Flechtingen Hills

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The 179 meter high ridge Flechtinger is a forested and hilly mountain range in the northwestern Saxony- Anhalt, named for the village Flechtingen.

Location

The Flechtinger ridge is about 20 by 20 kilometers in size. It is bounded on the west by the Aller, in the north of the Spetze, a right tributary of the Aller, in the northeast of the Valley of the ear, which also runs the Mittelland Canal, and on the south by the Beber, a tributary of the ear.

One of the highest peaks of the mountain range Flechtinger is 176 m above sea level. NN of the butter mountain near the village of Ivenrode.

Geology

In contrast to its surroundings in Flechtinger ridge are on geologically old rocks at the surface. It thus forms one of the northernmost occurrences of hard rock in Germany, as North Germany is almost completely covered by unconsolidated rocks of the Quaternary. The ridge is usually built up by volcanic rocks and sedimentary rocks from the Carboniferous and Permian. They are produced partly in large quarries.

Regional geology of the ridge is part of the Flechtingen - Roßlauer plaice, which extends to the northwest from the lowlands of southeast Drömling to Magdeburg and on to Roßlau. Another known Aufragung this plaice is the Magdeburg Domfelsen, which continues in the same as the threshold and the flow rate of the Elbe increased markedly.