Gehn

The Gehn is a small mountain range between Bramsche and Ueffeln, and belongs to Osnabrück hills. The ridge runs from northwest to southeast and is approximately five miles long and an average of two kilometers wide. The highest point is 108 m above sea level. NN high Kettelsberg. It forms the connection between the Wiehengebirge and Ankumer height. The Gehn is mostly forested and is not - as the Ankumer height - part of a glacial Endmoränenstaffel from the earliest Vergletscherungsgeschehen the Saale ice age, the so-called Drenthe I- stage, but a built-up of rocks of the Jurassic ridge, in the course of unfolding at the end of Cretaceous was bulged.

The Gehn heard as the Wiehengebirge and Ankumer height to the nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. It is enclosed in a clockwise direction from the towns Bramsche, Green Grass, New Churches, and Ueffeln Hesepe.

Surveys

The surveys of Gehn include:

  • Kettelsberg ( 108.6 m above sea level. NN )
  • Gehn mountain ( 108.1 m)
  • Heseper mountain ( 107.9 m)
  • Frettberg ( 105.9 m)
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