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14-704: The hilly region forms the southern part of a ridge that stretches from the Lappwald range in the north along the upper Aller river to the Bode basin near Oschersleben . This ridge is bordered in the northeast by the Upper Aller . Three of the Aller's source streams rise on the northern slopes of the Hohes Holz, which thereby forms part of the Weser - Elbe watershed. The highest elevation in

28-470: Is a heavily wooded range of hills, 20 km long and up to 5 km wide, in central Germany. It stretches northwards from the town of Helmstedt . The border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt runs through the woods, of which about three quarters is on Lower Saxon terrain. The Lappwald is part of the Elm-Lappwald Nature Park . The Lappwald runs from north-west to south-east parallel to

42-617: Is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany . Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen . Its population is 688 (2022). Walbeck is situated in the west of the Magdeburg Börde on the Aller River at the northeastern rim of the Lappwald hill range. It is located about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of Weferlingen , near

56-417: Is also a recreation area and "green lung" of great importance for the region about 30 km, located as it is 30 km west of the city of Magdeburg . In addition to a nature trail several signposted cycle ways and footpaths have been established in recent years. 52°05′13″N 11°12′30″E  /  52.08694°N 11.20833°E  / 52.08694; 11.20833 Lappwald The Lappwald

70-586: Is located immediately next to the B 1 federal road to Magdeburg on the edge of the Lappwald. From a geological point of view, the Lappwald, which reaches a height of 211 m on the Heidberg , is a hollow, that only appears like a raised horst due to the sharply downfaulted terrain it is surrounded by. In the Cretaceous , a period of some 71 million years, the sea washed chalk, marls and sands in several flood phases into

84-612: The Elm hills, which lie about 10 km further west. The forests of the Lappwald are almost entirely uninhabited. The only settlements are the Helmstedt hamlet of Bad Helmstedt and the Harbke sector of Autobahn in the south, and the installations of the old airbase of Mariental in the north. The first records describe the Lappwald as the Lapvualt in the year 1147. There is no clear derivation for

98-485: The Inner German Border divided the Lappwald, following the old Brunswick-Prussian boundary. In the Lappwald northeast of Helmstedt are the remains of a defensive ditch forming part of the old dyke to Walbeck . The structures that have survived include two watchtowers from the 13th century which are referred to as the 1st and 2nd Walbeck Watchtowers ( Walbecker Warte ). Another well-preserved medieval watchtower

112-718: The Northern March from about 983. The most notable member of the canon -convent was the medieval chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg , a relative of the Walbeck counts and provost from 1002. Thietmar consecrated the abbey church in 1015, a church bell from these times (the Walbeck Bell), one of the earliest extant in Germany, is today part of the collections of the Bode Museum in Berlin . After

126-522: The Helmstedt and Schöppenstedt hollow and thus covered the underlying rock. Further flooding by the sea in the succeeding Tertiary era created large areas of bog in the Helmstedt Basin that were transformed under sub-tropical climatic conditions into massive brown coal deposits. 52°15′21.52″N 11°02′23.30″E  /  52.2559778°N 11.0398056°E  / 52.2559778; 11.0398056 Walbeck (Landkreis B%C3%B6rde) Walbeck

140-505: The Hohes Holz is the Edelberg at 209 m above  sea level (NN) . The Bode, flowing a few kilometres to the south, is only about 80 m above sea level. Politically the region of the Hohes Holz belongs to the municipalities of Ausleben , Eggenstedt , Stadt Oschersleben (Bode) and Wormsdorf im Börde district . The Hohes Holz hills, designated as a protected area , extend over about 15 square kilometres (5.8 sq mi). In

154-513: The border with Helmstedt in the state of Lower Saxony . A nearby crack of karstic ( Muschelkalk ) galleries is the site of a significant fossil deposit with numerous traces of Paleocene mammals ( Arctocyonidae ) and birds. With effect from 1 January 2010, Walbeck and the neighbouring municipalities of Oebisfelde , Bösdorf , Eickendorf , Etingen , Kathendorf , Rätzlingen , Eschenrode , Döhren , Hödingen , Hörsingen , Schwanefeld , Seggerde , Siestedt , and Weferlingen merged to form

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168-596: The middle of this mainly beech covered region there are 150 hectares (370 acres) of nature reserve. Amongst the numerous species of wild flower in the Hohes Holz are the Anemone s, liverwort , woodruff , Primula , lily of the valley , Gentian , hyacinths and several orchids ( lady orchid , heath spotted orchid and bird's-nest orchid ). The fauna of the region includes the buzzard , red kite , goshawk , sparrowhawk and grey heron as well as fox , weasel , marten , red squirrel and badger . The Hohes Holz

182-512: The name "Lappwald". The most likely theory is to do with the hunting term Einlappens . The Lappwald was a border forest for many centuries between the Brunswick and Prussian territories. Numerous smugglers and other criminals, including the well-known figure of "Robber Captain Rose" ( Räuberhauptmann Rose , real name: Carl Wallmann) used the forest's border situation to their advantage. In the 20th century

196-661: The new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. Walbeck was first mentioned in 929, when the local Saxon count Lothair I was killed in a battle against the Polabian Slavs near Lenzen . In 942 his son Count Lothair II of Walbeck dedicated a house monastery at his residence, part of a reparation after he had been involved in a failed assassination attempt instigated by the Ottonian duke Henry I of Bavaria against his brother King Otto I . Lothair reached his pardon; his son Count Lothair III of Walbeck and his descendants served as margrave of

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