The Salzgitter Hills (above right) form a ridge bounding the northeast and east of the Innerste Uplands.
The Salzgitter Hills (German: Salzgitter-Höhenzug, also Salzgitterscher Höhenzug) is an area of upland up to 322.9 metres (1,059 ft) in height, in the Lower Saxon Hills between Salzgitter and Goslar in the districts of Wolfenbüttel and Goslar and in the territory of the independent town of Salzgitter. The hills lie in the German federal state of Lower Saxony.
The German name of Salzgitter-Höhenzug is a term used in the northern Harz Foreland, albeit not found on maps, and is used to mean the string of hills north of the Harz Mountains between the towns mentioned above.
The state forest of the Salzgitter Hills is managed by several Lower Saxony forestry offices, including the Revierförsterei Salder in Salzgitter-Salder.
The Salzgitter Hills can be divided into these four unnamed sections:
Northwest section (mainly comprising the Lichtenberge) (up to 254.2 m high; between Holle and Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen)
North-central section (up to 275.3 m high; between Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen and Salzgitter-Bad)
South-central section (up to 307.0 m high; between Salzgitter-Bad and Liebenburg)
Southern section (up to 322.9 m high; between Liebenburg and Goslar-Immenrode and Goslar-Hahndorf)
South of the Lichtenberge and also in the northwest section is a ridge that is separated from them by the valley of the Oelber Bach, in which the village of Oelber on white hills and the settlement of Altenhagen lies. It consists of the following:
Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde and Raumforschung: Geographische Landesaufnahme 1:200000. Naturräumliche Gliederung Deutschlands. Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 86 Hannover. Bad Godesberg 1960