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25-820: The ridge of Vorberge is located in the eastern edge of the Leine Uplands in the Lower Saxon Hills . It lies between the town of Alfeld on the River Leine to the southwest and Sibbesse on the Alme to the north. The Vorberge is surrounded by other uplands: the Hildesheim Forest to the north, the Sauberge to the east-northeast, Harplage to the east-southeast, the Heber to the southeast,

50-472: A clearly defined landscape in terms of being a natural region but are nevertheless relatively easily delineated. Their extent from south to north is determined by the river that lends them their name and their extent from east to west by high ridges. From north to south the uplands can be broadly divided into a southern half around the wide trough of the River Leine's middle course and a northern half by

75-502: A derailed freight train near Northeim. Eleven people died and 52 were injured. The town has a town museum and archive. There is an outdoor stage outside the town. The town is also home to a puppet theatre, Theater der Nacht, which since 2001 has been housed in a redesigned fire station. Some of the old town wall still stands, including a watchtower. Hanoverian Southern Railway connects Northeim with cities like Göttingen and Hanover . Solling Railway connects Northeim with cities at

100-515: A gothic altar dating from 1420 and another altar created in the 16th century. After the church had been allocated to the Protestants in 1539 there were no Catholics living in Northeim for several decades. The first catholic church to be built after the reformation was Saint Mary's Church outside the historic town centre which was founded at the end of the 19th century. Saint Spiritus Hospital

125-663: A railway junction. The South Harz Railway was opened in 1868 and the Solling Railway in 1878. During the Second World War Northeim was hit by bombs in September 1944, February 1945 and in March 1945. The railway station, five factories and 18 houses were completely destroyed and 80 houses were damaged. The historic centre did not suffer severe bomb damage. Northeim, under the pseudonym of Thalburg ,

150-399: Is a large half-timbered house with wood carvings built around 1500. Saint Blasii is a former monastery which was founded in the 11th century and dissolved in 1592 after the reformation. In the village of Imbshausen which was incorporated into the city in 1974 a castle built 1862–64 in a large park is worth a visit. Theater der Nacht is located in an old firestation, rebuilt and designed by

175-814: Is a region in Germany's Central Uplands which forms a part of the Lower Saxon Hills and lies along the River Leine between Göttingen and Hanover . It borders on the Weser Uplands in the west, the Innerste Uplands in the northeast, the Harz in the east and Untereichsfeld in the southeast. The Leine Uplands, which merge into the Weser Uplands to the east and the Harz to the west, are not

200-689: Is a town in Lower Saxony , Germany , seat of the district of Northeim , with a population of 30,118 as of 31 December 2023. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road . Northeim is first mentioned in 800 in a document recording a property transfer by a Frankish nobleman to the Abbey of Fulda . In the 10th century the surrounding region became a county , administered by the Counts of Northeim. The first of them, Siegfried

225-659: Is found alongside Bunter and Muschelkalk. Immediately north of Einbeck the Hube , an outlier of the Southwest Harz Foreland, reaches the western side of the Leine and "blocks" the Leine trough to the north. West of the trough is the heath landscape of the latter opposite the intensively farmed Solling Foreland . Not counted as part of the Leine Uplands is the extreme east of the Southwest Harz Foreland and

250-526: Is mentioned in 982. From 1061 to 1070 Count Otto II held the stem duchy of Bavaria as an Imperial fief, but lost it again because of his involvement in the Saxon plot against King Henry IV . The monastery of St. Blasius was founded around 1100. In 1252 Northeim obtained town rights , and from 1384 to 1554 it was a member of the Hanseatic League . When protestantism was introduced in 1532 all

275-566: Is the subject of William Sheridan Allen 's book The Nazi Seizure of Power ( ISBN   0-531-05633-3 ), a comprehensive study of the success of Nazism at town level. The book describes how the Nazis took over all social groups in the town and Nazified them, but failed to instill positive enthusiasm for the Nazi state. Instead, the population was "atomized" and deprived of the means to express group grievances. The book has been criticized for neglecting

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300-661: The Sackwald to the south and the Sieben Berge to the west. Topographically, it transitions seamlessly to the last named range. Several streams rise within and on the edge of the Vorberge whose waters sooner or later find their way into the westward-flowing Leine or the northeastwards- running Innerste ; it thus forms a watershed between the two rivers. The unsettled hills of the Vorberge are crossed by several forest tracks and hiking trails which enable visitors to explored

325-404: The 15th century. In many façades wood carvings are worth a look. A part of the historic centre is still surrounded by the medieval wall which was built in 1252–1305. The oldest church of Northeim is Saint Fabian's and Sebastian's Chapel which was built in a typical gothic style in the middle of the 14th century and renovated in 1985/86. Saint Sixti's Church was built from 1464 to 1517. It houses

350-680: The Leine finally leaves the Leine Uplands and, simultaneously, the Central Uplands and enters funnel-shaped basin of the Calenberg Loess Börde which opens out into the North German Plain and which abuts on the Calenberg Uplands in the west and the Innerste Uplands and Hildesheim Forest in the east. The landscape regions of the Leine Uplands are grouped into the following major units, whereby

375-651: The churches were allocated to the protestants. The town became part of the Kingdom of Hanover . A part of Northeim was devastated by a fire in 1832 when the representative town hall dating from the Middle Ages and more than 40 houses burnt down. Further damage was caused by a fire in 1892 which destroyed several historic buildings in the Market Place. After the railway from Hanover to Göttingen had been inaugurated in 1854 Northeim gained in importance and became

400-487: The edge of the Vorberge include: Besides the woodlands themselves, places of interest in the Vorberge include the ruins of the Schulenburg Chapel ( Schulenburger Kapelle ), that stand northeast of Langenholzen and north of Sack (both in the borough of Alfeld) at about 353 m above NN . Leine Uplands The Leine Uplands ( German : Leinebergland , German pronunciation )

425-706: The extreme northwest of the Solling Foreland around the Vogler . After the Leine trough has been blocked and flows around the Hube, it runs through the Alfeld Uplands ( Alfelder Bergland ), also called the Ith-Hils Upland ( Ith-Hils-Bergland ), which is characterised by a succession of closely spaced ridges and finger valleys running in a northwest-southeast direction. East of the massifs that give

450-528: The lower reaches of the same river. The River Leine flows from Friedland via Göttingen and Northeim to Einbeck through the Leine trough ( Leine-Ilm Basin ), an important north-south orientated geological rift valley . On the hilltops along the valley of the Leine there are many castles that controlled the north-south road network in the valley during the Middle Ages and could also block it entirely. In

475-573: The narrowest places in the ravine-like rocky valleys between the Leine and the Eichsfeld. In an area about 30 km long and 6 to 10 km wide around 1600 abris have been discovered. The woods (largely beech forests) are utilised by the forestry industry. To the north this landscape transitions into the equally thickly wooded escarpments and fault-block landscape of the Southwest Harz Foreland , in which Jurassic limestone

500-679: The numbers not prefixed by the letter D represent the old categorisation into major unit groups (double figures) and major units (triple figures), whilst the new major unit group, D 36, contains the two older groups. The following hills are counted as part of the Leine Uplands (roughly north to south ): Towns in the Leine valley (from north to south): other towns in the Leine Uplands: 51°58′0″N 9°49′0″E  /  51.96667°N 9.81667°E  / 51.96667; 9.81667 Northeim Northeim ( German pronunciation: [ˈnɔʁtˌhaɪ̯m] ; Low German : Nuurten )

525-659: The region its alternative name, the Ith and the Hils , which are up to 480 m high, the ridges fall steeply on both sides of the Leine into the valley and are dissected by various tributaries. Beech woods dominate the heights whilst the valleys are used for arable farming. Large areas of the countryside are protected. On the ridges east of the Leine, besides the mesophilic beech and ravine woods, there are xeric grasslands, dry bushlands, mesophilic grasslands and dry chalk hillside forests that are particularly worthy of conservation. Near Gronau

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550-399: The role of the churches, which remained largely autonomous. However, even its critics say that the book is crucial to our understanding of Nazi Germany and has played a key role in shaping scholarship. Imbshausen, the site of a post- World War II British sector Displaced Persons camp , was incorporated into the town in 1974. On 15 November 1992 an express train crashed into the wreckage of

575-490: The southeastern part of the Leine Uplands, east of the valley, is the plateau of the Göttingen-Northeim Forest which is founded on Bunter sandstone and Muschelkalk . The western edge of the forest (in a northerly direction) reaches from Friedland via Göttingen and Nörten-Hardenberg to Northeim . It is here that the largest group of abris in central Europe may be found. They are often located in

600-575: The southern part of Solling-Vogler Nature Park . Northeim also provides a small grass airfield (ICAO locator code: EDVN) due east of the town. Northeim is twinned with: (at 31 December each year) There are many well-preserved half-timbered houses in the old centre of Northeim, e.g. in Wassergasse , one of the most picturesque lanes, and in Kuhgasse , the narrowest lane of Northeim. The oldest half-timbered houses were built of oak wood in

625-513: The wooded landscape. It is easily reached on the winding Landesstraße L 485 country road that branches off the B ;3 in Alfeld, which runs northeast linking Alfeld with Sibbesse and with Hildesheim further to the north. The hills of the Vorberge include the following (heights in metres above sea level (NN) ): Amongst the streams in and around the Vorberge are the: The villages on

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