Giesen Hills

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The Giesener mountains at Giesen and Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, one to 242.5 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the Inner Uplands in Lower Saxony Bergland.

Most often, with ( The ) Giesener mountains only the northern part of the landscape called, which lies directly south of the eponymous town of Giesen. The same natural space but is much larger.

Geography

Location

The Giesener mountains are located in the extreme north of the Inner Uplands. They join north to the to 358.9 m high Hildesheimer forest and strive by the local Hildesheimer districts Hildesheimer forest and Marienrode west past the districts Neuhof, Moritzberg and Himmelsthür and east past Hildesheim Sorsum and Giesen - Emmerke northbound to the village Giesen, the nucleus of the community Giesen. To the east of the approximately 10.5 km long ridge falls to the heart from which flows past the leader close to that in the south-north direction, and to the northwest gradually to the line that extends approximately 7 km away in the same direction. In the area of ​​Osterberg's earlier was the training area Hildesheim.

Nature Spatial allocation

The Giesener mountains form the natural spatial feature unit group Weser -Leine Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Innerste England (379) and in the subunit Hildesheimer Bergland ( 379.0 ) the natural environment Giesener mountains ( 379.00 ), where the landscape towards the south in the natural environment goes Hildesheimer Wald ( 379.01 ), and to the southeast in the natural environment Malbork hill country ( 379.03 ). In the north and east joins in the Braunschweig- Hildesheim Lößbörde (520 ) subunit Hildesheimer Lößbörde ( 520.3 ), and west is located in Hildesheim Forest Foreland ( 521.2 ) of the natural space Roessinger Lößhügel ( 521.20 ).

Surveys

Among the surveys of Giesener Mountains - sorted by height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL; unless otherwise called out loud):

  • Lerchenberg ( 242.5 m), with the Rottsberg ( max. 220 m), at Neuhof
  • Finkenberg ( 222.5 m), with Feuerknäul ( 220.1 m ) in Sorsum
  • Osterberg (approx. 181 m ), at Himmelsthür
  • Gallberg ( about 156 m), at Moritzberg

Towns

Villages on the mountains are Giesener (such as in south-north direction considered ):

  • Hildesheimer Wald ( Hildesheim ), south
  • Neuhof (Hildesheim ), southeast
  • Sorsum (Hildesheim ), west
  • Moritzberg (Hildesheim ), east
  • Emmerke ( Giesen ), west
  • Himmelsthür (Hildesheim ), east
  • Giesen, north

Reserves

On the northern part of the Giesener Mountains Nature Reserve ( NSG) Long Dreisch and Osterberg is ( CDDA-Nr. 555546; 2011 reported; 2.45 km ² ) to the north, the NSG Giesener ponds ( CDDA-Nr. 163243; 1984; connect 37 ha), 11 ha) and east of the NSG pole mountain and Innersteaue ( CDDA-Nr. 163 919 in 1939. And then north-northeast because the NSG Gallberg ( CDDA-Nr. 81710, 1976, 42 ha) in the southern part of the NSG Finkenberg / Lerchenberg is (2.57 km ² CDDA-Nr. 329374; ; 2004). In the north, the scenery, the landscape protection area ( LSG ) Giesener mountains and ponds ( CDDA-Nr. 321077; 1967; 1.3 km ²) and in the south are spatially separate regions of the LSG Gallberg, Finkenberg and Lerchenberg ( CDDA-Nr. 320950 and in 1968, 1.01 km ² ) and the LSG Rottsberghang ( CDDA-Nr. 323996; 1992, 1.29 km ²). Moreover lies on the ridge, the differentiated into a northern and southern part Fauna-Flora -Habitat area Haseder Busch, Giesener mountains, Gallberg, Finkenberg ( FFH-Nr. 3825-301; 7.42 km ²) and to the south the landscape parts of the bird sanctuary Hildesheimer Wald ( VSG-Nr. 3825-401; 12.47 km ²).

Transport and Hiking

Just east passing by the northern part of the Giesener Mountains - roughly parallel to the innermost and beyond this - a section of national road 6th These crosses in Hildesheim, the Federal Highway 1, the west leads from there to the mountain range and through the midsection after Emmerke. There branches off the main road 460 to the south, passing the southern part of the landscape leads west to the district of Hildesheim, Hildesheim Forest. Of these roads branch off a couple of county roads and other small streets, which open up the ridge with. The ridge can be hiked on many field and forest paths.

References and Notes

  • Mountains in Europe
  • Mountains in Germany
  • Forest area in Lower Saxony
  • Forest area in Europe
  • Geography ( Hildesheim )
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