Solling
The Solling (German pronunciationⓘ) 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)
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- Anterior Bavarian Forest Einödriegel
- Black Forest Feldberg
- Bohemian Forest Großer Arber (Bavarian Forest Großer Arber)
- Deister Bröhn
- Ebbe Mountains Nordhelle
- Egge Mountains (Prussian) Velmerstot
- Eifel Hohe Acht (Volcanic Eifel Ernstberg)
- Elbe Sandstone Mountains Großer Zschirnstein
- Elm Eilumer Horn
- Elster Mountains Kapellenberg
- Fichtel Mountains Schneeberg (Steinwald Platte, Kohlwald Sieben-Linden-Berg)
- Franconian Forest Döbraberg
- Franconian Jura Dürrenberg
- Gladenbach Uplands Angelburg
- Goshawk Forest Hohes Gras
- Harz Brocken (Blocksberg)
- Hildesheim Forest Griesberg
- Hils Bloße Zelle
- Hoher Meißner Kasseler Kuppe
- Hunsrück Erbeskopf (Soonwald Ellerspring)
- Ith Lauensteiner Kopf
- Kaiserstuhl Totenkopf
- Kaufungen Forest Hirschberg
- Kellerwald Wüstegarten
- Knüll Eisenberg
- Kyffhäuser Kulpenberg
- Lenne Mountains Homert
- Lippe Uplands Köterberg
- North Palatine Uplands Donnersberg
- Odenwald Katzenbuckel
- Ore Mountains Fichtelberg
- Palatine Forest Kalmit
- Rhön Wasserkuppe
- Rothaar Mountains Langenberg
- Saalhausen Hills Himberg
- Siebengebirge Großer Ölberg
- Solling Große Blöße
- Spessart Geiersberg (Breitsol)
- Sudetes Lausche (Luž) (Lusatian Mountains Lausche (Luž) (Zittau Mountains Lausche (Luž)))
- Süntel Hohe Egge
- Swabian Jura Lemberg (Randen Hoher Randen)
- Taunus Großer Feldberg
- Teutoburg Forest (Osning) Barnacken
- Thuringian Forest Großer Beerberg
- Thuringian Slate Mountains Großer Farmdenkopf
- Upper Palatine Forest Kreuzfelsen
- Vogelsberg Taufstein
- Weser Hills Paschenburg Mountain
- Westerwald Fuchskaute
- Wiehen Hills Heidbrink