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14-648: Ellensen Forest (German: Ellenser Wald ) is a low mountain range in the Leine Uplands , sited at the city of Dassel in South Lower Saxony , Germany . It is named for Ellensen, a district of Dassel. Ellensen Forest lies between Solling and Ahlsburg mountain ranges and is separated from the Ahlsburg by the valley of the Dieße river. Among the hills of Ellensen Forest are Scharfenberg (342 m) and Burgberg (306 m), where

28-550: A northwest-southeast direction. East of the massifs that give 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

42-585: The Southwest Harz Foreland , in which Jurassic limestone 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

56-633: 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 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

70-507: The Ilme valley is adjoining. The forest is mainly made up of common beech ( Fagus sylvatica ), which is almost unchanged for more than 200 years, as land surveying has shown. The forest grounds on limestone of the Muschelkalk age. 51°46′52″N 9°42′41″E  /  51.7812°N 9.7115°E  / 51.7812; 9.7115 Leine Uplands The Leine Uplands, which merge into

84-540: 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 Hils The Hils is a range of hills in Germany's Central Uplands that is up to 480.4 m high. It is located in the districts of Holzminden , Hildesheim and Northeim , in

98-684: The Leine Uplands is the extreme east of the Southwest Harz Foreland and 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

112-607: 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 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

126-505: The Weser Uplands to the east and the Harz to the west, are not 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

140-518: The largest group of abris in central Europe may be found. They are often located in 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

154-749: The nearby Großer Sohl (472 m), on which a monument to the poet, Wilhelm Raabe , has been erected next to the Wilhelm Raabe Tower named after him. Numerous walking trails run through the Hils, which is accessible from the B 3 , B 64 and B 240 federal highways. The towns and villages which lie immediately in and around the Hils are: Coppengrave , Delligsen , Duingen , Eschershausen , Fölziehausen, Grünenplan , Hohenbüchen , Hohe Warte , Holzen , Kaierde , Varrigsen. 51°56′N 9°45′E  /  51.933°N 9.750°E  / 51.933; 9.750 This Lower Saxony location article

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168-402: The state of Lower Saxony . The heavily forested massif of the Hils, which is part of the Leine Uplands and Weser-Leine Uplands , is immediately southeast of the knife edge ridge known as the Ith . It is located roughly northwest of Einbeck between Holzen to the west and Delligsen to the east. The highest elevation in the Hils is the 480.4 m high Bloße Zelle , the second highest

182-520: The valley during the Middle Ages and could also block it entirely. In 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

196-518: The wide trough of the River Leine's middle course and a northern half by 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

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