Leine Uplands
The Leinebergland is a hilly region in the Lower Saxony mountain country along the line between Göttingen and Hanover. It is bordered to the west by the Weser Uplands, on the northeast by the Innerste England, on the east by the resin and to the southeast by the Untereichsfeld.
Geography
The Leinebergland which the Weser mountain country to the east and the resin abdacht to the west, is not strictly in accordance with natural spatial aspects defined landscape, however, follows a relatively simple structure. Its course is aimed mainly after the eponymous river from south to north and immediately east and west adjacent mountain ranges.
In a north-south direction can be roughly divided into the hill country shaped by the very broad line trench south along the middle reaches and the northern part of the lower reaches of the river.
Landscapes on both sides of the trench line
From Friedland Göttingen and Northeim up to Einbeck the line flows through the trench line ( line - Ilme Valley ), a major north-south oriented geological structure grave. On mountain heights along the Leine valley, there are many castles that controlled the lying in the valley north-south road link during the Middle Ages and were able to block.
Southeast of the Leinebergland to the trench extends to the right of the embossed red sandstone and limestone plateau of the Göttingen- Northeim forest, its western escarpment ranges ( north ) of Friedland Göttingen and Norten -Hardenberg to Northeim. Here is the largest group of rock shelters in Central Europe. They often find themselves in a confined space in the gorge-like rocky valleys between the line and the calibration field. In an area of about 30 km in length and six to ten miles wide today around 1,600 shelters are covered. The forest (mostly beech woods ) is used heavily forested.
This landscape goes north through the forested also largely cuesta and fracture Scholl landscape of southwestern Harz mountains, where there are next to sandstone and limestone also Jurakalke. Just north of Einbeck reached by Hube foothills of the southwestern Harz mountains and the left side line and " locked" the linen trench to the north.
Links of the trench is the last two landscapes compared to the intensively farmed Solling foothills.
Commonly are not expected to Leinebergland the extreme east of the south-western Harz mountains and the extreme north-west of the foreland to the Solling Vogler.
The Alfelder Bergland
After the trench line has been closed and the Hube is bathed right side, the river crosses the parallel running through the narrow sequence in northwest-southeast direction ridges and valleys characterized Alfelder Bergland (Ith - Hils - Bergland ).
East of up to 480 m high, the eponymous Massive of Ith and Hils fall, the mountain ranges on both sides of the line to the steep river valley and down from zertalt by various tributaries. In the high altitude beech forests dominate, while the sinks are used for agricultural purposes.
Large parts of the landscape are protected. In addition to the mesophilic beech and ravine forests are found in the mountain ranges to the right of the line in particular worthy of protection Kalktrockenhangwälder, dry grass, dry bushes and mesophilic grassland.
In Gronau Leine finally leaves the Leinebergland while the Low Mountain Range in the shape of a funnel located to the North German lowland opening towards Valley of Calenberger Lössbörde that abuts the west to the Calenberger mountains and east to the Innerste England with the Hildesheim Forest.
Biogeophysical main units
The landscapes of Leinebergland be assigned to the following main units, its digits D of the old division into main unit groups (two digits) and main units (three digits ), while the new main unit group D 36 still includes two other ancient groups.
- D 36 Lower Saxony Bergland 37 Weser -Leine Bergland 377 Alfelder Bergland (Ith - Hils Highlands )
- 371 Solling foreshore (excluding the extreme north- west with the Vogler )
- 372 Leash Ilme Valley
- 376 Southwestern Harz foothills (without the extreme east )
- 373 Goettingen - Northeim forest
Ridges
The following mountain ranges are counted for Leinebergland ( approximately from north to south ):
Cities
Cities in the Leine valley ( from north to south ):
- Elze
- Gronau (Leine)
- Alfeld (Leine)
- Einbeck
- Northeim
- Göttingen
Other cities in Leinebergland: