| Sieben Berge | |
| Map: | Germany Lower Saxony |
| Country: | Germany |
| State: | Lower Saxony |
| District: | Hildesheim district |
| Parent: | Leine Uplands |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
| Highest: | Hohe Tafel |
| Range Coordinates: | 52.025°N 9.825°W |
The Sieben Berge ("Seven Hills") are a ridge of hills up to in the Lower Saxon Hills in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. Together with the Vorberge and the Sackwald the Sieben Berge belong to the geological formation of the Sackmulde.
They are famous as a result of the fairy tale, Snow White.
The Sieben Berge ridge is located in the east of the Leine Uplands, a northern part of the Lower Saxon Hills. It lies between Gronau on the Leine to the north, Sibbesse to the northeast and Alfeld to the south.
The Sieben Berge are surrounded by the hills of the Hildesheim Forest to the northeast, the Sauberge to the east-northeast, the Vorberge to the east and the Sackwald to the southeast. To the west runs the valley of the Leine, behind which rises the Ith ridge. Topographically it transitions to the Vorberge almost seamlessly. Within and on the edge of the Sieben Berge rise several brooks whose waters flow, sooner or later, into the Leine.
There are no roads through the unpopulated Sieben Berge, but it is crossed by several forest tracks and walking trails (including the roughly 15 km long Snow White Path, which was named in 2002), on which the wooded terrain can be explored. It may be reached via, for example, the winding state road (Landesstraße) of the L 485 which branches off the B 3 in Alfeld, and which runs northeast linking Alfeld with Sibbesse and, further to the north, Hildesheim.
The Sieben Berge gained fame from the tale of Snow White, written in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm. In the fairy tale, Snow White lives with the seven dwarfs behind the Siebe Berge.
The Sieben Berge, whose highest hill is the Hohe Tafel, comprise the following elevations as seen from north to south (heights in metres above Normalnull):
Other elevations that border on the Sieben Berge are (in order of height):
The Nußberg, which is found north of the hill range, is sometimes counted - according to various sources - instead of the Himmelberg, which is in the extreme southeast of the ridge, as either the first or seventh hill in the Sieben Berge.
The waterways in and around the Sieben Berge include the:
Settlements on the edge of the Sieben Berge include the: