Solling

Solling
File:Teich Neuer Solling.jpg The Neuer Teich in the Solling
Highest point
Peak	Große Blöße
Elevation
Coordinates
Geography
Location of the Solling in Northeim district Location of the Solling in Northeim district
Country	Germany
State/Province	Lower Saxony
Range coordinates

Lower Saxon Hills

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 spruce and beech forests. Oak also grows in some areas. The Solling forest is home of a number of animals and birds, for example red deer or chaffinch. They can best be observed in the Neuhaus wildlife park.

Together with the smaller and lower Vogler range and the little Burgberg to the north, the Solling is part of the Solling-Vogler Nature Park.

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)