Ebbe Mountains
The Ebbe Mountains[1][2] (German: Ebbegebirge) or Ebbe form a range of uplands up to 663.3 m above sea level (NN) high in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. They have given their name to the Ebbe Mountain Nature Park and are part of the Süder Uplands within the Rhine Massif.
Geography
Location
The Ebbe lies in the Sauerland in the districts of Märkischer Kreis and Olpe. It stretches between Herscheid and Plettenberg (outside the area) in the north, Attendorn and Finnentrop (outside the area) in the east, the Biggesee in the south and Kierspe and Meinerzhagen in the west, where the Ebbe Hills are surrounded by the Ebbe Hills Nature Park. It is grazed by the A 45 motorway in the west.
Hills
The highest elevation in the Ebbe Mountains is the Nordhelle (663.3 m above NN) between Valbert and Herscheid. Other notable hills are the: Rehberg (645.9 m), Rüenhardt (636.0 m), Waldberg (ca. 635 m), Rothenstein (ca. 600 m), Der Griesing (552,6 m), Homert (538,3 m) and Kahler Kopf (540.1 m).
Rivers and lakes
The following rivers rise in the Ebbe or around its edges: the Bruchbach, Else, Fürwigge, Ihne, Lister, Oesterbach, Verse and Volme. Within the Ebbe and its foothills are the Ahaus Reservoir, the Biggesee and the Fürwigge, Jubach, Lister, Oester and Verse Dams.
- The Ebbe Mountains near Herscheid
References
External links
- Ebbe Hills Nature Park
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- Anterior Bavarian Forest Einödriegel
- Black Forest Feldberg
- Bohemian Forest Großer Arber (Bavarian Forest Großer Arber)
- Deister Bröhn
- Ebbe Mountains Nordhelle
- Egge Mountains (Prussian) Velmerstot
- Eifel Hohe Acht (Volcanic Eifel Ernstberg)
- Elbe Sandstone Mountains Großer Zschirnstein
- Elm Eilumer Horn
- Elster Mountains Kapellenberg
- Fichtel Mountains Schneeberg (Steinwald Platte, Kohlwald Sieben-Linden-Berg)
- Franconian Forest Döbraberg
- Franconian Jura Dürrenberg
- Gladenbach Uplands Angelburg
- Goshawk Forest Hohes Gras
- Harz Brocken (Blocksberg)
- Hildesheim Forest Griesberg
- Hils Bloße Zelle
- Hoher Meißner Kasseler Kuppe
- Hunsrück Erbeskopf (Soonwald Ellerspring)
- Ith Lauensteiner Kopf
- Kaiserstuhl Totenkopf
- Kaufungen Forest Hirschberg
- Kellerwald Wüstegarten
- Knüll Eisenberg
- Kyffhäuser Kulpenberg
- Lenne Mountains Homert
- Lippe Uplands Köterberg
- North Palatine Uplands Donnersberg
- Odenwald Katzenbuckel
- Ore Mountains Fichtelberg
- Palatine Forest Kalmit
- Rhön Wasserkuppe
- Rothaar Mountains Langenberg
- Saalhausen Hills Himberg
- Siebengebirge Großer Ölberg
- Solling Große Blöße
- Spessart Geiersberg (Breitsol)
- Sudetes Lausche (Luž) (Lusatian Mountains Lausche (Luž) (Zittau Mountains Lausche (Luž)))
- Süntel Hohe Egge
- Swabian Jura Lemberg (Randen Hoher Randen)
- Taunus Großer Feldberg
- Teutoburg Forest (Osning) Barnacken
- Thuringian Forest Großer Beerberg
- Thuringian Slate Mountains Großer Farmdenkopf
- Upper Palatine Forest Kreuzfelsen
- Vogelsberg Taufstein
- Weser Hills Paschenburg Mountain
- Westerwald Fuchskaute
- Wiehen Hills Heidbrink