Hümmling

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The Hümmling ( Homelinghen of hömil = small stone ) is an up to 73 m above sea level. NN high ground moraine ( moraine ) in Emsland in Lower Saxony in the west and the north German lowlands.

Geographical Location

The Hümmling located in the northern Emsland and has a distance of nearly 10 km to the Ems. Its incidence is from north to south and 28 km east-west in about 14 km. From the north end, there are nearly 30 km to Leer in East Frisia. The south end is Stavern. The highest peak, called Wind Mountain, lies (22 km north-east of Meppen) and Boerger little east of Werpeloh between Soegel. The largest rivers are the springing on Hümmling Ohe, which flows north to the Sater Ems and the Nordradde which opens at Meppen in the Ems. The Hümmling the only partly attributable Südradde opens into the rabbit.

To the north of the Hümmling stands sharply against the marsh area around Sater Ems and Leda, south it runs smoothly from the Hasetal. To the east close Geest areas of lesser height to Thülsfelder dam. The landscape framework plan of the district of Emsland, it expects to county boundary at Marka and Mittelradde the Hümmling up with. These include the almost entirely agricultural Glümmel and east of it, the forest area of Quäkenberg, Langenberg, Eleonore and forest -Hertogenbosch, and south of the Wehmer heath and heather Breitlahner.

Politically, the Hümmling is now distributed mainly on three joint communities in the district of Emsland. The largest part belongs to Samtgemeinde Soegel, the northern edge of the velvet municipality Nordhümmling, the north-east around the village Lorup to Samtgemeinde Werlte; the villages and village Neubörger Wippingen which belong to Samtgemeinde Dorpen, Lähden that is part of the velvet municipality Heart Lake is, now belonging to Loeningen Wachtum and Friesoyther Districts Gehlenberg and Neuvrees are still part of the Hümmling.

Geology and landscape

As usual for Geest landscapes, Hümmling consists mainly of infertile sandy soils. The most undulating regions are almost entirely covered with forest. In between there were also heaths, but which are now largely given way to intensive agriculture. In the shallower eastern and southern parts of the territory agricultural use predominates in no small proportion of forest here. On the south side there are small, enclosed by Geest, vermoorte sinks that doses as above. This includes the Bockholter box, a small, largely semi-natural raised bog complex.

The Hümmling was formed by glaciers in the last glacial period, the Saale glaciation. As glaciers move, they carry debris with it. When melting the hills of Hümmling remained. Many megalithic monuments more or less well preserved prove that the hills Hümmling inhabited continuously since Neolithic times.

During the last centuries of the Holy Roman Empire was under the Hümmling as the main part of the Emsland to 1803 the low pin Münster. Therefore is the hunting lodge Clemenswerth at Soegel one of the most important works of the Westphalian Baroque in Hümmling. 1803 was the Hümmling to the Duke of Arenberg, as compensation for the loss of his possessions on the left bank to France. From 1810 to 1814 the Hümmling part of France and then of the Kingdom of Hanover, which fell in 1866 to Prussia. Since the Hümmling thus distinguished that the farmers of the region were all free, it was also called the Free Hümmling. After the Emsland had come by the Congress of Vienna to the Kingdom of Hanover, an office district is named based in Soegel after Hümmling. After the annexation of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia this office has been extended to the district Hümmling Hümmling, which existed until 1932.

Attractions

Transport links

You can reach the Hümmling on state and county roads that branch off from these main roads: the 70 in the West, which the west passes through the landscape, leading 402 south past her, the 401 north past the Hümmling, the 213 which leads southeast past him, and the 72 that happened it northeast. The nearest railway station is Lathen at the Emsland line cathedral north dike. The railway track from Lathen on Soegel after Werlte was adjusted.

Surveys

Among the surveys and land parcels in Hümmling and its vicinity include (Height in meters above sea level):

• Lüttker sand ( 72 m ) - northeast of Werpeloh
• Sunderberg (66 m) - south of Börger
• Kreuzberg ( 51 m ) - north of Stavern
• Windelberg (49 m) - northwest of Börger
• High catches ( 43 m ) - west of Werpeloh
• Harrenstätter sand ( 42 m) - between Lorup and Spahnharrenstätte
• Wahld height ( 41 m ) - west of Soegel
• Galenberg (40 m) - in Stavern
• Hamberg (about 40 m) - between Lathen and Soegel
• Varel (approx. 39m ) - southwest of Vrees

• Marka, rises in Hümmling, east of Werlte right source Bach promised the Ems, which flows into the Leda
• Promised Ems, arises north of Friesoythe - Neuscharrel by the confluence of Marka and Ohe

Among the villages in and around the Hümmling include:

• Börger

• Wehm
• Werlte
• Wieste