The Ith () is a ridge in Germany's

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which is up to 439 m high. It lies about 40 km southwest of

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and, at 22 kilometres, is the longest line of crags in

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Geography

Location

The Ith is immediately northwest of the

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ridge in the

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. It runs in a northwest-southeast direction from

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in the north to

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in the south. The highest elevation on this forested knife-edge ridge is the ''Lauensteiner Kopf'' at which has an observation tower, the ''Ithturm'', and is located in the northern half of the Ith, the so-called ''Krüllbrink'', between the villages of Bisperode and Lauenstein. The streams on the Ith flow west via the Ilse, Remte and