Selter (hills)

Selter
Overview map: Selter roughly lower centre, Ith and Hils to the left of it with the Wallensen Basin in between
Highest point
Peak	Hohe Egge (Selter)
Elevation	395 m (1,296 ft)
Dimensions
Length	11 km (6.8 mi)
Geography
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
Range coordinates	51°54′18″N 9°53′32″E / 51.905°N 9.89222°E / 51.905; 9.89222Coordinates: 51°54′18″N 9°53′32″E / 51.905°N 9.89222°E / 51.905; 9.89222
Parent range	Leine Uplands
Geology
Age of rock	Middle Jurassic, Upper Jurassic
Type of rock	limestone, marl, claystone, siltstone, sandstone

The Selter is a ridge, up to 395 m above NN, in the Lower Saxon Hills in the districts of Hildesheim, Holzminden and Northeim in the German state of Lower Saxony.

The Selter is a narrow ridge in the Alfeld Uplands, part of the Leine Uplands in the Lower Saxon Hills. It is about 11 kilometres long and lies in the rectangle formed by the villages of Alfeld, Freden, Kreiensen and Delligsen. It lies between Delligsen to the northwest, Imsen to the north, Freden to the east, Erzhausen to the southeast, Greene to the south-southeast, Naensen to the south, Stroit and Ammensen to the southwest and Varrigsen to the west. Its virtual centre lies near Freden.

Amongst the hills of the Selter are the following − sorted by height in metres above sea level (NN)