Hoher Hagen (Dransfeld)

Hoher Hagen
File:Hoher Hagen von Scheden aus.JPG The Hohe Hagen seen from Scheden. The B 3 is in the foreground.
Highest point
Elevation	480 m above sea level (NN) (1,570 ft)
Coordinates
Geography
Hoher Hagen Lower Saxony, Germany
Geology
Mountain type	basalt extrusion volcano

File:Hoherhagen-basaltsteinbruch.jpg

View into the basalt quarry in January 2007

The Hoher Hagen is a volcanic hill that is still 480 m high today, in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, in the German district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony.

Geography

The hill, which is located south of Dransfeld, is the highest point in the Dransfeld region by a long way. It lies within the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, a hill massif in the Münden Nature Park that is about halfway between Göttingen to the northeast and Hann. Münden to the southwest.

File:Blick hoher hagen harz.jpg View from Hoher Hagen looking northeast over Göttingen to the Harz

File:Jühnde vom Gaußturm.jpg View of Jühnde from the Gauß Tower on the Hoher Hagen

Gauß Tower

On top of the Hoher Hagen stands the Gauß Tower, a 51 metre high observation tower at 478 m above NN.

Sources

• Rehkop, Friedel: Stadt Dransfeld. Ein geschichtlicher Rückblick vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Frühzeit. Vol. 1. Horb am Neckar: Geiger-Verlag, 1999. S.196-200,352-360,387-397. ISBN 3-89570-561-6

External links

• Further information about the Hoher Hagen
• School hall of residence and educational establishment on the Hoher Hagen
• Information on the Gauss Tower on the Hoher Hagen
• Information on the Hasenmelkerlauf