At above
sea level
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,
[ of the BfN] the Große Blöße is the highest
hill
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in the
Solling-Vogler Nature Park
The Solling-Vogler Nature Park () is a nature park in South Lower Saxony in Germany. It has an area of and was established in 1966.
The nature park includes the hill ranges of the Solling and the Vogler but also the Burgberg which lies east ...
, the
Solling
The Solling () is a range of hills up to high in the Weser Uplands in the German state of Lower Saxony, whose extreme southerly foothills extend into Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Inside Lower Saxony it is the second largest range of hill ...
and the
Weser Uplands
The Weser Uplands (German: ''Weserbergland'', ) is a hill region in Germany, between Hannoversch Münden and Porta Westfalica, along the river Weser. The area reaches into three states, Lower Saxony, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia. Important ...
(
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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).
Despite its name (literal translation: 'large bareness' or 'large opening'), the summit is forested.
Geographical location
The thickly forested hill is located about (
as the crow flies
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Etymology
The meaning of the expression is attested from the early 19th century, and appeared in the Charles Dickens novel ''Oliver Twist'' (1838):
...
) 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% ...
between the villages of
Hellental to the north and
Silberborn to the south. It rises on the southeastern flank of the Helle Rift Valley (''Hellentaler Graben''), through which the River Helle flows. On the far, northwestern, side of this ''
graben
In geology, a graben () is a depression (geology), depressed block of the Crust (geology), crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
Etymology
''Graben'' is a loan word from German language, German, meaning 'ditch' or 't ...
'' is the
Großer Ahrensberg, the second highest hill in the Solling range.
Summit area
The
L 549 country road runs just past the unassuming summit of the Große Blöße through dense woods. The road runs from Dassel via
Silberborn and
Neuhaus to
Boffzen.
Photographs
File:Solling-L549_Grosse_Bloesse.jpg, The L 549 near the summit, view looking east (towards Dassel)
File:Solling-stein_grosse_bloesse.jpg, Stone near the L 549 in the summit area
References
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Hills of Lower Saxony
Northeim (district)
Solling