Solling
Solling | |
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Highest point | |
Peak | Große Blöße |
Elevation | 527.8 m (1,732 ft) |
Coordinates | 51°46′50″N 9°35′32″E / 51.78056°N 9.59222°E |
Geography | |
Country | Germany |
Region | Lower Saxony |
Range coordinates | 51°44′N 9°36′E / 51.733°N 9.600°E |
The Solling (ⓘ) is a range of hills up to 527.8 m above sea level (NN) high in the Weser Uplands in the German state of Lower Saxony, whose extreme southerly foothills extend into Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Inside Lower Saxony it is the second largest range of hills and the third highest after the Harz (Wurmberg; 971 m) and the Kaufungen Forest (Haferberg; 581 m).
The Solling is a cultural landscape consisting mainly of
Together with the smaller and lower
Hills
The main hills in the Solling include the following (heights given in m above Normalnull):
- Große Blöße (527.8 m)
- Großer Ahrensberg (524.9 m)
- Moosberg (513.0 m) – with Hochsolling observation tower
- Vogelherd (c. 505 m)
- Dreiberg (493.5 m)
- Großer Steinberg (493 m) – with "Harzblick" observation tower
- Tünnekenbornstrang (490.1 m)
- Langenberg (484.6 m)
- Bärenkopf (473.0 m)
- Wolfsstrang (468.7 m) – with Gaußstein
- Schönenberg (457.1 m)
- Hasselberg (also called the Schrodhalbe; 452.5 m) – with TV tower
- Hahnenbreite (452.0 m)
- Alte Schmacht (447.5 m) – with transmission facility
- Eisernstieg (446.3 m)
- Strutberg (444 m) – with "Sollingturm" observation tower
- Großer Lauenberg (442.6 m)
- Wildenkiel (c. 441 m)
- Auerhahnkopf (c. 440 m)
- Hengstrücken (424 m)
- Buchholz (421.7 m)
- Sonnenköpfe (414.6 m; western peak)
- Sonnenköpfe (407.0 m; eastern peak)
- Junge Schmacht (388.0 m)
- Platte (379.7 m)
- Sommerberg (364.5 m)
- Kahlberg (224.7 m)
Villages and towns
Villages and towns in the Solling are:
- Abbecke
- Amelith
- Bad Karlshafen
- Bevern
- Bodenfelde
- Boffzen
- Dassel
- Derental
- Einbeck
- Espol
- Fohlenplacken
- Fredelsloh
- Fürstenberg
- Hardegsen
- Hellental
- Hilwartshausen
- Holzminden
- Höxter
- Kammerborn
- Lauenförde
- Lauenberg
- Lüchtringen
- Mackensen
- Merxhausen
- Mühlenberg
- Neuhaus
- Nienover
- Schießhaus
- Sievershausen
- Silberborn
- Schönhagen
- Schorborn
- Sohlingen
- Uslar
- Vahle
- Wahmbeck
Literature
Johannes Krabbe: Karte des Sollings von 1603, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Hans-Martin Arnoldt, Kirstin Casemir und Uwe Ohanski, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hannover 2004.
External links
- http://www.solling.de
- http://www.hutewald.de
- http://www.hackelberg.de
- Wildpark Neuhaus (with forest museum)