The Ohm Hills (, ) are a small range of hills up to high and about 50 km² in area. They are part of the Lower Eichsfeld region and are located in the county of Eichsfeld, North Thuringia, Germany.

Geography The Ohm Hills, most of which are densely wooded, whose southeastern foothills form the Bleicherode Hills, lie in the county of Eichsfeld on its boundary with Nordhausen. They are located between Weißenborn-Lüderode to the north, Bleicherode to the southeast, Worbis to the south and Teistungen to the west, and extend from the upper reaches of the River Helme in the north to the Wipper in the south. To the north and west the range is adjoined by historic landscape of the Lower Eichsfeld (Untereichsfeld), further south is the ridge of the Dün and to the southwest the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werra Valley Nature Park.

Natural region classification According to "Kassel map" of the natural regional classification of Germany the Ohm Hills are grouped as follows:Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural region units on Sheet 112 Kassel – Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg, 1969 → Online mapThe Ohm Hills only appear at the edge of Sheet 112, whilst the major part should have been on Sheet 113 Sondershausen, but it was decided in 1969 not to issue it. (to 37 Weser-Leine Uplands, Lower Saxon Hills) (375 Lower Eichsfeld) 375.2 Ohm Hills and Bleicherode Hills

The Thuringian State office for the Environment and Geology uses a rather coarser, self-published, region classification, within which the landscape of "Ohm Hills-Bleicherode Hills" is enclosed by the landscape unit "North Thuringian Buntsandstein Land".Kulturlandschaft, Thüringer Landesamt für Landwirtschaft und Ländlichen Raum

The muschelkalk ridges of the Ohm Hills and Bleicherode Hills are shown in both classifications as one contiguous natural region. They appear as a continuation of the hills fringing the northwestern perimeter of the Thuringian Basin interrupted only by the Lower Eichsfeld lowland.

Neighbouring natural regions listed clockwise are: Lower Eichsfeld including the Eichsfeld Bowl (Eichsfelder Kessel) to the south and the Zehnsberg to the west Eichsfeld Basin (Eichsfelder Becken) with the Duderstadt Basin to the northwest and the hill country of the Hellberge to the north Silkerode Hills on the far side of the Geroder Eller to the northeast North Thuringian Hills to the east

Hills

The following hills and high points belong to the Ohm Hills in its narrower sense and its foothills to the north and east, which are considered part of neighbouring natural regions, with elevations in metres above sea level (NN): Birkenberg (533.4 m), highest point of the Ohm Hills and a good lookout point north of Kaltohmfeld Bornberg (529.7 m), north of Kirchohmfeld Ohmberg (528.7 m), west of Hauröden Kälberberg (524.7 m), south of Kaltohmfeld Oberberg (496.5 m) Mittelberg (449.9 m) Ochsenberg (514.6 m), west of Kaltohmfeld Sonder (512.9 m), south of Holungen Trogberg (502.9 m), southeast of Wehnde Oberberg (496.5 m), northeast of Worbis Schwarzenberg (491.4 m), southeast of Brehme Hasenburg (487.4 m), southeast of Zeugenberg, north of Buhla Sonnenstein (485.6 m), northwest of Holungen Mittelberg (475.8 m), further north of Wintzingerode Heinrichsberg (478.4 m), northwest of Kirchohmfeld Himberg (474.0 m), west of Haynrode Mittelberg (465.9 m), between Kaltohmfeld und Breitenworbis Fernstein (464.0 m), east of Ferna Langenberg (462.6 m), north of Kirchworbis Ziegenrück (460,8 m), highest point of in the Bleicherode Hills, south of Buhla Haferberg (460.7 m), east of Kirchohmfeld Krantberg (455,6 m), north of Holungen Haarburg (453.1 m), southeastern Zeugenberg, southeast of Haynrode Wehenberg (440.8 m) Kanstein (435,5 m), northwest of Worbis Rottersberg (420.6 m), northwest of Worbis Winkelberg (415.2 m), east of Jützenbach Die Hardt (400,9 m), north of Worbis Großer Heuberg (389.0 m), northwest of Bischofferode Steinberg (385.8 m), eastern spur, west of Werningerode (municipality of Steinrode) Buchenberg (383.5 m), northeast of Brehme Bauerberg (361.6 m), eastern spur, east of Werningerode (boundary with county of Nordhausen) Stadtberg (351.2 m), northern spur, southwest of Jützenbach Hühnerberg (349.9 m), eastern spur, south of Bischofferode Sommerberg (342.1 m), northern spur, north of Brehme Nonnecke (338.5 m), northwestern spur, west of Wehnde

Rivers and streams The rivers and streams in the Ohm Hills include the: Hahle, rises at the southern edge of the Ohm Hills in Worbis, passes to the south, southern tributary of the Rhume Helme, rises in the northern foothills of the Ohm Hills, leaves them head east, western tributary of the Unstrut Wipper, rises on the southern edge of the Ohm Hills in Worbis, passes them to the east, western tributary of the Unstrut Bode, rises in the Ohm Hills, leaves them heading east, southwestern tributary of the Wipper

The Elbe-Weser Watershed runs through the Ohm Hills. Whilst the Hahle is part of the catchment area of the Leine and Weser rivers, the Bode, Helme and Wipper are in the Elbe's drainage basin.

Settlements The settlements in and on the edge of the Ohm Hills include:

Bischofferode (in the north) Bleicherode (südeast) Breitenworbis (south) Brehme Buhla (in the central south) Ecklingerode (northwest) Ferna (southwest) Großbodungen (in the northeast) Haynrode (in the central south) Holungen (in the north) Kehmstedt (east) Kaltohmfeld (in the centre) Kirchohmfeld (in the centre) Kirchworbis (south) Kraja (in the east) Neustadt (in the northeast) Sollstedt (südeast) Trebra (nordeast) Tastungen (west) Teistungen (west) Weißenborn-Lüderode (north) Wehnde (west) Wintzingerode (south) Wülfingerode (east) Worbis (south-southwest)

References

External links

BfN Landscape fact file