Rotenberg (hills)

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Rhumspringe with the Red Mountain and resin in the background

The Rotenberg is one to 317.3 m above sea level. NN high ridge of Lower Saxony's mountain country in the districts Göttingen and Osterode am Harz in the southeast part of southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

Geography

Geographical location

The aligned in a northwest-southeast direction ridge Rotenberg, who is wide about 14 km long and 2 km, located in the southeast of the Lower Saxony highlands. It is located in the southwestern Harz region approximately between Wulften the northwest, Hattorf am Harz and Pöhlde in the north, Silkerode in the east, and Rhumspringe Gieboldehausen in the south and Bilshausen in the West. Something away are Osterode am Harz in the north, Herzberg am Harz in the northeast, Bad Loud Mountain in the east, in the south Duderstadt, Northeim and Gottingen in the southwest to the northwest.

Surrounded is the Rotenberg of these altitudes and low mountain ranges: resin in the north and a bit away are both the Ohmgebirge in the southeast as well as the Göttingen Forest in the southwest.

The highest peak of Red Mountain is 317.3 meters above sea level. NN of the same name Rotenberg, the far west rises in its extreme south-eastern part of the country's border with Thuringia. The mountain range still falls relatively steeply from the northeast and southwest to Rhumetal relatively flat and with a stronger structure for Odertal. Across the border of the mountain range is in the east in the northern mountains of Eichsfeld or with Silke Roder hills in the southern foothills of the Harz over.

The Red Mountain lies on the watershed between the Oder and Beber in the north and Rhume and Eller in the south, where he is framed directly from the rivers. These rivers and small streams that originate in the mountain range belong to the catchment area of ​​a few kilometers northwest trending line.

Surveys

The surveys in and near the ridge Rotenberg include (/):

  • Rotenberg ( 317.3 m) - southeast of Pöhlde, near the border with Thuringia
  • Sliding Half ( 290.2 m) - southwest of Pöhlde
  • Heimkenberg ( 274.1 m) - south of Hattorf
  • Kethanteichskopf (about 260 m) - west of Pöhlde
  • Steinberg ( 254.6 m) - south-southeast of Hattorf
  • Roller Hauser head ( 245.3 m) - southwest of Hattorf
  • Hohewarte (241 m) - north of Wollershausen
  • Finn head (approx. 238 m ) - southeast of Pöhlde
  • Bornberg ( 237.8 m) - northeast of Rhumspringe
  • Top Röderberg (approx. 239 m ) - east of Rhumspringe
  • Bilshäuser head ( 236.3 m) - east of Bilshausen
  • Mittelberg (approx. 236 m) - northeast of Wollershausen
  • Thier houses mountain ( about 215 m) - north of Gieboldehausen

Watercourses

Among the rivers in and around the ridge of Red Mountain include:

  • Beber, rises south of Bad Lauterberg or the resin, the Rotenberg happened in the north, southeast or inflow
  • Eller arises east of Red Mountain, it happened in the south, southeast tributary of the Rhume
  • Hahle, rises near Worbis controls from the south on Red Mountain, but opens earlier in the Rhume
  • Or, originates in the southwest part of the resin, the Rotenberg happened in the north, east tributary of Rhume
  • Rhume, rises in the eastern part of the Red Mountain, it happened in the south, eastern tributary of the Leine

Towns

Among the villages on the ridge Rotenberg include:

  • Bilshausen, west of Red Mountain, Göttingen district
  • Gieboldehausen, south of Red Mountain, Göttingen district
  • Hattorf am Harz, north of Red Mountain, district of Osterode am Harz
  • Pöhlde, north of Red Mountain, district of Osterode am Harz
  • Rhumspringe, south of Red Mountain, Göttingen district
  • Silkerode, east of Red Mountain (already in neighboring Thuringia)
  • Wollershausen, south of Red Mountain, Göttingen district
  • Wulften, northwest of Red Mountain, district of Osterode am Harz

Nature Spatial allocation

The ridge Rotenberg heard in the main physiographic unit group of Lower Saxony Bergland ( number D36 ​​) or in the main unit Weser -Leine Bergland (No. 37) for natural space Eichsfelder pool (No. 374).

Special

The Rotenberg is an old border region with a medieval militia to protect the Golden Mark, of the are but no visible signs anymore. About his comb was with the Fastweg until the late Middle Ages, a trade route.

Attractions

In addition to the partially wooded landscape of Red Mountain to its attractions include the Rhumequelle (northeast of Rhumspringe ) and the sinkhole Floating island. In addition, situated on the Red Mountain just south of Pöhlde Wallburg Pöhlde as former Fliehburg, called a legend, also known as King Henry Vogelherdhöhle. At the fortification of Fastweg led by, a leading from Central Germany to the west military and trade route. Some mounds indicate a prehistoric settlement. Several ponds, which serve, among other things, the fishing industry, break up the landscape.

Hiking

The populated only at its edges Rotenberg is crossed by several hiking trails on which the partly forested landscape can be explored. Among other things, the Solling -resin cross walk, which starts and ends at the Hardegsen Rhumequelle, on the crest of Red Mountain passes.

Transport links

You can reach the Rotenberg over by the federal highways 247 and tangential to the range of hills in north- south direction, 241, which passes it to the northwest, and 27, which cuts through it in the southwest-northeast direction, branching, usually twisty and the forest area orbiting state and county roads, for example, Wulften, Pöhlde and Rhumspringe and Bilshausen together.

Buntsandstein Rhume Spring Wulften am Harz Eller (Rhume) Hahle (Rhume)
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