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Wiehen Hills  The Wiehen Hills[1] (German: Wiehengebirge, also
locally, just Wiehen) are a low mountain range in North Rhine-
Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. The hills run from west
to east like a long finger away from the main upland area of the
Lower Saxon Hills, beginning at the Weser River near Minden and
terminating in the vicinity of Osnabrück. It is the northern
apophysis of the German low mountain ranges in the northern
lowlands. The highest mountain is the Heidbrink near Lübbecke
with an altitude of 320 metres (1,050 ft).  Location of the
Wiehen Hills in the Lower Saxon Hills. It is easy to see that it
forms a single geomor-phological 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 Berg