Salzgitter Hills
The Salzgitter Hills is an area of upland up to in height, in the Lower Saxon Hills between Salzgitter and Goslar in the districts of Wolfenbüttel and Goslar and in the territory of the independent town of Salzgitter. The hills lie in the German federal state of Lower Saxony.
The German name of Salzgitter-Höhenzug is a term used in the northern Harz Foreland, albeit not found on maps, and is used to mean the string of hills north of the Harz Mountains between the towns mentioned above.
The state forest of the Salzgitter Hills is managed by several Lower Saxony forestry offices, including the Revierförsterei Salder in Salzgitter-Salder.
The Salzgitter Hills can be divided into these four unnamed sections:
- Northwest section
- North-central section
- South-central section
- Southern section
Hills
The hills of the Salzgitter range include :Northwest section
Lichtenberge:- Adlershorst
- Burgberg – with the ruins of Lichtenberg Castle
- Herzberg
- Langer Berg
- Kalkrosenberg
- Lindenberg
- Friesenberg
- Steinkuhlenberge
- Bockernberg
- Sieben Köpfe
- Gustedter Berg
- Elber Berg
North-central section
- Hamberg – with the Bismarck Tower
- Dahlenberg
- Knickeln Berg
- Schellenberg
- Königsberg
- Großer Vorberg
- Kleiner Vorberg
- Vorberg
- Heinemannshöhe
- Friesenberg
- Schneidlersberg
- Fuchsberg
South-central section
- Sieben Köpfe :
- * Bärenkopf – with the ruins of an observation tower
- Döhrenberg
- Rohenberg
- Lewer Berg
- Kassebusch
Southern section
- Vier Berge
- Fischerköpfe
- Querberg
- Königsberg
- Meseburg
- Barley
- Langenberg
- Glockenberg
- Schneeberg
- Försterberg
- Frankenberg
- Grotenberg
Bodies of water
Streams and rivers
The streams and rivers in and on the Salzgitter Hills include the:- Fuhse – passes to the east of the northern central and northwestern sections
- Hengstebach – rises west of the northern central section in der municipality of Elbe; eastern tributary of the Innerste
- Innerste – passes the hills to the west
- Oker – passes east of the southern section
- Warne – rises on the transition from the northern to the southern central section near Salzgitter-Bad; western tributary of the Oker
Lakes
- Reihersee – in the north of the northern central section; south of Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen
- Fortunateich – in the north of the southern section; east of Liebenburg-Heißum
- Morgensternteich – in the south of the southern section; northeast of Goslar-Hahndorf
Settlements
- Holle – a few kilometres west of the western end of the northwest section
- Baddeckenstedt – southwest of northwest section
- * Wartjenstedt – west of the western end of the northwest section
- * Burgdorf – northwest of the northwest section
- * Elbe – south of the northwest section
- * Haverlah – southwest of northern central section
- Salzgitter – in the northern parts of the northwest section and the northern central section
- * Osterlinde – north of the northwest section
- * Lichtenberg – north of the northwest section
- * Gebhardshagen – on the transition of the northwestern section to the northern central section
- * Bad – on the transition from the northern to the southern central section
- * Ringelheim – west of the transition from the northern to the southern central section
- Liebenburg – on the transition from the northern to the southern central section
- * Dörnten – west of the southern section
- * Groß Döhren – east of the southern section
- * Othfresen – south of the southern central section
- Vienenburg – a few kilometres east of the southern section
- * Immenrode – southeast of the southern section
- * Weddingen – southeast of the southern section
- Goslar – south of the extreme southern end of the southern section
- * Hahndorf – south of the southern section
- * Jerstedt – southwest of southern section