Wesergebirge
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The Wesergebirge (also known in German as the Weserkette[1]) is a low mountain chain up to 326.1 m above sea level (NN)[2] high in the Weser Uplands in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
The thickly wooded Wesergebirge ridge is one of the northern outliers of the German Central Uplands on the southern edge of the North German Plain and forms part of the TERRA.vita Nature Park in the west and Weser Uplands Schaumburg-Hameln Nature Park in the east.
The Wesergebirge is widely known because of Schaumburg castle, which stands on the Nesselberg (ca. 225 m above NN) in the Schaumburg district of the town of Rinteln, and is the emblem of the Schaumburger Land.
Hills
The Wesergebirge is characterised by about two dozen hills that are arranged one after another in a ridge and which reach a height of 326.1 m above NN at the Möncheberg in the east. In its centre section, west of the A 2 motorway, they reach a maximum height of 278 m with the Wülpker Egge and a height of 235.2 m at the westernmost hill of the Wesergebirge, the Jakobsberg, which is located east of Porta Westfalica and on which the Jakobsberg transmission tower stands.
The hills and elevations of the Wesergebirge, as seen from west to east, are given below together with their heights in metres above Normalnull (NN; the height of the highest peak is shown in bold)[2] :
Literature
Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumforschung: Geographische Landesaufnahme 1:200000. Naturräumliche Gliederung Deutschlands. Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 85 Minden. Bad Godesberg 1959
External links
Luftbild Westliches Wesergebirge bei Google Maps [1]
Aktionsgemeinschaft Weserbergland [2]
References
- ^ "Ein anderes Bild als die Bergländer der oberen Weser bieten die Weserkette, das Wiehengebirge und der Teutoburger Wald, siehe Christian Degn, u. a. (Hrsg.) Seydlitz, 1. Teil, das deutsche Vaterland, wir und die Welt, 7. Aufl., Kiel, Hannover, 1954, S. 50