Wesergebirge

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 Schaumburger Land.

Hills

The Wesergebirge is a chain of 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 at 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)^[2] :

Jakobsberg (235,2 m), with Jakobsberg transmission tower, Schlageter Monument and Porta Kanzel; north-northeast of the village of Porta Westfalica by the Porta Westfalica
Königsberg (ca. 225 m); northeast of Porta Westfalica
Roter Brink (ca. 225 m), with Nammer Lager; south-southwest of Nammen
Lohfelder Berg (215,2 m); northeast of Lohfeld
Nammer Klippe (248,8 m); nature reserve; south of Nammen
Nammer Kopf (266,3 m), with the Nammer Klippe, nature reserve; south-southeast of Nammen
Wülpker Egge (ca. 278 m), with a quarry; south of Wülpke
Rote Klippe (ca. 220 m), with a quarry; south of Kleinenbremen
Papenbrink (303 m), with transmission facility and a quarry; north-northwest of Todenmann
Lange Wand (320,1 m); in the Hainholz State Forest northeast of Todenmann
Frankenburg-Berg (ca. 235 m), with ruins of the Frankenburg; spur of the Langen Wand north of Rinteln-Todenmann
Luhdener Klippe (ca. 300 m), with 19,8 m high Klippe Tower; north-northeast of Rinteln
Hirschkuppe (250,1 m); northeast of Rinteln
Messingsberg (270,1 m), with a quarry; north-northeast of Rinteln-Steinbergen
Westendorfer Egge (ca. 295 m), with a quarry; north-northeast of Rinteln-Westendorf
Oberberg (325,2 m), with Springsteinen; north of Rinteln-Schaumburg
Heutzeberg (225,5 m); spur of the Oberberg north of Schaumburg
Nesselberg (ca. 225 m), with Schaumburg Castle; spur of the Möncheberg east of Schaumburg
Möncheberg (326,1 m), with the Paschenburg Guest House between Schaumburg and Hessisch Oldendorf-Rohdental)

Towns and villages

Auetal (north)
Bad Eilsen (north)
Bückeburg (north)

Heeßen (north)
Hessisch Oldendorf (south)
Minden (north)

Porta Westfalica (south, west and north)
Rinteln (south)
Vlotho (southwest)

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

Aerial photograph of the western Wesergebirge at 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
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[1] "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

[NI-Nav-2] Niedersachsennavigator

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