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Adlersberg (Thuringian Forest)
{{Infobox mountain , name = Adlersberg , photo = , photo_caption = , elevation = {{Höhe, 593.2, link=false ({{convert, 593.2, m, ft, disp=output only, abbr=on) , elevation_ref = , isolation = 0.65 kmAschentalshalbe , isolation_ref = , prominence = 53 mAschentalshalbe , prominence_ref = , range = Harz mountains , location = South of Sieber in Göttingen district in Lower Saxony , map = Germany Lower Saxony , map_image = , coordinates = {{coord, 51.68306, N, 10.41972, E, type:mountain_region:DE-NI_scale:100000, format=dms, display=inline,title , range_coordinates = , coordinates_ref = The Adlersberg is a hill in the Harz mountains of central Germany that lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 593.2 m high and is situated west of the Aschentalshalbe. It also separates the valley of ''Breitental'' ("wide valley") with its river, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aschentalshalbe
The Aschentalshalbe is a ridge in the Harz Mountains of Germany that is up to . It lies south of the village of Sieber in the unincorporated area of Harz in the district of Göttingen in the state of Lower Saxony. Name The Aschentalshalbe was named after the ''Aschental'' ("Aschen valley"), a southern branch of the ''Tiefenbeekstal'' ("Tiefenbeek valley"), through which the Tiefenbeek flows. Geography Location The Aschentalshalbe lies in the Upper Harz within the Harz Nature Park about 2 km southeast of Sieber, a village northeast of Herzberg am Harz. It rises between the Gropenbornskopf to the north, the Koboltstaler Köpfe to the northeast with their outlier, the ''Gödeckenkopf'', to the east, the Schadenbeeksköpfe to the southeast, the Übelsberg to the south, the Großer Knollen to the south-southwest, the Pagelsburg to the southwest, the Adlersberg to the west and the Breitentalskopf to the northwest. Watershed The watershed between the Sieber to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harz Mountains
The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German word ''Hardt'' or ''Hart'' (hill forest). The name ''Hercynia'' derives from a Celtic name and could refer to other mountain forests, but has also been applied to the geology of the Harz. The Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz with an elevation of above sea level. The Wurmberg () is the highest peak located entirely within the state of Lower Saxony. Geography Location and extent The Harz has a length of , stretching from the town of Seesen in the northwest to Eisleben in the east, and a width of . It occupies an area of , and is divided into the Upper Harz (''Oberharz'') in the northwest, which is up to 800 m high, apart from the 1,100 m high Brocken massif, and the Lower Harz (''Unterharz'') in the east which is up to aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sieber (Herzberg Am Harz)
Sieber is a village in the borough of Herzberg am Harz in the district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony (Germany). Sieber lies at a height of 340 m above sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ... and has about 600 inhabitants (1 October 2006). The settlement is spread out over a length of several kilometres in a narrow valley, running from east to west, through which the river of the same name flows. A tributary of the Sieber, the Goldenke, joins it in the village. Sieber has a Protestant church, St. Benedict, in which concerts also take place. History Sieber was a home to the mining industry, but also to ancillary industries such as grinding shops. Furthermore, forestry had been an important employer for several centuries. Until the mid-1980s pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göttingen District
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The origins of Göttingen lay in a village called ''Gutingi, ''first mentioned in a document in 953 AD. The city was founded northwest of this village, between 1150 and 1200 AD, and adopted its name. In Middle Ages, medieval times the city was a member of the Hanseatic League and hence a wealthy town. Today, Göttingen is famous for its old university (''Georgia Augusta'', or University of Göttingen, "Georg-August-Universität"), which was founded in 1734 (first classes in 1737) and became the most visited university of Europe. In 1837, seven professors protested against the absolute sovereignty of the House of Hanover, kings of Kingdom of Hanover, Hanover; they lost their positions, but be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon and Saterland Frisian are still spoken, albeit in declining numbers. Lower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, , Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony, one being the city of Bremen, the other its seaport, Bremerhaven (which is a semi-enclave, as it has a coastline). Lower Saxony thus borders more neighbours than any other single '. The state's largest cities are state capital Hanover, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lüneburg, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Hildesheim, Salzgitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landkreis Göttingen
In all German states, except for the three city states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a ''Gemeinde'' (municipality) is the (official term in all but two states) or (official term in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein). Most major cities in Germany are not part of any ''Kreis'', but instead combine the functions of a municipality and a ''Kreis''; such a city is referred to as a (literally "district-free city"; official term in all but one state) or (literally "urban district"; official term in Baden-Württemberg). ''(Land-)Kreise'' stand at an intermediate level of administration between each German state (, plural ) and the municipal governments (, plural ) within it. These correspond to level-3 administrative units in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 3). Previously, the similar title ( Imperial Circle) referred to groups of states in the Holy Roman Empire. The related term was used for similar admi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiefenbeek
Tiefenbeek (also Breitentalbach) is a small river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Sieber in the village Sieber. See also *List of rivers of Lower Saxony All rivers in the German state of Lower Saxony flow directly or indirectly into the North Sea. A–Z A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P * Purrmühlenbach R S T * Tiefenbeek * Trillkebach * Trutenbeek * Twiste U * Uffe * Ulrich ... Rivers of Lower Saxony Rivers of Germany {{LowerSaxony-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kloppstert
The Kloppstert is a hill, roughly 553 metres high, in the southwestern Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the topographical map printed in 1978 it can only be made out with difficulty that the third letter is an ''o'' and the penultimate one an ''r''. Unfortunately a contour line runs over the letter ''r'' so that it looks like a ''p''. In the digitalised 1:25,000 topographic map, the hill is wrongly named as the ''Klappstept''. Geography The hill lies about 1 kilometre south of Sieber, 570 metres east of the Fissenkenkopf and 370 metres northwest of the Adlersberg. Other hills of the same name lie in the Harz near Lerbach and near Badenhausen as well as in the Solling hills southwest of Dassel Dassel is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district Northeim. It is located near the hills of the Solling mountains. Geography The city covers an area of . Buildings and streets make up about 10% of this area while 26% a ....Topographi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fissenkenkopf
The Fissenkenkopf is a hill in the Harz Mountains of Germany, that rises south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 527 metres high and is the western extension of the Adlersberg and the Kloppstert The Kloppstert is a hill, roughly 553 metres high, in the southwestern Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the topographical map printed in 1978 it can only be made out with difficulty that the third letter is an ''o'' and the penultimate one a ... hills. Sources * Topographic map 1:25,000 series, No. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz Hills of the Harz Mountains of Lower Saxony Osterode am Harz {{Göttingen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pagelsburg
The Pagelsburg is a hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, which lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is Measurement with a barometric altimeter using as a reference point the nearby point 523.0 m from this map: and lies 1.2 km south of the Adlersberg, 0.9 kilometres east of the Höxterberg and 1.0 kilometre northwest of the Großer Knollen The Großer Knollen (also the Groß Knollen; colloquially referred to as the Knollen, historically the ''Grosze Knolle'') is a mountain in the southwestern part of the Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The Großer Knollen is located nor .... Literature *Kurt Mohr: ''Sammlung Geologischer Führer Band 58'', Harz Westlicher Teil, 5th edition, Stuttgart 1998, , pages 146-147 References Hills of the Harz Hills of Lower Saxony {{Göttingen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Höxterberg
The Höxterberg is a hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, that lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 584 metres high and lie 0.9 kilometres west of the Pagelsburg, 1.5 kilometres south of the Fissenkenkopf, 1.8 km west of the Großer Knollen The Großer Knollen (also the Groß Knollen; colloquially referred to as the Knollen, historically the ''Grosze Knolle'') is a mountain in the southwestern part of the Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The Großer Knollen is located nor ... and 1 kilometre north of the Mittelecke. The hill is mostly covered by beech woods. Towards the northwest the Höxterberg transitions into the Steile Wand. Sources * Topographische Karte 1:25000, Nr. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz Hills of the Harz Hills of Lower Saxony {{Göttingen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Knollen
The Großer Knollen (also the Groß Knollen; colloquially referred to as the Knollen, historically the ''Grosze Knolle'') is a mountain in the southwestern part of the Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The Großer Knollen is located northeast of Herzberg am Harz and Scharzfeld, northwest of Bad Lauterberg im Harz and south of the hamlet of Sieber. It is surrounded by several other mountains and hills that range in height between 550 and 650 m above mean sea level. Just under 1 km away to the southwest the Kleiner Knollen rises to a height of 631 m. Geology The Großer Knollen is a porphyritic volcano. When climbing the mountain walkers can see to the side of the path in places the reddish colouring in the rock that is due to the volcanic rock, porphyry. About 800 metres east of the Großer Knollen is the ''Knollengrube'' ("Knollen Pit"), in which iron ore was mined in 1925. Observation tower From the roughly 20 m high observation tower, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
