South of the Wiehen Hills lie Osnabrück, Bissendorf, Melle, Kirchlengern, Bünde, Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen.
South of Bramsche the ridge rises again at the Penter Egge to a height of 99 metre, but 2.5 km further west it reaches the level of the surrounding countryside.
It clearly ignores the morainic ridges further north and closer to the sea, as well as other true uplands such as the Stemweder Berg or the Rehburg Hills.
Of the higher, say up to 300-metre-high (980 ft) uplands, the northern foothills of Deister and Bückeberge extend farther north than the eastern Wiehen range.
The Heidbrink, at almost 320 metres high, is also the northernmost "three-hundred" on the European continent between the central Ural Mountains and the Atlantic, i.e. excluding the British Isles and Fennoscandinavia.
Wiehen Hills
Location of the Wiehen Hills in the
Lower Saxon Hills
. It is easy to see that it forms a single geomorphological unit with the Gehn, Weser Hills and Süntel. As the map clearly shows, the Wiehen Hills are the northernmost finger of the main body of the German
Central Uplands
. By contrast, other groups of "real" hills (excluding moraines), such as the
Stemmer Berge
or the
Rehburger Berge
at the upper edge of the map not far from the lakes of the
Dümmer
and
Steinhuder Meer
, lie like islands in the North German Plain.
The
Porta Westfalica
defines the eastern end of the Wiehen Hills (left). To the east, on the other side of the Weser, the hills continue as the
Wesergebirge
(right).
