page_title: Leine Uplands
section_title: Landscapes either side of the Leine trough
hierarchical_section_title: Leine Uplands / Geography / Landscapes either side of the Leine trough
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Weser-Leine-Bergland: Reliefkarte von Ith (mit Lauensteiner Kopf, 439 m) und Hils mit umgebenden Gebirgen/Höhenzügen; Niedersachsen, Deutschland. – Die Karte ist genordet, ein grober Maßstab ist unten links; zur Orientierung sind größere Städte und die beiden Flüsse Weser und Leine eingezeichnet.
context_page_description: The Leine Uplands is a region in Germany's Central Uplands which forms a part of the Lower Saxon Hills and lies along the River Leine between Göttingen and Hanover. It borders on the Weser Uplands in the west, the Innerste Uplands in the northeast, the Harz in the east and Untereichsfeld in the southeast.
context_section_description: The River Leine flows from Friedland via Göttingen and Northeim to Einbeck through the Leine trough (Leine-Ilm Basin), an important north-south orientated geological rift valley. On the hilltops along the valley of the Leine there are many castles that controlled the north-south road network in the valley during the Middle Ages and could also block it entirely.
  In the southeastern part of the Leine Uplands, east of the valley, is the plateau of the Göttingen-Northeim Forest which is founded on Bunter sandstone and Muschelkalk. The western edge of the forest (in a northerly direction) reaches from Friedland via Göttingen and Nörten-Hardenberg to Northeim. It is here that the largest group of abris in central Europe may be found. They are often located in the narrowest places in the ravine-like rocky valleys between the Leine and the Eichsfeld. In an area about 30 km long and 6 to 10 km wide around 1600 abris have been discovered. The woods (largely beech forests) are utilised by the forestry industry.
  To the north this landscape transitions into the equally thickly wooded escarpments and fault-block landscape of the  Southwest Harz Foreland, in which Jurassic limestone is found alongside Bunter and Muschelkalk. Immediately north of Einbeck the Hube, an outlier of the Southwest Harz Foreland, reaches the western side of the Leine and "blocks" the Leine trough to the north.
  West of the trough is the heath landscape of the latter opposite the intensively farmed Solling Foreland.
  Not counted as part of the Leine Uplands is the extreme east of the Southwest Harz Foreland and the extreme northwest of the  Solling Foreland around the Vogler.
caption: Overview map: The Leine at its exit from the Alfeld Uplands into the Calenberg Loess Börde
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