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Hüggel

Ridge in the Osnabrück Uplands, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1646548
Source-derived summary

The Hüggel is a ridge, up to 225.6 m above sea level (NN), about 5 kilometres long and 1 kilometre wide, near Hasbergen in the Lower Saxon district of Osnabrück in central Germany. It is the highest point of the Osnabrück Uplands. This Upper Carboniferous outcrop is part of the Ibbenbüren Coalfield.

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Amongst the elevations in the Hüggel and its foothills − sorted by height in metres (m) above sea level (NN) - are the:

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External links

Photos of surviving galleries in the Hüggel Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine

Caves on the Hüggel: created by the mining industry or naturally formed?

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hüggel, Ridge and Osnabrück can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ridge in the Osnabrück Uplands, Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1646548. Authority coordinates are 52.223, 7.969. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Hüggel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.