Ohm Hills

The Ohm Hills (German: Ohmgebirge, pronounced [ˈoːmɡəˌbɪʁɡə]) are a small range of hills up to 533.4 m above sea level (NN) high and about 50 km² in area. They are part of the Lower Eichsfeld region and are located in the county of Eichsfeld, North Thuringia, Germany.

Geography

The Ohm Hills, most of which are densely wooded, whose southeastern foothills form the Bleicherode Hills, lie in the county of Eichsfeld on its boundary with Nordhausen. They are located between Weißenborn-Lüderode to the north, Bleicherode to the southeast, Worbis to the south and Teistungen to the west, and extend from the upper reaches of the River Helme in the north to the Wipper in the south. To the north and west the range is adjoined by historic landscape of the Lower Eichsfeld (Untereichsfeld), further south is the ridge of the Dün and to the southwest the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werra Valley Nature Park.

Natural region classification

According to "Kassel map" of the natural regional classification of Germany the Ohm Hills are grouped as follows:

(to 37 Weser-Leine Uplands, Lower Saxon Hills)

(375 Lower Eichsfeld)

375.2 Ohm Hills and Bleicherode Hills

The Thuringian State office for the Environment and Geology uses a rather coarser, self-published, region classification, within which the landscape of "Ohm Hills-Bleicherode Hills" is enclosed by the landscape unit "North Thuringian Buntsandstein Land".

The muschelkalk ridges of the Ohm Hills and Bleicherode Hills are shown in both classifications as one contiguous natural region. They appear as a continuation of the hills fringing the northwestern perimeter of the Thuringian Basin interrupted only by the Lower Eichsfeld lowland.

Neighbouring natural regions listed clockwise are:

Lower Eichsfeld including the Eichsfeld Bowl (Eichsfelder Kessel) to the south and the Zehnsberg to the west

Eichsfeld Basin (Eichsfelder Becken) with the Duderstadt Basin to the northwest and the hill country of the Hellberge to the north

Silkerode Hills on the far side of the Geroder Eller to the northeast

North Thuringian Hills to the east

Hills

The following hills and high points belong to the Ohm Hills in its narrower sense and its foothills to the north and east, which are considered part of neighbouring natural regions, with elevations in metres above sea level (NN):

Birkenberg (533.4 m), highest point of the Ohm Hills and a good lookout point north of Kaltohmfeld

Bornberg (529.7 m), north of Kirchohmfeld

Ohmberg (528.7 m), west of Hauröden

Kälberberg (524.7 m), south of Kaltohmfeld

Oberberg (496.5 m)

Mittelberg (449.9 m)

Ochsenberg (514.6 m), west of Kaltohmfeld

Sonder (512.9 m), south of Holungen

Trogberg (502.9 m), southeast of Wehnde

Oberberg (496.5 m), northeast of Worbis

Schwarzenberg (491.4 m), southeast of Brehme

Hasenburg (487.4 m), southeast of Zeugenberg, north of Buhla

Sonnenstein (485.6 m), northwest of Holungen

Mittelberg (475.8 m), further north of Wintzingerode

Heinrichsberg (478.4 m), northwest of Kirchohmfeld

Himberg (474.0 m), west of Haynrode

Mittelberg (465.9 m), between Kaltohmfeld und Breitenworbis

Fernstein (464.0 m), east of Ferna

Langenberg (462.6 m), north of Kirchworbis

Ziegenrück (460,8 m), highest point of in the Bleicherode Hills, south of Buhla

Haferberg (460.7 m), east of Kirchohmfeld

Krantberg (455,6 m), north of Holungen

Haarburg (453.1 m), southeastern Zeugenberg, southeast of Haynrode

Wehenberg (440.8 m)

Kanstein (435,5 m), northwest of Worbis

Rottersberg (420.6 m), northwest of Worbis

Winkelberg (415.2 m), east of Jützenbach

Die Hardt (400,9 m), north of Worbis

Großer Heuberg (389.0 m), northwest of Bischofferode

Steinberg (385.8 m), eastern spur, west of Werningerode (municipality of Steinrode)

Buchenberg (383.5 m), northeast of Brehme

Bauerberg (361.6 m), eastern spur, east of Werningerode (boundary with county of Nordhausen)

Stadtberg (351.2 m), northern spur, southwest of Jützenbach

Hühnerberg (349.9 m), eastern spur, south of Bischofferode

Sommerberg (342.1 m), northern spur, north of Brehme

Nonnecke (338.5 m), northwestern spur, west of Wehnde

Rivers and streams

The rivers and streams in the Ohm Hills include the:

Hahle, rises at the southern edge of the Ohm Hills in Worbis, passes to the south, southern tributary of the Rhume

Helme, rises in the northern foothills of the Ohm Hills, leaves them head east, western tributary of the Unstrut

Wipper, rises on the southern edge of the Ohm Hills in Worbis, passes them to the east, western tributary of the Unstrut

Bode, rises in the Ohm Hills, leaves them heading east, southwestern tributary of the Wipper

The Elbe-Weser Watershed runs through the Ohm Hills. Whilst the Hahle is part of the catchment area of the Leine and Weser rivers, the Bode, Helme and Wipper are in the Elbe's drainage basin.