Hankenüll, Mountain summit in Teutoburg Forest, Germany.
Hankenüll is a wooded summit of the Teutoburg Forest, 307 m above sea level, on the state border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Its name means "high-lying peak". The summit lies 3 km east-northeast of Dissen and 4.3 km northwest of Borgholzhausen, within the TERRA.vita nature and geopark.
The name Hankenüll means "high-lying summit", a description of the wooded ridge between Dissen and Borgholzhausen. The summit lies on the border of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, within the TERRA.vita nature and geopark. Since 1972 and 2004, parts of its slopes have been protected as Landschaftsschutzgebiete, and the northern side also falls within two FFH areas of the Teutoburg Forest.
The name Hankenüll means "high-lying summit", a description of the wooded hill between Dissen and Borgholzhausen. The summit lies on the border of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, within the TERRA.vita nature and geopark, and parts of it fall under the Teutoburg Forest protected landscape areas.
The summit lies on the state border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, 3 km east-northeast of Dissen and 4.3 km northwest of Borgholzhausen. The wooded hilltop lies within the TERRA.vita nature and geopark and is protected as a landscape area and FFH site. Approach from either town; the Hase rises to the northeast and the Aabach to the south.
The name Hankenüll translates from Low German as "high-lying summit". The wooded hill lies in the TERRA.vita nature and geopark, and the Hase, a tributary of the Ems, rises to its northeast while the Aabach, a Hessel tributary, rises to the south.
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