The Bückeberg (; 160 m) is a hill that lies south of Hamelin on the eastern perimeter of the Weser village of

Hagenohsen Emmerthal is a municipality in the Hameln-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weser, approximatively 6 km south of Hameln. Its seat is in the village Kirchohsen. In 1973, the Emmerthal was formed by mer ...

which is on the right-hand, eastern bank of the

River Weser The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports of B ...

in central Germany. The crest and the other slopes of the Bückeberg are covered with

mixed forest Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions. These fo ...

. From the Weser village of Latferde further south a local road runs over the Bückeberg to Hagenohsen. From 1933 to 1937 the

Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival The Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival (german: Das Reichserntedankfest, links=no) was a monumental Nazi German celebration of the peasantry and the German farmers. The festivals ran from 1933 to 1937 on the Bückeberg, a hill near the town of ...

held by the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

s took place on a large, artificially-levelled field on the western side of the Bückeberg. The municipality of

Emmerthal Emmerthal is a municipality in the Hameln-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weser, approximatively 6 km south of Hameln. Its seat is in the village Kirchohsen. In 1973, the Emmerthal was formed by mer ...

has put forward a land use plan for the terrain of the Reich harvest festival.Land use map proposed by Emmerthal
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Hills of Lower Saxony Thingplatz Hameln-Pyrmont {{HamelinPyrmont-geo-stub