The
Ambergau is a historic landscape and natural region unit in the
Innerste Uplands in southern
Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a basin, about 10 x 10 kilometres across, with 18 settlements (there were 31 in the
Middle Ages), the centre and capital of which since the 13th century is the town of
Bockenem. The basin, with its fertile agricultural fields, is surrounded by the wooded ridges of
Heber, the
Harplage, the Weinberg and the
Hainberg. The
Gau is a
cultural landscape that was formed as early as the 8th century.