Weser Uplands

The Weser Uplands[1] (German: Weserbergland) (German pronunciation: [veːzɐˈbɛʁklant]) is a hill region (Bergland = uplands, hills or hill region) in Germany (Lower Saxony, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia, between Hannoversch Münden and Porta Westfalica near the river Weser. Important cities of this region include Bad Karlshafen, Holzminden, Höxter, Bodenwerder, Hameln, Rinteln, and Vlotho. The tales of the Brothers Grimm are set in the Weser Uplands, and it has many renaissance buildings, exhibiting a peculiar regional style, the so-called Weser Renaissance style. The region roughly coincides with the natural region of the Lower Saxon Hills defined by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation or BfN.

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Geography

In addition to the whole of the Weser Valley between Hann. Münden und Porta Westfalica, several geologically associated, but clearly separate chains of uplands, ridges and individual hills are considered part of the Weser Uplands. In its narrowest sense, the following would be included (running from north to south):

Name Height above NN
Wesergebirge 326 m
Süntel 437 m
Ottenstein Plateau ca. 300 m
Vogler 460 m
Solling 528 m
Reinhardswald 472 m
Bramwald 408 m

Notable ridges

In addition the following hills and ridges are often considered part of the Weser Hills:

The landscape was most recently significantly formed during the course of the ice ages by the advance of glaciers from the Scandinavian ice sheets which gave rise to much of Germany's present-day Northern Lowlands.

Important towns

References

  1. ^ Dickinson, Robert E. (1964). Germany: A regional and economic geography (2nd ed.). London: Methuen. p. 37. ASIN B000IOFSEQ. 
Central Uplands of Germany