The Haferberg is a hill, ,
in the

Kaufungen Forest The Kaufungen Forest (german: Kaufunger Wald) is a range of steep, wooded hills straddling the border between the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony in central Germany. It takes its name from the town Kaufungen. The hills lie in the fork of the Rive ...

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and

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 ...

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Geography

The densely wooded Haferberg, which is the highest hill in the Münden Nature Park, is located on the border of north

( Werra-Meißner district) and

south Lower Saxony South Lower Saxony (german: Südniedersachsen) refers to the southern part of the German federal state of Lower Saxony. The region so described is neither historically nor geographically clearly defined to the north within Lower Saxony. It cuts acr ...

(

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, t ...

), 1.25 km northwest of the pass of Umschwang, around 4.5 km east of Nieste and just under 4 km (all distances

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) west of Kleinalmerode. On the crooked state border in the area of the Haferberg, north Hesse is to the northeast and south Lower Saxony to the west; its summit rises around 40 m west of the line on the Lower Saxon side. Along this border runs part of boundary between the Meißner-Kaufungen Forest Nature Park (Hesse) with the neighbouring Münden Nature Park (Lower Saxony) to its north, the summit belonging to the latter. No roads lead to the peak of the Haferberg, but it may be reached, for example by walking from the Umschwang () along the Frau Holle Path. Southeast and on the far side of this pass the path leads up to the hill of Mühlenstein ({{Höhe, 607.2, DE-NN).

Watersheds

The Haferberg is on the

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between the river

Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. History ...

to the west and river

Werra The Werra (), a river in central Germany, is the right-bank headwater of the Weser. "Weser" is a synonym in an old dialect of German. The Werra has its source near Eisfeld in southern Thuringia. After the Werra joins the river Fulda in the t ...

to the northeast. The Rautenbach rises on the northern side of the hill and the Hungershäuser Bach to the southeast, near the Umschwang; both are western tributaries of the Werra. The Wengebach rises southeast of the hill, also near the Umschwang, and to the west, the Endschlagbach, which are eastern and northern feeders respectively of the Fulda tributary, the Nieste.

References

Hills of Hesse Kassel (district) Göttingen (district) Hills of Lower Saxony