The
Weser Uplands (
German:
Weserbergland) is a hill region (
Bergland = uplands, hills or hill region) in
Germany (
Lower Saxony,
Hesse, and
North Rhine-Westphalia, between
Hannoversch Münden and
Porta Westfalica near the river
Weser. Important cities of this region include
Bad Karlshafen,
Holzminden,
Höxter,
Bodenwerder,
Hameln,
Rinteln, and
Vlotho. The tales of the
Brothers Grimm are set in the Weser Uplands, and it has many
renaissance buildings, exhibiting a peculiar regional style, the so-called
Weser Renaissance style. The region roughly coincides with the
natural region of the
Lower Saxon Hills defined by the
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation or BfN.