Several of these hills - the Wilseder Berg, the Falkenberg, the Haußelberg and the Breithorn - were used by the mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss, as triangulation stations in his topographical surveys of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1821–1825.
Mitmed neist küngastest – Wilseder Berg, Falkenberg, Haußelberg ja Breithorn – olid matemaatik Carl Friedrich Gaussi poolt kasutusel triangulatsioonipunktidena tema topograafilistel mõõdistustel Hannoveri kuningriigis aastatel 1821–1825.