Sieben Berge
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Sieben Berge |
| map | Germany Lower Saxony |
| map_caption | The Sieben Berge near Alfeld, part of the Sackmulde (B) |
| country | Germany |
| state | Lower Saxony |
| district | Hildesheim district |
| parent | Leine Uplands |
| period | Cretaceous |
| highest | Hohe Tafel |
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The Sieben Berge ("Seven Hills") are a ridge of hills up to in the Lower Saxon Hills in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. Together with the Vorberge and the Sackwald the Sieben Berge belong to the geological formation of the Sackmulde.
They are famous as a result of the fairy tale, Snow White.
Geography
The Sieben Berge ridge is located in the east of the Leine Uplands, a northern part of the Lower Saxon Hills. It lies between Gronau on the Leine to the north, Sibbesse to the northeast and Alfeld to the south.
The Sieben Berge are surrounded by the hills of the Hildesheim Forest to the northeast, the Sauberge to the east-northeast, the Vorberge to the east and the Sackwald to the southeast. To the west runs the valley of the Leine, behind which rises the Ith ridge. Topographically it transitions to the Vorberge almost seamlessly. Within and on the edge of the Sieben Berge rise several brooks whose waters flow, sooner or later, into the Leine.
There are no roads through the unpopulated Sieben Berge, but it is crossed by several forest tracks and walking trails (including the roughly 15 km long Snow White Path, which was named in 2002), on which the wooded terrain can be explored. It may be reached via, for example, the winding state road (Landesstraße) of the L 485 which branches off the B 3 in Alfeld, and which runs northeast linking Alfeld with Sibbesse and, further to the north, Hildesheim.
Snow White
The Sieben Berge gained fame from the tale of Snow White, written in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm. In the fairy tale, Snow White lives with the seven dwarfs behind the Siebe Berge. Der Ursprung des Märchens wird in verschiedenen Regionen in Deutschland vermutet. Dazu zählt auch die Region Alfeld im südlichen Niedersachsen, wonear nicht gesichert ist, dass hier der wahre Ursprung liegt. Greift man die Sieben Berge als geografischen Hinweis auf, so findet man northwest von ihm den Bergwerksort Osterwald. Es handelt sich um einen municipality von Salzhemmendorf am gleichnamigen Höhenzug Osterwald im Leinebergland. Dort wurde seit dem 16. Jahrhundert ein Steinkohlenbergwerk (Hüttenstollen Osterwald) betrieben. Glasproduktion gab es in der Nähe durch das Lauensteiner Glas. Verlängert man die Linie von Osterwald über die Sieben Berge near Alfeld, so kommt man zur Ruine der Stauffenburg, in der die böse Stiefmutter gewohnt habe. Auch ein örtlicher Bezug zu den Märchenerzähler in Form der Brüder Grimm liegt vor, da sie on the Universität im nahegelegenen Göttingen lehrten. 2002 haben Bürger von Alfeld, das on the Leine unmittelbar südwast of the Sieben Berge liegt, in diesen einen Schneewittchenpfad ausgewiesen.
Der Begriff „Alfelder Schneewittchen“ entstand im Rahmen einer Werbekampagne der Stadt (ist also nicht offiziell) and er wird oft in Verbindung with dem Schneewittchenpfad genannt.
Sehenswertes
Zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten der Sieben Berge gehört neben der hiesigen Waldlandschaft, die nearspielsweise auf dem Schneewittchenpfad erkundet werden kann, die Aussichtstürme Himmelberg Tower and Ernst-Binnewies Tower. Auch die Ruine der Schulenburger Kapelle, die nordeast of von Langenholzen and nördlich von Sack (neardes Alfelder municipalitye) auf etwa am südwestlichen Rand der Vorberge steht, ist sehenswert. Auf dem Berg Wernershöhe () in den Vorbergen findet sich die Kulturherberge Wernershöhe, in der Wanderer übernachten können. Am nord-northwesten Rand der Sieben Berge befindet sich ein Segelflugplatz. --
Hills
The Sieben Berge, whose highest hill is the Hohe Tafel (), comprise the following elevations as seen from north to south (heights in metres above Normalnull):
- Hörzen (364.1 m) – east of Brüggen
- Hohe Tafel (395 m; also Tafelberg) – east-southeast of Brüggen – with Ernst Binnewies Tower (colloquially: Tafelberg Tower; observation tower)
- Saalberg (313.2 m) – southeast of Brüggen
- Ostenberg (359.8 m) – east of Dehnsen (municipality of Alfeld)
- Lauensberg (333.4 m) – north-northeast of Eimsen (municipality of Alfeld)
- Heimberg (316.3 m) – northeast of Eimsen
- Himmelberg (307.5 m) – north of Alfeld – with the Himmelberg Tower (22,12 m high)
Other elevations that border on the Sieben Berge are (in order of height):
- Nesselberg (362.2 m) – east-southeast of Brüggen
- Nußberg (301 m) – between Rheden and Eberholzen - with its nearby transmission tower
- Ortsberg (279 m) – northeast of Alfeld
The Nußberg, which is found north of the hill range, is sometimes counted - according to various sources - instead of the Himmelberg, which is in the extreme southeast of the ridge, as either the first or seventh hill in the Sieben Berge.
Waterways
The waterways in and around the Sieben Berge include the:
- Despe, passes the Sieben Berge to the north flowing in an east-west direction, eastern tributary of the Leine
- Hahmbach, rises in the north-northeastern part of the Sieben Berge where it joins the Vorberge, southern tributary of the Despe
- Leine, passes the Sieben Berge to the west in a south to north direction, left tributary of the Aller, tributary of the Weser
- Wispe, flows by Wispenstein into the Leine
Settlements
Settlements on the edge of the Sieben Berge include the:
- Alfeld on the Leine, south of the Sieben Berge
- Brüggen on the Leine, northwest of the Siebe Berge
- Eberholzen am Hahmbach, north-northeast of the Sieben Berge
- Gronau on the Leine, north of the Sieben Berge
- Rheden east of the Leine, west of the Sieben Berge
- Sibbesse in the catchment area of the Despe, northeast of the Sieben Berge
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