Bocksbühl, Mountain summit in the Upper Leinebergland, Lower Saxony, Germany
Bocksbühl is a forested summit in the Upper Leinebergland of southern Lower Saxony, between Ludolfshausen and Groß Schneen. It has two adjacent limestone (Muschelkalk) knolls: the Großer Bocksbühl at 437 m and the Kleiner Bocksbühl at about 420 m. The massif also includes the Fritzeberg (427 m) to the south and the Plesse (388.3 m) to the west.
The Bocksbühl is a Muschelkalk massif whose two summits, the Großer Bocksbühl at 437 m and the Kleiner Bocksbühl at about 420 m, rise roughly 100 m above the adjacent Buntsandstein plateau of the Reinhäuser Wald to the northeast. The Fritzeberg (427.0 m) about 500 m to the south and the Plesse (388.3 m) to the west belong to the same hill group. In the natural regional division the hill counts as part of the Reinhäuser Wald (No. 373.2) within the Göttingen-Northeimer Wald.
The two summits are named Grosser Bocksbühl (437 m) and Kleiner Bocksbühl (about 420 m), and the surrounding hill group also takes in the Fritzeberg (427 m) some 500 m south and the Plesse (388.3 m) to the west. Walkers reach the wooded tops on numerous trails from Ludolfshausen and Gross Schneen.
The summit lies roughly 12 kilometers south of Göttingen and can be reached via forest trails from the villages of Ludolfshausen and Groß Schneen. Marked hiking paths connect these access points and wind through woodland areas.
The two summits, Grosser Bocksbühl at 437 m and Kleiner Bocksbühl at about 420 m, are built of Muschelkalk and rise roughly 100 m above the adjacent Buntsandstein plateau of the Reinhäuser Wald. The wooded massif also takes in the Fritzeberg (427 m) about 500 m south and the Plesse (388.3 m) to the west.
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