The Richelsdorf Hills (German: Richelsdorfer Gebirge) is the name given to a landscape in the German Central Uplands. The terrain is up to 478.2 m above sea level (NHN) high and forms a landscape characterised by mining (copper shale, cobalt, nickel) in the county of Hersfeld-Rotenburg in East Hesse. Despite its German suffix Gebirge ("hill range") these hills are not a true hill range, but a cultural landscape.[1] Locally this also includes the whole surrounding region in the southeast of the Fulda-Werra Uplands; parts of the county of Werra-Meißner-Kreis to the south and the extreme northwest of the Thuringian county of Wartburgkreis are included.
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- ^ Nationalatlas Deutschland, Vol. 2, Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, ISBN 3-8274-0953-5
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- Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
- Map service
- Landscape fact file: Fulda-Werra Uplands
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50°59′49″N 09°55′33″E / 50.99694°N 9.92583°E
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