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14-545: The Wiehen Hills lie within the districts of Osnabrück , Minden-Lübbecke and Herford . Their northern section runs in an east–west direction roughly from the territory of Bramsche (northwest of Osnabrück ) via Ostercappeln , Bad Essen , Preußisch Oldendorf and Rödinghausen , Lübbecke , Hüllhorst and Bad Oeynhausen as far as the towns of Minden and Porta Westfalica on the Porta Westfalica gorge and River Weser . They also graze Bohmte and Hille to

28-634: Is not so simple for its western extremity. To the west the Wiehen descends gradually, transitioning from a hilly ridge into a chain of hillocks and then descending almost imperceptibly into the plain . South of Bramsche the ridge rises again at the Penter Egge to a height of 99 metre, but 2.5 km further west it reaches the level of the surrounding countryside. The waterways of the Mittelland Canal and Osnabrück Canal running away to

42-683: The Reichstag in Berlin . Today the Deister is a popular target for people of the Hanover area for walking and cycling. The Deister is a border region since ancient times. Here one can find many places with memorial stones, tumuli and ruins of castles. The ridge is covered by a mixed forest of beech and spruce and, in places, also beech and oak . On the Cecilienhöhe near Bad Nenndorf, at

56-839: The Wesergebirge , which is the eastern continuation of the Wiehen Hills. This ridge is of similar geological construction and runs as far as the area of Hessisch Oldendorf to the Süntel hills. Southeast of the Wiehen Hills are the Lippe Uplands , to the south the Ravensberg Hills , to the southwest in the area of the Tecklenburg Land are the northern foothills of the Teutoburg Forest , and to

70-509: The Hofeler to a height of 395 m (1,250 ft). The highest point is the Bröhn at 405 m (1,312 ft). The chain is well-wooded and abounds in game. From the 17th century on there were several coal mines; the last was abandoned in the 1950s. Sandstone from quarries in eastern Deister was used in several important buildings all over Europe, including the opera house in Hanover and

84-457: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 541651954 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:32:03 GMT Deister The Deister is a chain of hills in the German state of Lower Saxony , about 15 mi (25 km) southwest of the city of Hanover . It runs in a north-westerly direction from Springe in

98-495: The hills usually admit grudgingly that the Wiehen Hills are not particularly high. In the same breath, they may assert, often with a raised index finger and an odd emphasis on the word gebirge ("hill/mountain range"), that they are the northernmost hill range in Germany and the one closest to the sea. Whether this assertion is true is in fact a matter of definition. It clearly ignores the morainic ridges further north and closer to

112-671: The most northerly hill over 300 metres in Germany. The Heidbrink, at almost 320 metres high, is also the northernmost "three-hundred" on the European continent between the central Ural Mountains and the Atlantic , i.e. excluding the British Isles and Fennoscandinavia . Landkreis Osnabr%C3%BCck Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

126-550: The north. South of the Wiehen Hills lie Osnabrück , Bissendorf , Melle , Kirchlengern , Bünde , Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen . The Wiehen Hills form the northwestern boundary of the Lower Saxon Hills to which they belong geographically, together with the Westphalian part of the ridge. Whilst the eastern end of the hill chain is clearly defined by the Porta Westfalica gorge and the hill of Wittekindsberg , this

140-703: The northwest are the hills of the Gehn and the Ankum Heights , the Damme Hills and the Stemweder Berg . North of the northwestern tip of the Wiehen liest the great bog of the Großes Moor . The hills of the Wiehen range from west to east are: Height of the highest hill in bold; heights in metres (m) above Normalhöhennull (NHN) According to folklore, regionally conscious residents around

154-582: The picnic area of Lauenau -Feggendorf and southwest of the old forester's lodge at Köllnischfeld are several examples of the rare, native dwarf beech ( Süntelbuche ). Amongst the rarer plants on the Deister are species of holly , mezereon , orchids , sundews , globeflowers , hard shield fern , and great snowdrops . The Deister is home to the typical animals found in the German Central Uplands . Red deer , roe deer and wild boar are very common. Other wild animals occurring here are

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168-487: The sea, as well as other true uplands such as the Stemweder Berg or the Rehburg Hills . Of course, these hills are much lower and do not reach the 200-metre contour line. Of the higher, say up to 300-metre-high (980 ft) uplands, the northern foothills of Deister and Bückeberge extend farther north than the eastern Wiehen range. However, it is also true that the highest part of the Wiehen Hills at Lübbecke has

182-616: The south appear to mark the end of the hill range, but west of these canals is the 82-metre-high Larberger Egge which forms the westernmost cornerstone of the Wiehen Hills, rising just 2  km northeast of the boundary with the province of Münster . To the north, the Wiehen descends to the North German Plain into a region known as the Lübbecke Loessland . On the banks of the Weser, opposite Porta Westfalica, lies

196-529: The south to Rodenberg in the north. The next in the chain of hills to the south is the Kleiner Deister ("Little Deister") from which it is separated by the flat pass of the Deister Gate . It is surrounded by Springe, Wennigsen , Barsinghausen , Bad Nenndorf , Rodenberg and Bad Münder (counter-clockwise, starting in the south). It has a total length of 21 km (14 mi), and rises in

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