The Finne is a range of mountains, which marks, with its western foothills Schrecke and Schmücke, the Thuringian basin in the northeast.

    The Ilm and the Saale valleys in the southeast and the Unstrut valley in the north and west border the area. There is a line from Burgwenden to Langenroda from which the Finne branches into the Schmücke to the north and the Hohe Schrecke to the south. The distance from Bad Sulza in the northwest to Heldungen is about 40 kilometres.

    The area is nearly 12 kilometres wide at an elevation of 380 metres above sea level on the Künzelsberg near Burgwenden. The Wendenburg, a castle near Burgwenden (354 metres), the Buchberg close to Garnbach (350 metres) and the Seligenbornsberg near Lossa (355 metres) are the highest elevations of the Finne. The Finnberg, having become a nature reserve, is a continuation of the Wendenburg at 330 metres.

    The name “Finne” had been called “Vinne” (1142), or “Uinna” (1168) in very early years, but an exact definition of this name still isn’t clear. It might be that the name is a derivation of the German word ‘Sumpf’, or ‘marsh’, though it might equally have come from the names ‘Hohes Venn’ or ‘Fehn’ or even from one of the nearby hills, ‘Finnberg’.