The
Gehn is a small ridge of hills between
BramscheBramsche is a town in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about 20 km north of Osnabrück, at . Population is 30858 .In 1971/72 12 previously independent municipalities were included into the town.*Achmer*Balkum...
and Ueffeln in Germany's
Central UplandsThe Central Uplands or Mittelgebirge is one of the three major natural regions of Germany and covers most of the land area of the country. To the north lies the North German Plain or Northern Lowland; to the south, the Alps and the Alpine Foreland....
, that are an extension of the Wiehen Hills .
The ridge runs from northwest to southeast and is about long and an average of wide. The highest point is the Kettelberg which is high. The Gehn forms a link between the
WiehengebirgeThe Wiehen Hills is a low mountain range in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. It stretches east-west, beginning at the Weser River near Minden and terminating in the vicinity of Osnabrück....
and the Ankum Heights (
Ankumer Höhe). It is largely forested and is not - like the Ankum Heights- part of a series of
ice ageThe general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual...
terminal moraineA terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a moraine that forms at the end of the glacier called the snout.Terminal moraines mark the maximum advance of the glacier. An end moraine is at the present boundary of the glacier....
s from the latest event of the Saalian glaciation, the so-called Drenthe I stage, but is a ridge of Jurassic rock that was pushed up during the folding towards the end of the
CretaceousThe Cretaceous , Latin language for "chalky", usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...
period.
Like the Wiehen Hills and the Ankum Heights the Gehn belongs to the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehen Hills Nature Park (
Naturpark Nördlicher Teutoburger Wald-Wiehengebirge).
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The
Gehn is a small ridge of hills between
BramscheBramsche is a town in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about 20 km north of Osnabrück, at . Population is 30858 .In 1971/72 12 previously independent municipalities were included into the town.*Achmer*Balkum...
and Ueffeln in Germany's
Central UplandsThe Central Uplands or Mittelgebirge is one of the three major natural regions of Germany and covers most of the land area of the country. To the north lies the North German Plain or Northern Lowland; to the south, the Alps and the Alpine Foreland....
, that are an extension of the Wiehen Hills .
The ridge runs from northwest to southeast and is about long and an average of wide. The highest point is the Kettelberg which is high. The Gehn forms a link between the
WiehengebirgeThe Wiehen Hills is a low mountain range in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. It stretches east-west, beginning at the Weser River near Minden and terminating in the vicinity of Osnabrück....
and the Ankum Heights (
Ankumer Höhe). It is largely forested and is not - like the Ankum Heights- part of a series of
ice ageThe general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual...
terminal moraineA terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a moraine that forms at the end of the glacier called the snout.Terminal moraines mark the maximum advance of the glacier. An end moraine is at the present boundary of the glacier....
s from the latest event of the Saalian glaciation, the so-called Drenthe I stage, but is a ridge of Jurassic rock that was pushed up during the folding towards the end of the
CretaceousThe Cretaceous , Latin language for "chalky", usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago . In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows on the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...
period.
Like the Wiehen Hills and the Ankum Heights the Gehn belongs to the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehen Hills Nature Park (
Naturpark Nördlicher Teutoburger Wald-Wiehengebirge).
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