Wiehen Hills
![Wiehen Hills](/Images/godic/202502/21/Blick-zum-Wiehengebirge31908.JPG")
![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](/Images/godic/202502/21/Karte_Niedersaechsisches_Bergland1908.jpg")
![The Porta Westfalica defines the eastern end of the Wiehen Hills (left). To the east, on the other side of the Weser, the hills continue as the Wesergebirge (right).](/Images/godic/202502/21/PortaWestfalica21908.jpg")
![The Wiehen Hills in the fog](/Images/godic/202502/21/Wiehengebirge_mit_Nebel1908.JPG")
The Wiehen Hills (German:Wiehengebirge, also locally, just Wiehen) are a hill 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 northernmost of the German Central Upland ranges extending into the Northern Lowlands. Their highest hill is the Heidbrink near Lübbecke with an altitude of 320 metres (1,050 ft).