Elfas

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The Elfas between city Oldendorf and Einbeck

The Elfas is one to 409.6 m above sea level. NN high Mittelgebirgszug district Holzminden in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). The name is derived from the Low German word fast, that is, one after two pages, lowering height.

Geography

The Elfas is located in the central part of the line mountain -land between the highland and mountain ranges in the north Hils, Homburg forest in the west, the east Hube, Office mountains in the south- southwest and Holzberg in the southwest.

Geologists believe the Elfas together with the Homburg Forest and the Vogler to Elfas - axis, because they lie along a line.

The crests of the Elfas are planted with acidophilous beech forests.

Mountains

Among the mountains in Elfas - sorted by height in meters above mean sea level ( MSL ):

• Light Mountain ( 409.6 m)
• Ahrensberg (approx. 405 m)
• Kneppelberg ( 386.0 m)
• Mountain birch ( 366.4 m)
• Vorwohler mountain ( 360.2 m)
• Moosberg ( 344.7 m)

• Eichholz mountain ( 341.5 m)
• Döhrenberg ( 307.1 m)
• Eimerberg (300 m )
• Short Mountain ( 299.0 m)
• Böhneberg ( 290.0 m)
• Heise neck ( 267.0 m)

Watercourses

Among the rivers in and around the Elfas include:

• Allerbach (eastern tributary of the assessment )
• Assessment ( northern tributary of Ilme )
• Hillebachstausee ( northern tributary of Crooked water )
• Lenne ( passes the Elfas in the West)

Traffic

North past the Elfas leads a section of national road 64, which crosses the highway 3 north of Einbeck. Due to the range of hills run several forestry, riding and hiking trails.

Geology

The Elfas is essentially composed of sandstones of the time of the new red sandstone. Through a halo kinetic process that had already been completed in the Paleogene, the Elfasscholle wandered toward the northeastern Solling, with the orogenic sandstone formed on a layer in the Zechstein Salinars moving. This overthrust older, till then lying down rock layers partly younger, so after erosion processes today cuesta landscape emerged as a northern boundary of Einbeck Mark Oldendorfer basin.

Political Structure

The area of ​​Elfas shares each on about half of the communities of Dassel and Eimen. Two northwestern foothills lie on the municipality of Lenne and Wangelnstedt, the southeastern arm of the municipality of Einbeck. The villages of Port Hagen and Rengershausen lie at the southern foot of the Elfas. Besides Dassel ( located southwest ) and Einbeck (southeast ) are Eschershausen (northwest ) and city Oldendorf ( west ) nearby cities.