Innerste Uplands
The Innerste England is a 900 km ² and up to 358.9 m above sea level. NHN high landscape in the northern part of the Central German Uplands and the eastern part of the Weser -Leine Uplands in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).
The name derives from the Innerste England is the innermost, a tributary of the leash.
Geography
Location
The Innerste England extends in the catchment area of the innermost southeast of Hildesheim and south-west or south of Salzgitter up to Goslar and Seesen on the northwestern edge of the resin. In the north, bordering the landscape at the Hildesheimer Borde, on the west by the Leinebergland and to the southeast by the Northern Harz mountains. In its center and in the south there is the Ambergau, a lowland landscape of the flats, a tributary to the core. The valley with the main towns Sibbesse, floor castle and Lamspringe, between the Hildesheimer forest in the north-east and the foothills and the bag forest in the southwest, is called Flenithigau.
In and near the edge of the Inner Uplands are these clearly definable ranges of hills, which are mostly made up of layer levels and partially located on the border to neighboring landscapes (viewed in alphabetical order): Giesener mountains, Hainberg Harplage, Heber, Hildesheimer forest, Salzgitter ridge ( with light mountains ), and Sauberge Vorholz. Between these mountain ranges run this river: Intimate, Lamme, Neile and Nice, as well as their tributaries.
Landscape
The hills of the Inner Uplands are mostly covered with deciduous forest, especially beech forests. The rivers run in the hilly, heavily loess-covered plains, including the basin-like Ambergau heard. The fertile soils are heavily used for agricultural economy. Part of the scenery also includes the now largely disused and partly water-filled quarries or open pit mines, in which was mined since the Middle Ages Keuper Sandstone.
Hills and mountains
For Innerste England, whose highest peak is 358.9 meters high Griesberg in the Hildesheim Forest, has eight ridges - by height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ) by:
- Hildesheimer Wald ( 358.9 m)
- Salzgitter ridge ( 322.9 m) with light mountains ( 254.2 m)
- Sauberge (317 m)
- Lift ( 314 m)
- Hainberg (299 m)
- Harplage ( 290.1 m)
- Vorholz (243 m)
- Giesener mountains ( 162.6 m)
Watercourses
Among the rivers of the Inner Uplands include:
- Alme - in the West, the inflow Riehe
- Beuster - in the Northwest, tributary of the innermost
- Innermost - in the north, northeast and east, tributary of the Leine
- Lamme - in the West, tributary of the innermost
- Neile - in the southeastern center, tributary of the innermost
- Nice - in the center ( Ambergau ), tributary of the innermost
- Riehe - in the West, tributary of the Lamb
Towns
In Innerste England and at its edge are, among others, these towns:
- Hildesheim
- Langelsheim
- Lamspringe
- Lutter am Barenberg
- Salzgitter