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15-745: The Innerste Uplands gets its name from the Innerste , a tributary of the River Leine . The Innerste Uplands cover the catchment area of the Innerste southeast of Hildesheim and southwest to south of Salzgitter as far as Goslar and Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz . To the north the area is bounded by the Hildesheim Börde , to the west by the Leine Uplands and to

30-445: A mining settlement on the river Laute, a small tributary of the Innerste, and had already been given the status of a town by 1580. Sixteen years later it became a free mining town . The town was enlarged in 1560 and a rectangular market place was laid out. A comparatively large town hall was built in 1570. The building was transformed into a hotel later. In 1626, the town was plundered by the troops of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly in

45-448: Is a state-recognised, climatic spa with around 1,570 inhabitants and has been part of the borough of Langelsheim since 1972. Lautenthal lies in the Innerste valley between Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Langelsheim in the northwestern Upper Harz . The town is located at a height of about 300 m above  sea level (NN) in a valley bowl, the surrounding mountains being up to 620 m above NN . The two rivers of

60-612: Is not related to the German word innerste meaning innermost. Innerste , in earlier times called the Inste (1805), Inderste (1567), Indistria (1313), Entrista (1065) and Indrista (1013), probably goes back to the Indo-Germanic root oid = turbulent, strong . It may be the name referred to in the name of the battlefield of Idista viso (16 A.D.). The river's source is in the Harz mountains, 4 km (2.5 mi) from

75-541: Is river Grane (12 km (7.5 mi) in length). From here, the Innerste flows through the Harzvorland , a hilly countryside. Further tributaries are river Nette (42 km (26 mi) in length), river Lamme (21 km (13 mi) in length), river Bruchgraben, river Neile and river Beuster (12 km (7.5 mi) in length). Some more towns on its course are the southern quarters of Salzgitter and Hildesheim . The Innerste passes Marienburg Castle ,

90-567: The Innerste and the Laute flow through the town. Towards Langelsheim the Innerste is impounded by the Innerste Dam . Mining of copper, lead and silver in the area around Lautenthal started about 1225. In the middle of the 14th century, however, the Harz was depopulated because of plague and mining came to an end. Mining in the Harz was started again in 1524. Lautenthal was founded in 1538 as

105-614: The Laute flows into the Innerste in the middle of Lautenthal. The name of the town means "Laute Valley". Near Lautenthal the Innerste is dammed (the Innerstetalsperre ). When the dam was built 1963–1966, a nice lake for holidays and watersports was created. A few kilometers further on, the Innerste leaves the Harz Mountains near the town of Langelsheim (204 m) and turns to the Northwest. The first tributary

120-527: The Lichtenberge ), Sauberge and Vorholz . Between these ridges run the following rivers : Innerste , Lamme , Neile and Nette together with their tributaries. The ridges of the Innerste Uplands are predominantly covered with deciduous forest , particularly beech woods. The rivers run through gently rolling depressions, covered with a thick layer of loess ; this includes the basin of

135-521: The Thirty Years' War . The Protestant town church was built 1649-59. In 1690, 28 mines were operated in and around Lautenthal. In 1821, the town had 2.006 inhabitants. The railway line to Lautenthal, Innerste Valley Railway , was inaugurated in 1875 and extended to Altenau in 1914. Railway bridges were built over the Laute and the Innerste. Tourism gradually developed creating more and more jobs. At

150-532: The Ambergau. The fertile soils are heavily used for arable farming. Also part of the landscape are quarries or open-cast mines, nowadays largely closed and sometimes filled with water, in which Keuper sandstone was extracted during the Middle Ages . Eight ridges belong to the Innerste Uplands. They are, in order of height: The highest elevation in the Innerste Uplands is the 359 m high Griesberg in

165-609: The Hildesheim Forest. The rivers of the Innerste Uplands are: The following towns and villages lie within the Innerste Uplands or around its edge: 52°01′N 10°07′E  /  52.017°N 10.117°E  / 52.017; 10.117 Innerste The Innerste is a river in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is a right tributary of the Leine river and 101 km (63 mi) in length. The river name

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180-732: The centre of Hildesheim (90 m) and Steuerwald Castle in the North of the City. North of Hildesheim, the Innerste enters the North German Plain . About 18 km (11 mi) further on, it flows into the Leine near the town of Sarstedt , south of Hanover , at an elevation of 65 m. Wilhelm Raabe wrote a novelle titled Die Innerste . Lautenthal The formerly free mining town ( Bergstadt ) of Lautenthal in Germany

195-505: The middle of the village of Buntenbock , the Innerste passes Prinzenteich and turns to the west to Wildemann (390 m), one of the smallest towns in Germany. Grumbach , one of the first tributaries, flows into the Innerste in the middle of Wildemann. The Innerste turns to the North to Lautenthal (300 m), another town on its course and flows parallel to the abandoned track of the Innerste Valley Railway . Here

210-671: The southeast by the North Harz Foreland . Its central and southern areas are dominated by the Ambergau , a depression dissected by the Nette , a tributary of the Innerste. In and around the Innerste Uplands there are the following clearly defined ridges, most of which are cuestas and some of which lie on the boundary with neighbouring landscape regions (listed in alphabetical order): Giesen Hills , Hainberg , Harplage , Heber , Hildesheim Forest , Salzgitter Ridge (including

225-400: The town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld to the southwest at an elevation of 615 m and is called Innerstesprung . As a small brook, the Innerste flows west and passes a system of lakes, the first of which is called Entensumpf . The next lakes are Oberer Nassenwieser Teich , Bärenbrucher Teich , Ziegenberger Teich , and Sumpfteich . The German word Teich means "pond". Having passed through

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