Die Gleichen

The matches are a 430 m high mountain pair in the district of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

The two twin mountains that were once home to two castles, are the namesake of the municipality peers.

Geography

The twin mountains, from Old Same (430 m above sea level, . Southern mountain ) and New peers (428 m; northern mountain ) which rise in the center of the municipality of peers directly southwest of the small hamlet of Gelliehausen. They are about 400 meters apart and are located south of the Garte and north of the Tropic of Bach, both right and eastern tributaries of the leash. In a southeasterly direction from the likes the Mountain Ash is (404 m). These three surveys are called witnesses mountains. They consist of limestone, which was demolished in the surrounding areas already due to weather and water. Thus one finds in today's low-lying surrounding soils of red sandstone.

The peaks of each heavily wooded mountains can be climbed on foot coming for example from Appenrode and Gelliehausen.

History

Both mountains were once crowned the time of Henry the Lion of hillforts. They were built in around 1100 by the Earl of clean living, who had converted their family castle in Reinhausen in a Monastery ( Monastery Reinhausen ). Then the castles changed several times the owner. Finally, the match came around 1270 to the Lords of Uslar, ministry officials on castle Uslar. Not long after, the family of Uslar divided the assets on the lines of the Old and New peers peers. New peers fell in 1451 to the Landgrave of Hesse, while retirement peers remained under Welf supremacy. Only in the course of the Congress of Vienna, the possession of new peers to the Kingdom of Hanover was ceded and from here back to the family of Uslar (on Old peers ), which calls itself since 1825 by Uslar - equals, is back on.

The DC castles have never been conquered in numerous feuds, but were abandoned in the 16th century. The inhabitants moved to the former supply farms in the area, the castles fell down to small ruin residues on old peers are still visible mainly.

Trivia

The Göttingen mathematician David Hilbert asked in his lectures, the students occasionally, why say the same " the same". You see neither the same, nor are they equal. Since none of it had an answer, he answered himself: because they have the same distance apart.