Damme Hills

Damme Hills Dammer Berge
The Damme Hills from the air: view from the direction of Steinfeld towards Damme, with the telecommunication tower, transmitter mast and "Damme Bergsee" (background)
Highest point
Peak	Signalberg
Elevation	146 m (479 ft)
Geography
State	near Damme; Vechta, Lower Saxony  Germany
Range coordinates	52°33′N 8°13′E / 52.55°N 8.22°E / 52.55; 8.22Coordinates: 52°33′N 8°13′E / 52.55°N 8.22°E / 52.55; 8.22
Geology
Type of rock	End moraine of the Saale glaciation

The Damme Hills are a high, wooded ridge, up to 146 m above sea level (NN), in the Oldenburg Münsterland in the southern part of the district of Vechta, in western Lower Saxony, Germany.

The ridge of the Damme Hills, which is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long and only a few kilometers wide, lies on the southern edge of the North German Plain about 34 kilometres (21 mi) north of the city of Osnabrück. It is located in the Dümmer Nature Park near the town of Damme, which lies in the centre of the region, and between Lohne (some distance to the north), Steinfeld (to the north), Diepholz (roughly east-northeast), Neuenkirchen-Vörden (to the southwest) and Holdorf (to the northwest). To the east the river Hunte flows from south to north past the ridge; to the west the river Hase runs in the same direction.

The Damme Hills lie in the southwestern part of the Oldenburg Münsterland, which is why the local Signal Hill (Signalberg, 146 m) is its highest elevation. To the northeast stretch the Großes Moor (near Vechta) and the hill of the Kellenberg; east of the ridge is the Dümmer, and behind it the Stemweder Berg, to the south – on the other side of the Großes Moor (near Damme) – are the Wiehen Hills in the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehen Hills Nature Park and to the west on the other side of the Hase valley are the Ankum Heights.