Selter (hills)
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Overview map: seltzer approximately centrally in the lower half, Ith and Hils left of it, between the Wall Waldensian Valley
The soda is one to 395 m above sea level. NN high ridge of Lower Saxony's mountain country in the districts of Hildesheim, Minden wood and Northeim.
Geography
Geographical location
The soda is a narrow ridge of Alfelder Uplands, a part of the line mountain region in the Lower Saxon Hills. It covers approximately 11 square kilometers in the villages Alfeld, Freden, Kreiensen and Delligsen. It lies between Delligsen the northwest, Imsen in the north, Freden in the east, in the southeast Erzhausen, Greene in the south-southeast, Naensen in the south, and Stroit Ammensen in the southwest and Varrigsen in the West. His imaginary center is Freden.
Northwest of the soda is the Steinberg, each side of the ridge passing the line northeast of the bag forest and east of the Bright Mountain, south and west of the Hube Hils. The Valley of Wispe, a southwestern line inflow, leads on to Steinberg.
Northwest and west of the B 3 leads past the seltzer, in the south the B 64 The Nollen, the southern slopes of the seltzer, leads as part of the railway line Altenbeken - Kreiensen about in west-east direction of the 884 m long tunnel Naenser. South-southeast of the High harrow, the highest point of the ridge, is located in the highlands of the seltzer, the upper reservoir of the pumped storage power plant Erzhausen.
Surveys
Among the surveys of seltzer - sorted by height in meters above sea level (NN; unless otherwise called out loud):
- High Egge (395 m)
- Kohlberg (approx. 372 m)
- Thödingsberg (approx. 366 m)
- Nollen (300 m)
- Spielberg (approx. 291 m)
- Mountain hares (approx. 290 m)
- Goats back (about 260 m)
Geology, origin and nature
The soda was arched together with the north-west adjoining ridges Steinberg and Reuberg, Duinger mountain and Thüster Mountain and the Western Ith by tectonic movements in the Tertiary period to a broad saddle, which then collapsed due to excessive tension on the vertex at full length. From the resulting crack the Wall Waldensian valley formed by erosion over time west of this mountain ridge. The Ith is a " western slope " of this former saddle with large similarities in rock, morphological form, soil and vegetation again. The top layer of the surveys consists of dolomite, a hard Jurassic limestone. In soda have been found up to 40 cm in diameter at a depth up to 2 m petrified Ammon horns. The large salt mine contains numerous fossils of shellfish, fish and snails, which are up to 30 million years old. Are located on his his partly steep eastern flank and crest itself, usually hidden in the forest, limestone cliffs, the seltzer cliffs, which are reported in the central and southern part of the soda with the Fredener, Esbecker, Erzhausener and Naenser cliffs as a nature reserve.
The soda is among the largest Schatt slope forest areas of Lower Saxony.
Attractions
Among the attractions of seltzer include ( in alphabetical order ):
- "Three fir stone ", a rock formation with an estimated weight of 170,000 quintals, ie 8,500 tonnes
- " Chamber rock ", rock with cave in which are located a legend after seven chambers
- "Chamber leg ", a large boulder in cone shape
- Cave at the Three Fir cliff. Here they found prehistoric tools, such as snaffle gag from deer antlers, small animal rib with inserted lace bronze fragment of a wire of iron, animal bones with bat and cut marks and ceramic pieces.
- " Marienfels ", rocky northwest Erzhausens with 1898 aggregated in stone Marienquelle
- " Nollen ," southern foothills of soda at Naensen with Naenser tunnel ( 884 m long)
- Pumpspeicherwerk Erzhausen with 160,000 sq m sub- basin in Erzhausen
- " Seven Years Warrior's Stone ," rock with stone roof under which the Seven Years' War, a company of soldiers to have found shelter
- " Seltzer cliffs " ( natural monument ), east along the ridge, much of it has been put under protection in 2009
- Quarry, abandoned in the forest west-southwest of Freden
Hiking
Numerous forest roads and paths lead through the soda, among other things can be found on a hiking trail along its crest or seltzer cliffs in northwest-southeast direction from Delligsen run by Bruchhof.