Benther Berg
# Benther Berg

The Benther Berg is a ridge, up to 173.3 m above sea level (NN), in the Calenberg Land near Benthe in Hanover Region in the German state of Lower Saxony.

## Location

The Benther Berg is about 3.5 kilometres long and 500 m wide. It lies west-southwest of the city of Hanover and borders immediately on the city boundary.

It lies between the following towns and villages: Lenthe [de] (borough of Gehrden) to the north and, somewhater further away in each case, Velber [de] (borough of Seelze) to the north-northeast and the Hanoverian villages of Badenstedt [de] and Davenstedt [de] to the northeast.

Immediately on its slopes are Benthe, that belongs to the borough of Ronnenberg, and the settlement to the south near the Seven Stocky Stones [de]. On the far side of Benthe to the east is Empelde. To the south on the slope of the Benther Berg is Everloh [de] with its manor of Erichshof and to the west is Northen [de] (both in the borough of Gehrden). The Bundesstraße 65 [de] federal road runs by the ridge, roughly in an east-west direction, to the south and east.

## History

On the Benther Berg are protohistorical tumuli from the Bronze Age. The name of the hill comes from the nearby village of Benthe to the south.

## Sources

* Hannovers Natur entdecken, erleben, verstehen. Arbeitskreis des Verbandes Deutscher Biologen (Landesverband Niedersachsen). ed. by Elisabeth von Falkenhausen (et al.). Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer 1998. ISBN 3-7800-5263-6
