Kleiner Knollen

Kleiner Knollen
Kleiner Knollen
	Kleiner Knollen Lower Saxony, Germany
Highest point
Elevation	631 m above sea level (NN) (2,070.2 ft)
Prominence	41 m → Großer Knollen
Isolation	0.8 km → Großer Knollen
Coordinates	51°39′42″N 10°25′12″E
Geography
Location	Lower Saxony, Germany
Parent range	Harz Mountains

The Kleiner Knollen is a 631 metre high mountain in the southwestern part of the Harz in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Geography

The Kleiner Knollen is located east of Herzberg am Harz, northeast of Scharzfeld, northwest of Bad Lauterberg im Harz and south of Sieber. It is dominated by the Großen Knollen (687 m), about 1 km to the northeast. The Kleiner Knollen is afforested by spruce.

Forest

Today the lower slopes of the Kleiner Knollen are predominantly covered by beech trees and its upper slopes by spruce. In 1596 it was entirely covered in beech trees, in 1630 also partly with sycamore.[1]

References

Begemann, Ina (2003). Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte von Umwelt und Besiedlung im südwestlichen Harzvorland (unter Einbeziehung geochemischer Befunde), Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, Göttingen, p. 46, Weblink Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (pdf, 2890kB)

Sources

Topographische Karte 1:25000, No. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz

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[1] Begemann, Ina (2003). Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte von Umwelt und Besiedlung im südwestlichen Harzvorland (unter Einbeziehung geochemischer Befunde), Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, Göttingen, p. 46, Weblink Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (pdf, 2890kB)