At the Griesberg near

Bad Salzdetfurth Bad Salzdetfurth () is a town on the banks of the River Lamme in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The municipality includes the town itself, and 12 civil parishes (''Ortsteile'') which were incorporated in 1974: * ...

in the Lower Saxon country of

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...

is the highest hill in the

Hildesheim Forest The Hildesheim Forest () is a range of hills up to in the district of Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony. Geography The Hildesheim Forest is located in the Innerste Uplands, part of the Lower Saxon Hills, between the valleys of ...

, a small range of the Innerste Uplands.

Geography

Location

The Griesberg is located in the southeast of the Hildesheim Forest between the town of

to the east and the village of Petze to the southwest in the east of the municipality of Sibbesse. Its summit region is on the territory of Almstedt, parts of the eastern and southern hillside are in the borough of Bad Salzdetfurth and other areas of the southwestern flank lie in the territory of Sibbesse. Southeast of the hill the Klusbach flows in a westerly direction into the

Lamme Lamme is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Innerste near Bad Salzdetfurth. In 1945 the river was crossed by Allied Forces. See also *List of rivers of Lower Saxony All rivers in the German state of Lower Saxony flow directly ...

and to the northwest is the ''Kalte Beuster'', a right-hand headstream of the Beuster.

Natural regional classification

The Griesberg is part of the

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 major unit group of the

Weser-Leine Uplands The Lower Saxon Hills () are one of the 73 natural regions in Germany defined by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). Geographically it covers roughly the same area as the Weser Uplands () in its wider sense.However at least one sourc ...

(No. 37), the major unit of the Innerste Uplands (379), the sub-unit of the Hildesheim Upland (379.0) and the natural region of the

(379.01).

Sibbesse Transmission Tower

In 1973 the 130-metre-high Sibbesse Transmission Tower (''Fernmeldeturm Sibbesse'') was built on the Griesberg. It is not open to the public. It acts as a non-public microwave link and broadcasts radio programmes to the surrounding area.

Transport and walking

The ''

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'' ) are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are road ...

'' 490 runs from north-to-south past the Griesberg to the west through

. In

Östrum Östrum is a village in the southern part of the town of Bad Salzdetfurth in Lower Saxony, Germany. The L 490 state road runs through the village crossing with the L493. Its immediate neighbours are the villages of Breinum to the west and Bo ...

, the L 482 branches off and runs mainly northwestwards through Breinum, Almstedt, Segeste and Petze to Sibbesse. Both roads are starting points for walks over the hill along forest tracks and paths to the hill. {{German Central Uplands Hills of Lower Saxony Hildesheim (district)