports of Br ...

near Hann. Münden. The best known and highest mountain and sub-range is the

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& ...

in the northeast which reaches a height of . Other well known upland areas are the

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 ...

in the extreme north, the Stölzinger Hills in the centre and the

Seulingswald The Seulingswald (also called the Sillingswald) is a hill range in the German Central Uplands which reaches heights of up to . It is part of the Fulda-Werra Uplands in the East Hesse Highlands within the Hessian county of Hersfeld-Rotenburg; ...

in the south.

Hills

The hills of the Fulda-Werra Uplands include the following – sorted by height in metres (m) above

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN): *

(753.6 m); ''Hoher Meißner'' in the Meißner region * Hirschberg (643.4 m); '' Söhre'' * Bilstein (641.2 m); ''Anterior

'' *

Eisberg Eisberg may refer to: * Eisberg (Lusatian Highlands), a mountain of Saxony, Germany * Eisberg (Moosbach), a mountain of Bavaria, Germany * Eisberg (Reiter Alpe), a mountain of Bavaria, Germany * Eisberg (Stölzinger Hills), a hill in Hesse, Germany ...

(583.0 m); northern ''Stolzhausen Ridge'' in the '' Stölzinger Hills'' *

Haferberg The Haferberg is a hill, ,
in the Kaufungen Forest in Hesse and Lower Saxony in Germany.

Ge ...

(580.4 m); ''Hinterer

'' * Himmelsberg (563.7 m); ''Günsterode Heights'' in the '' Melsungen Upland'' * Alheimer (548.7 m); southern ''Stolzhausen Ridge'' in the '' Stölzinger Hills'' * Dammskopf (520.9 m); ''Rotenburg-Ludwigseck Forest'' in the ''Neuenstein-Ludwigseck Ridge'' (near Schloss Ludwigseck by ''Atzelstein'') * Bielstein (527.8 m); '' Söhre'' * Katzenstirn (500.7 m); southern ''Vockerode Upland'' in the '' Stölzinger Hills'' * Toter Mann (480.3 m);

* Eichelsberg (480.1 m); ''Eichelsberg'' in the ''Neuenstein-Ludwigseck Ridge'' * Herzberg (478.2 m);

Richelsdorf Hills The Richelsdorf Hills () is the name given to a landscape in the German Central Uplands. The terrain is up to high and forms a landscape characterised by mining ( copper shale, cobalt, nickel) in the county of Hersfeld-Rotenburg in East Hesse. Des ...

(''Solztrottenwald'') * Kessel (368.1 m); ''Melgershausen Heights'' in the ''Neuenstein-Ludwigseck Ridge''

Rivers

The most important tributaries of the

Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. Histor ...

and

in the upland region named after them are (in upstream order, i.e. from north to south, rivers outside the boundary in brackets, lengths also in brackets):

References

General sources

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landscape fact files: *
Fulda-Werra Uplands
(except the Kaufungen Forest, Meißner region and Bebra-Melsungen Fulda valley) *

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(except the Söhre) *

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External links

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