title: Hoher Hagen (Dransfeld)
text: # Hoher Hagen (Dransfeld)
  
  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.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The hill, which is located south of Dransfeld, is the highest point in the Dransfeld region by a long way. It lies within the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, a hill massif in the Münden Nature Park that is about halfway between Göttingen to the northeast and Hann. Münden to the southwest.
  
  * View from Hoher Hagen looking northeast over Göttingen to the Harz
  * View of Jühnde from the Gauß Tower on the Hoher Hagen
  
  ### Gauß Tower
  
  On top of the Hoher Hagen stands the Gauß Tower, a 51 metre high observation tower at 478 m above NN.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Rehkop, Friedel: Stadt Dransfeld. Ein geschichtlicher Rückblick vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Frühzeit. Vol. 1. Horb am Neckar: Geiger-Verlag, 1999. S.196-200,352-360,387-397. ISBN 3-89570-561-6
  