Ith
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Overview map: The Ith and Hils in the centre
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Highest point | |
Peak | Lauensteiner Kopf |
Upper Jurassic | |
Type of rock | Limestone |
The Ith (German:
Geography
Location
The Ith is immediately northwest of the
The streams on the Ith flow west via the Ilse, Remte and Lenne into the Weser or east via the Saale into the Leine.
The Ith is crossed by two roads: in the north by the L 425 between Haus Harderode and Lauenstein over the Lauenstein Pass, and in the south by the B 240 between Lüerdissen and Capellenhagen over the Holzener Pass.
Hills
The highest hill on the densely forested Ith is the Lauensteiner Kopf at 439 m above NN. It is located in the Krüllbrink, the name of the northern part of the Ith and has an observation tower, the Ith Tower.
This hill, together with other summits, crags and foothills of the Ith are given below in order of their height in metres (m) above Normalnull (NN unless stated otherwise[1]):
- Lauensteiner Kopf (ca. 439 m), between Bisperode and Lauenstein; with the Ith Tower
- Hunzener Klippen (ca. 412 m), near Hunzen
- Oberberg (ca. 407 m[2]), between Coppenbrügge and Lauenstein; with the Falkenstein natural monument
- Rothestein (ca. 395 m), near Holzen-Ith; with Ithwiesen Glider Airfield and near the Rothestein Cave
- Eggerser Berg (ca. 380 m), between Bremke and Domäne Eggersen
- Hohenstein (307.2 m[2]), between Lauenstein and Marienau
- Krähenberg (ca. 270 m), near Lauenstein
- Dornbrink (ca. 233 m), near Lauenstein
Sport and tourism
The Ith is a popular destination especially for hikers, climbers and glider pilots. The ridgeway draws many walkers especially in the springtime, when trees and flowers are blossoming,
There are a large number of striking
At the southern end of the ridge, north of the parish of
On the Ith, but not at the top, there are two other glider airfields: Hellenhagen Airfield in
Literature
- Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumforschung: Geographische Landesaufnahme 1:200000. Naturräumliche Gliederung Deutschlands. Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 86 Hannover. Bad Godesberg 1960
- Hans-Jürgen Klink: Naturräumliche Gliederung des Ith-Hils-Berglandes. Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumforschung. 1966. ISBN B0000BS19H
- Friedmut Lehmeier: Regionale Geomorphologie des nördlichen Ith-Hils-Berglandes auf der Basis einer grossmaßstäbigen geomorphologischen Kartierung. Goltze Druck, Göttingen. 1981. ISBN 3-88452-078-4
- Michael Geschwinde: Höhlen im Ith. Urgeschichtliche Opferstätten im südniedersächsischen Bergland. o.O. 1988. ISBN 3-7848-1233-3
- Richard Goedeke: Weser-Leine-Bergland. Verlag J. Berg, München. 1991. ISBN 3-7634-1049-X(zum Ith: S. 76–217)
- Ludger Feldmann, Hans Joachim Franzke, Rainer Müller: Die geologische Entwicklung der Tiefebene und der Mittelgebirge in Niedersachsen.[dead link] (pdf) In: Veröffentlichungen der Akademie für Geowissenschaften zu Hannover. 20/2002. S. 8–19
References
- ^ BfN
- ^ "weserbergland.com: Zur "Frühlingswiese" auf den Ithkamm.". Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de: Der Ith bei Lauenstein.". Archived from the original on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "ig-klettern-niedersachsen.de: Lüerdissener Klippen.". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ ithwiesen.de > Unterseiten „Flugplatz“ und „Wir über uns“
- ^ Falko Niederstadt: Drei Buchstaben, einmal anders gesehen. Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Media related to Ith at Wikimedia Commons