At the Griesberg near

Bad Salzdetfurth is a town on the banks of the River Lamme in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The municipality includes the town itself, and 12 civil parishes (''Ortsteile'') which were incorporated in 1974: * Bodenburg * Brein ...

in the Lower Saxon county of

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Lei ...

is the highest

hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct Summit (topography), summit. Terminology The distinction between a hill and a mountain is unclear and largely subjective, but a hill is universally con ...

in the

Hildesheim Forest The Hildesheim Forest (german: Hildesheimer Wald) is a range of hills up to in the district of Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony. Geography The Hildesheim Forest is located in the Innerste Uplands, part of the Lower Saxon Hills ...

, a small range of the

Innerste Uplands The Innerste Uplands (german: Innerstebergland) is a landscape region up to 359 m high and covering an area of over 900 km² in the northern part of the German Central Uplands. It lies within the eastern part of the Weser-Leine Uplands ...

Geography

Location

The Griesberg is located in the southeast of the Hildesheim Forest between the town of

to the east and the village of Petze to the southwest in the east of the municipality of

Sibbesse Sibbesse is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km south of Hildesheim. Since 1 November 2016, the former municipalities Adenstedt, Almstedt, Eberholzen and ...

. Its summit region is on the territory of

Almstedt Almstedt is a village and a former municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in E ...

, parts of the eastern and southern hillside are in the borough of Bad Salzdetfurth and other areas of the southwestern flank lie in the territory of Sibbesse. Southeast of the hill the Klusbach flows in a westerly direction into the

Lamme Lamme is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Innerste near Bad Salzdetfurth. In 1945 the river was crossed by Allied Forces. See also *List of rivers of Lower Saxony All rivers in the German state of Lower Saxony flow directly ...

and to the northwest is the ''Kalte Beuster'', a right-hand headstream of the

Beuster Beuster is a village and a former municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in E ...

Natural regional classification

The Griesberg is part of the

natural region A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate. From the ecology, ecological point of view, the naturally occurring fl ...

al major unit group of the

Weser-Leine Uplands The Lower Saxon Hills (german: Niedersächsisches Bergland) are one of the 73 natural regions in Germany defined by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). Geographically it covers roughly the same area as the Weser Uplands (german: Weserb ...

(No. 37), the major unit of the

(379), the sub-unit of the Hildesheim Upland (379.0) and the natural region of the

(379.01).

Sibbesse Transmission Tower

In 1973 the 130-metre-high Sibbesse Transmission Tower (''Fernmeldeturm Sibbesse'') was built on the Griesberg. It is not open to the public. It acts as a non-public microwave link and broadcasts radio programmes to the surrounding area.

Transport and walking

The ''

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'') are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads t ...

'' 490 runs from north-to-south past the Griesberg to the west through

. In

Östrum Östrum is a village in the southern part of the town of Bad Salzdetfurth in Lower Saxony, Germany. The L 490 state road runs through the village crossing with the L493. Its immediate neighbours are the villages of Breinum to the west and Bo ...

, the L 482 branches off and runs mainly northwestwards through Breinum,

Segeste Almstedt is a village and a former municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in E ...

and Petze to

. Both roads are starting points for walks over the hill along forest tracks and paths to the hill. {{German Central Uplands Hills of Lower Saxony Hildesheim (district)