Bröhn

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The Bröhn in Springe in Lower Saxony Hannover Region is about 405 m above sea level. NHN is the highest mountain of the Deister. It owes its name to the growing here Broom, formerly Bröm or Bram was called. At the top is the Anna Tower.

Geography

Location

The Bröhn located just east outside of the natural park Weser mountain country Schaumburg -Hameln. Its summit rises just southeast of the center of the Deister on the border of the town Springe, whose main town is located approximately 5.3 km south-southeast, to the municipality Wennigsen whose nucleus is approximately 5.5 km (each a straight line ) is located north-east. The northwestern neighbor survey along the main ridge is the Deister Höfeler (approx. 395 m) with little further located northwest of that Hohenwarte (approx. 379 m) and the south-eastern neighbors along this ridge are the deer heads (about 400 m).

Nature Spatial allocation

The Bröhn heard in the physiographic feature unit group Weser -Leine Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Calenberger Bergland ( 378) and the subunit South Hanover mountains ( 378.3 ) to the natural areas Barsinghausener Deister ( 378.30; northeast) and Nienstedter Deister ( 378.31; southwest).

Mountain height

The summit of Bröhn is in the area of the city on Anna Jump Tower. With 405 m of Bröhn is the highest mountain of the Deister and the northernmost four hundred of the European central mainland (excluding European islands and peninsulas, such as Fennoscandia ), between the Atlantic and the Urals. All the mountains that are located in Germany on a more northern latitude, are lower than the Bröhn. A few meters northwest of the mountain summit is marked on topographic maps, a 402.6 -meter-high office.

Reserves

On the northern edge of the Bröhn are parts of the Protected Landscape Area North Deister ( CDDA-Nr. 323262; designated in 1994; 55.99 km ² ), and on its southern flank those of LSG Süddeister ( CDDA-Nr. 324904; 1967; 33.79 km ²). Southwest of the Deister ridge line located on the Bröhn parts of the Fauna- Flora-Habitat area Süntel, Weser Mountains, Deister ( FFH-Nr. 3720-301; 24.97 km ²).

Annaturm

On the top of Bröhns is the Anna Tower, a 28 m high lookout and radio tower of reinforced concrete, now the sixth successor of the original surveying storm that was built until 1834 at this point at the instigation of Professor Carl Friedrich Gauss. From the observation deck of the tower falls the panoramic view, among others, on the Deister, Hildesheim and Hanover, as Steinhude, in the Weser mountain country and with a clear view to the Brocken in the Harz Mountains.

In addition to the Anna Tower is the Waldgaststätte Anna Tower.

Plane crash

About 300 meters east of the Bröhngipfel crashed in September 1958 at 11 clock in the morning from a jet fighter of the type Republic F -84 of the Danish Air Force. The machine grazed on 500 m flight path several treetops and then exploded. The 24 -year-old pilot Jorgensen was killed. He started with his squadron in Copenhagen and was targeted the airbase Upjever. In the mist he became disoriented and was at 250 m altitude over the city Hagen a last position message.

Transport and Hiking

Something northwest past the Bröhn leads Egestorf between the northeast and southwest Nienstedt in the provincial road 401 on the Deister. You can reach the Bröhngipfel with the Annaturm as the parking area at the Nienstedter pass ( 276.6 m), which is 3.1 km north-west of the L 401, and from such the forest house, Köllnischfeld (315 m), located 1.4 kilometers to the southwest. From both parking forest roads and paths lead to the summit, passing through the along the main ridge of the Deister ridge trail, the European long-distance path E1.