The Schadenbeeksköpfe are two summits on a southeastern outlier of the
Aschentalshalbe
The Aschentalshalbe is a ridge in the Harz Mountains of Germany that is up to . It lies south of the village of Sieber (Herzberg am Harz), Sieber in the unincorporated area of Harz (Landkreis Osterode am Harz), Harz in the district of Landkreis GÃ ...
in the
Harz Mountains
The Harz (), also called the Harz Mountains, is a Mittelgebirge, 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 nam ...
of Germany, about 3.6 kilometres southeast of
Sieber in the district of
Göttingen
Göttingen (, ; ; ) 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. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
in
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...
. Their highest peak is 605 metres above sea level. In addition they separate the
Schadenbeek stream, after which they were named, from the upper
Krumme Lutter. About 1 kilometre east of the Schadenbeeksköpfe lies the Wolkenhügel Pit (''Grube Wolkenhügel''), in the valley of the Krumme Lutter, which closed in June 2007. A refuge hut not far from the Schadenbeeksköpfe is a checkpoint (no. 153) in the
Harzer Wandernadel
The Harzer Wandernadel is a system of hiking awards in the Harz mountains in central Germany. Hikers (or mountain bikers) can earn awards at different levels of challenge by walking to the various checkpoints in the network and stamping their ...
hiking badge system.
Woods
Today the upper slopes of the Schadenbeeksköpfe are mainly covered by spruce whilst, lower down, deciduous woods also occur. In the year 1596 they were still completely covered by beech.
[Ina Begemann: ''Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte von Umwelt und Besiedlung im südwestlichen Harzvorland (unter Einbeziehung geochemischer Befunde)'', Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, Göttingen 2003, page 46]
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Sources
* Topographische Karte 1:25000, Nr. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz
References
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Hills of the Harz
Hills of Lower Saxony
Göttingen (district)