Osnabrück Uplands


The Osnabrück Uplands, Osnabrück Hills or, less commonly, Osnabrück Hill Country, are the low hills, or Hügelland, rarely over, in the northwest of the Lower Saxon Hills near Osnabrück in Germany. They are bounded by the Wiehen Hills to the north and the Teutoburg Forest to the south. Regionally, especially in tourism, they are often referred to locally as the Osnabrücker Bergland, however this is usually not a precisely defined physical landscape, but refers to an area roughly comprising the municipal boundaries of Osnabrück and a narrow radius around the city. By contrast the natural region major unit known as the Osnabrücker Hügelland extends from north-west of Ibbenbüren to the Melle Hills north of Melle, behind which is their south-eastern continuation, the Ravensberg Hills.
The Osnabrück Uplands form the heart of the cultural region of Osnabrück Land. The unpopulated areas of the region, which covers 748.5 km2, are a central part of the TERRA.vita Nature and Geopark.

Natural regions

The Osnabrück Uplands are divided from north to south as follows:
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  • **535 Osnabrück Uplands
  • ***535.2 Achmer Foreland
  • ****535.20 Neuenkirchen Plateau
  • ****535.21 Gehn
  • ****535.22 Vinter Lowlands
  • ****535.23 Wallenbrock Lowlands
  • ****535.24 Seeste Plateau
  • ****535.25 Halener Sande
  • ***535.0 Northern Osnabrück Uplands
  • ****535.01 Barlager Sande
  • ****535.00 Wallenhorst Uplands
  • ****535.02 Schledehausen Hills
  • ****535.03 Melle Heights
  • ***535.3 Western Osnabrück Uplands Westliches Osnabrücker Hügelland
  • ****535.30 Westerkappelen Hill Country Westerkappelner Flachwellenland
  • ****535.31 Mettingen Foreland
  • ****535.32 Schafberg Plateau
  • ****535.33 Ibbenbüren Basin
  • ****535.34 |Habichtswald
  • ****535.35 Leeden Basin
  • ***535.1 Haseniederung
  • ****535.10 Halen Depression
  • ****535.11 Osnabruck Depression
  • ***535.4 Southern Osnabrück Uplands
  • ****535.40 Holte Uplands
  • ****535.41 Ösede Basin
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  • ****534.00 Hüggel, berge

Hills

Among the most important high points in the Osnabruck Uplands are the following – sorted by height in metres above sea level (NHN):

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