Dransfeld (Samtgemeinde)

Dransfeld is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km west of Göttingen. Dransfeld is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Dransfeld.

The Dransfeld Municipal Forest (German: Dransfelder Stadtwald) is situated on a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands that ascends to 480 m high. It is located in the district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony. Although its name suggests a forest within a town, Dranfeld Municipal Forest is actually a small, heavily forested high ridge that lies about halfway between the city of Göttingen to the northeast and the town of Hann. Münden to the southwest; it is east of the Bramwald and immediately south of the city of Dransfeld. The B3 federal highway runs through the western foothills of the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, located in the northern part of the Münden Nature Park. Named hills in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest include: Hoher Hagen (originally 508 m) - with its Gauß Tower Brunsberg (480 m) Hengelsberg (463 m) - with the source of the Auschnippe and the nearby "Giesekestein" monument Dransberg (422 m) Schotsberg (419 m) Lohberg (312 m)

The Hoher Hagen is a volcanic hill that is still 480 m high today, in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, in the German district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony.

The Gauss Tower is a reinforced concrete observation tower on the summit of the Hoher Hagen in Dransfeld, Germany. The tower can be reached directly by car. A restaurant with a panoramic view is located inside the tower. The tower is named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, who made the large triangle from the Hohen Hagen break into Inselsberg a basis of his survey of Hanover. From 1909 to 1963, there had already been a Gaussturm nearby. It broke when a quarry was expanded too far in the 1950s.

Jühnde is a municipality in the south of the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Recently, the village has come to be known as the first so-called "bio energy village" in Germany. Since autumn 2005, the heat and electricity supplies for the village have been entirely harnessed from waste products collected from the surrounding fields, by feeding them into a one-of-a-kind biogas plant.

Niemetal is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Barterode is an urban subdivision in Adelebsen municipality in the south of Lower Saxony, situated about 12 km to the west of Göttingen.

Knutbühren is a village in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a western borough of Göttingen. Administratively, it forms a unit (here, Ortschaft) with Groß Ellershausen and Hetjershausen. There were 129 residents in 2006.

Scheden is a village in the district of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. The commune of Scheden consists of the three villages: Scheden, Meensen, and Dankelshausen. The river Schede runs through the village. In 2020 the population was 1,871.

Adelebsen is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It consists of the localities Adelebsen, Barterode, Eberhausen, Erbsen, Güntersen, Lödingsen and Wibbecke. The Burg Adelebsen is located on a high point in Adelebsen proper. Ernst Gräfenberg, a medical doctor, who first described the g-spot was born here.

Bühren is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Auschnippe (German for 'cut out') is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows on the west side of Adelebsen before following through Dransfeld and then into the Schwülme.