The Thüster Berg is a ridge, up to ,
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Lower Saxon Hills The Lower Saxon Hills () 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 () in its wider sense.However at least one sour ...

in central

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. It is situated in the districts of

Hameln-Pyrmont Hameln-Pyrmont is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Schaumburg, Hanover, Hildesheim and Holzminden, and by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Lippe) ...

and

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...

in the federal state of

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Location

The Thüster Berg lies within a triangle formed by the villages of Eime,

Duingen Duingen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km southwest of Hildesheim, and 40 km south of Hanover. Since 1 November 2016, the former municipalities Co ...

and

Salzhemmendorf Salzhemmendorf is a village and a municipality in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km east of Hamelin and 31 km west of Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, ...

in the western half of the

Leine Uplands The Leine Uplands (, ) is a region in Germany's Central Uplands which forms a part of the Lower Saxon Hills and lies along the River Leine between Göttingen and Hanover. It borders on the Weser Uplands in the west, the Innerste Uplands in th ...

, which itself is in the northern part of the

. It is about long and its highest peak is the Kanstein. It lies between Hemmendorf and Oldendorf in the north, Ahrenfeld, Deilmissen and Deinsen in the south,

Marienhagen Marienhagen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 November 2016, it is part of the municipality Duingen Duingen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lo ...

in the southeast,

Weenzen Weenzen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 November 2016, it is part of the municipality Duingen. As of 2025, it has approximately 380 residents. Long-standing businesses based ...

and Thüste in the south, Levedagsen and the Domäne Eggersen in the west and the village of Salzhemmendorf to the northwest. North of the Thüster Berg is the Osterwald, to the east the Külf, to the southeast the

Duinger Berg The Duinger Berg is a hill range, up to , in the Lower Saxon Hills and the district of Landkreis Hildesheim, Landkreis in the German state of Lower Saxony. Location The Duinger Berg lies in the western part of the Leine Uplands, a northern sec ...

and to the west the

Ith The Ith () is a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands which is up to 439 m high. It lies about 40 km southwest of Hanover and, at 22 kilometers, is the longest line of crags in North Germany. Geography Location The Ith is i ...

. The River

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, a southwestern

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of the

Leine The Leine (; Old Saxon ''Lagina'') is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Aller and the Weser and is long. The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia. About downriver ...

flows to the west and north of the ridge. Its northwestern part belongs to the Weser Uplands Schaumburg-Hamelin Nature Park. The B 1 federal highway runs past the Thüster Berg to the north and the B 240 to the southeast.

Geology and landscape

The Thüster Berg is an upfold of Thüster limestone. On its steeply sloping northern flanks there are several

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

crags, mostly hidden in forest, which have names such as ''Eckturm'', ''Dreckturm'', ''Falkenturm'' and ''Liebesnadel'' (literally: "Corner Tower", "Mud Tower", "Falcon Tower" and "Needle of Love"). The rock ledge of the ''Eckturm'' () juts out of the forest towards the northwest below the summit of the Kanstein and forms a natural observation platform. There are disused limestone

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on the southwestern side of the ridge. The Thüster Berg is densely wooded, especially with stands of deciduous trees. Amongst the species of tree that thrive here are

birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 3 ...

and

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. ''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...

Towers

On the Kanstein, the main summit () of the Thüster Berg, stands an observation tower, known as the Löns Tower (''Lönsturm'', ) and about 1 km further east-southeast is a

telecommunication tower Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-m ...

().

Walking

Numerous forest tracks run over the Thüster Berg. One of them runs over the crest of the ridge from Salzhemmendorf to Marienhagen past the ''Eckturm'', Löns Tower and telecommunication tower.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thuster Berg Central Uplands Ridges of Lower Saxony Regions of Lower Saxony Hildesheim (district) Hameln-Pyrmont Natural regions of the Weser-Leine Uplands