page_title: Ambergau
section_title: Name
hierarchical_section_title: Ambergau / Name
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Morgennebel im Ambergau, Landkreis Hildesheim. Rechts der Bildmitte am Horizont der Brocken im Harz.
context_page_description: The Ambergau is a historic landscape and natural region unit in the Innerste Uplands in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a basin, about 10 x 10 kilometres across, with 18 settlements, the centre and capital of which since the 13th century is the town of Bockenem. The basin, with its fertile agricultural fields, is surrounded by the wooded ridges of Heber, the Harplage, the Weinberg and the Hainberg. The Gau is a cultural landscape that was formed as early as the 8th century.
context_section_description: The name Ambergau is a combination of the German words Amber and Gau. Amber has its origin in the Proto-Indo-European language and has the word stem mb(h), was means something like dampness. That is probably related to the wet areas that existed at that time, like those of the River Nette. Gau is a word for the enclosed settlement area of Germanic peoples. The term Ambergo was also used.
caption: Morning mist in the Ambergau
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