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Siebengebirge

Coordinates:50°40′46″N07°14′54″E / 50.67944°N 7.24833°E /50.67944; 7.24833
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Not to be confused withSiebenbürgen.
Seven Hills
Seven Hills, 1900
Highest point
PeakGroßer Ölberg
Elevation460 m (1,510 ft)
Coordinates50°40′46″N07°14′54″E / 50.67944°N 7.24833°E /50.67944; 7.24833
Naming
Native nameSiebengebirge (German)
Geography
Area map of Seven Hills
CountryGermany
Region(s)North Rhine-Westphalia andRhineland-Palatinate
Geology
OrogenyVolcanic
Rock ageOligocene
The castleSchloss Drachenburg is one of the landmarks of Seven Hills

TheSiebengebirge(German pronunciationⓘ), occasionallySieben Mountains orSeven Mountains, are ahill range of the GermanCentral Uplands on the east bank of theMiddle Rhine, southeast ofBonn.

Description

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The area, located in the municipalities ofBad Honnef andKönigswinter, consists of more than 40 hills. The hills are of ancientvolcanic origin and came into being between 28 and 15 million years ago. Much of the territory covered by Sieben Hills belongs to the Sieben Hills Nature Park (Naturpark Siebengebirge), which is under environmental protection.

The highest peak is theÖlberg at 460 metres above sea level. It is a populartourist destination for hiking, because of its natural environment.[citation needed]

Hills

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The seven most important hills:[citation needed]

Other hills:

  • Himmerich (366 m)
  • Trenkeberg (430 m)
  • Weilberg (297 m)
  • Stenzelberg (287 m)
  • Broderkonsberg (378 m)
  • Mittelberg (353 m)
  • Leyberg (359 m)
  • Jungfernhardt (320 m)
  • Geisberg (324 m)
  • Schallenberg (310 m)
  • Großer Breiberg (313 m)
  • Kleiner Breiberg (288 m)
  • Wasserfall (338 m)
  • Kleiner Ölberg (332 m)
  • Limperichsberg
  • Scharfenberg
  • Zickelburg (182 m)

Origin name

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Although some sources translate the name literally asSeven Hills,[1] wheresieben is modern German for "seven" and aGebirge is a hill range, alternative derivations for the name have been suggested. Three theories exist:

  1. The oldest name[2] was notSiebengebirge, butSieben Berge (septem montes, seven hills). Depending on the viewpoint near the river Rhine, one notices almost exactly seven hills, which are not always the same and not even the highest. Also, the numberseven used to denote an arbitrary amount of items, was connected to magic and thus had a highly symbolic meaning. This makes it an obvious name for an area that was said to be sinister and impenetrable before the 19th century.
  2. The wordsieben is derived from the wordsiefen which, in turn comes from theMiddle Low German wordsîpe "wet depression" or "little stream, brook",[3] the verbsîpen means "trickle, drip".[4]
  3. The nameSiebengebirge emerged from the wordSiedengebirge which indicated the presence of soap boilers ("Seifensieder"), who were banned from the valleys because boiling soap smelled so bad.

References

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  1. ^The Castles of the Rhine by Robert R. Taylor (2009). Retrieved 10 Feb 2015.
  2. ^Moller, 1590
  3. ^Karl Schiller; August Lübben (1878),Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), vol. 4, Bremen: Verlag von J. Küthmanns Buchhandlung, p. 215{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Digitalisat
  4. ^See the entrysiepen in theDeutsches Wörterbuch.

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