Ankum - Artlander Dom, Ankumer Hohe, Giersfeld, Ankum-Bersenbrucker Eisenbahn (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Ankum Heights (German: ), also called the Furstenau Hills (Furstenauer Berge), are a ridge of hills up to 140 m high in the western part of the state of Lower Saxony on the North German Plain. From the slope of the Kalberberg near Obersteinbeck the silhouetter of the Ankum Heights can be made out on the horizon. Relief map of the Ankum HeightsThe densely-forested Ankum Heights, which are about 20 kilometres (12 mi) long and only a few kilometres wide, lies roughly 34 kilometres (21 mi) north-northwest of the city of Osnabruck on the boundary of the districts of Emsland and Osnabruck between Herzlake to the northwest and Bramsche to the southeast, Furstenau in the southwest and Bersenbruck in the northeast. The southeastern foothills of the ridge, which form the northwestern part of the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehen Hills Nature Park reach almost as far as the Alfsee lake. East of the Ankum Heights are the Damme Hills, to the southeast are the west-northwestern outliers of the Wiehen Hills, to the south is Tecklenburg Land and the northwestern outliers of the Teutoburg Forest, to the west the Lingen Heights and the Emsland, in the northwest the Hummling and to the north the Oldenburg Munsterland. The Ankum Heights are part of a series of ice age end moraines from the early part of the Saale glaciation, the so-called Drenthe I stage. The Lingen Heights, the Damme Hills, the Kellenberg and the Brelinger Berg also belong to this push moraine, also called the Rehburg Phase, which can be dated to about 230,000 years ago. The Rehburg Hills by the lake of the Steinhuder Meer, are not, however, part of the moraine. Together with their almost symmetrical counterpart, the Damme Hills, the Ankum Heights display the most marked glacial lobes of this push moraine. It filled the lowland bay of the Artland. Several tumuli indicate that the Ankum Heights were already occupied in prehistoric times. ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d