4-567: At 524.9 m above sea level (NN) the Großer Ahrensberg is one of the highest hills in the Solling range, which is located in southern Lower Saxony in Germany . This densely wooded hill lies about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) as the crow flies west-southwest of Dassel between the villages of Hellental and Schießhaus to the north and Silberborn to the south. It is located on
8-646: A sufficiently healthy environment for beech woods. Several forest tracks and footpaths meet at the very top of the Großer Ahrensberg. Normalnull Normalnull ("standard zero") or Normal-Null (short N. N. or NN ) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked Meter über Normal-Null (“meters above standard zero”). Normalnull has been replaced by Normalhöhennull (NHN). In 1878 reference heights were taken from
12-742: The Amsterdam Ordnance Datum and transferred to the New Berlin Observatory in order to define the Normalhöhenpunkt 1879 . Normalnull has been defined as a level going through an imaginary point 37.000 m below Normalhöhenpunkt 1879 . When the New Berlin Observatory was demolished in 1912 the reference point was moved east to the village of Hoppegarten (now part of the town of Müncheberg , Brandenburg , Germany ). This cartography or mapping term article
16-653: The western flanks of the Hellental Graben, through which the river Helle flows, and is surrounded by the Solling-Vogler Nature Park . On the far (south-southeast) side of this graben is the Große Blöße . The region of the Großer Ahrensberg belongs to the Hoher Solling climatic zone above 400 m, which has high levels of precipitation and low temperatures. These climatic conditions are e.g. still provide
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