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Dören
''Dören'' (or ''Döhren'', singular: ''Döre'') is the name given to mountain pass, passes through a hill range, range of hills in the Low German language area, especially Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The origin of the term goes back to the Low German word ''Dör'' ("door"). ''Dören'' thus separate two hill ridges, which in East Westphalia (''Ostwestfalen'') are often known as ''Eggen''. A typical ''Döre'' is the Wallücke. The Dören Gorge between Pivitsheide V. L. and Augustdorf in the Teutoburg Forest also bears this name. Smaller, wet or stream-filled V-shaped valleys, through which no pass leads, are known as ''Siepen'' or ''Siefen'' in Low German as well as in the Middle High German dialect area, for example, in the Süder Uplands. The related term of ''Siek (landform), Siek'' from the East Westphalian-Lippe area means a wet 'box valley' (''Kastental'', a valley with wide bottom flanked by steep rock faces), that has arisen through ''Plaggen'' extraction (a form of peat cutting) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dörenberg (Lippe Uplands)
The Dörenberg is a hill, , in the Teutoburg Forest in the district of Osnabrück, in the German state of Lower Saxony. Origin of the name Dören could be derived, especially in the area of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, from ''Dör'', the Low German word for a hill or mountain pass. Location The Dörenberg, the highest elevation in the centre section of the Teutoburg Forest, lies between Bad Iburg and the Georgsmarienhütte village of Oesede, whereby the boundary of both parishes runs over its southern flank, close to the summit. East of the hill, the B 51 runs between both settlements in roughly a north-northeast to south-southwest direction. The summit can be reached on woodland tracks from this road. Hermann's Tower On the summit of the Dörenberg stands the Hermann's Tower, from which, at a height of , there are views southeast over the Teutoburg Forest, southwards of the Münsterland and north to the Wiehen Hills. On the Lammersbrink, 2.8 kilometres northwes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dörenberg
The Dörenberg is a hill, , in the Teutoburg Forest in the district of Osnabrück, in the German state of Lower Saxony. Origin of the name Dören could be derived, especially in the area of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, from ''Dör'', the Low German word for a hill or mountain pass. Location The Dörenberg, the highest elevation in the centre section of the Teutoburg Forest, lies between Bad Iburg and the Georgsmarienhütte village of Oesede, whereby the boundary of both parishes runs over its southern flank, close to the summit. East of the hill, the B 51 runs between both settlements in roughly a north-northeast to south-southwest direction. The summit can be reached on woodland tracks from this road. Hermann's Tower On the summit of the Dörenberg stands the Hermann's Tower, from which, at a height of , there are views southeast over the Teutoburg Forest, southwards of the Münsterland and north to the Wiehen Hills. On the Lammersbrink, 2.8 kilometres northwest, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dören Gorge
''Dören'' (or ''Döhren'', singular: ''Döre'') is the name given to passes through a range of hills in the Low German language area, especially Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The origin of the term goes back to the Low German word ''Dör'' ("door"). ''Dören'' thus separate two hill ridges, which in East Westphalia (''Ostwestfalen'') are often known as ''Eggen''. A typical ''Döre'' is the Wallücke. The Dören Gorge between Pivitsheide V. L. and Augustdorf in the Teutoburg Forest also bears this name. Smaller, wet or stream-filled V-shaped valleys, through which no pass leads, are known as '' Siepen'' or ''Siefen'' in Low German as well as in the Middle High German dialect area, for example, in the Süder Uplands. The related term of '' Siek'' from the East Westphalian-Lippe area means a wet 'box valley' (''Kastental'', a valley with wide bottom flanked by steep rock faces), that has arisen through ''Plaggen'' extraction (a form of peat cutting) and ash cultivation. Places with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dörentrup
Dörentrup is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has an area of 49.79 km² and c. 8,000 inhabitants (2013). The name is derived from the Low German word for hill passes, '' Dören''. Night lighting scheme A remarkable feature in this village is its night lighting scheme. Every night at 11 pm, all street lights turn off. Inhabitants can then request that lights be turned back on as needed by sending a code to a special phone number called Dial4light. Each street has its own code that can be found either online on a specific website or on each light post. This is intended to reduce energy use, save money, respect the nocturnal fauna and avoid light pollution Light pollution is the presence of unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive use of artificial Visible spectrum, lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term ''light pollution'' refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting, during the day .... References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustdorf
Augustdorf is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has an area of 42.18 km² and about 10,100 inhabitants (2020). History In 1775 Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold Simon August, Count of Lippe (12 June 1727 – 1 May 1782), ruled the Principality of Lippe-Detmold from 1734 until 1782. He was born in Detmold, the son of Simon Henry Adolph and Johanna Wilhelmine of Nassau-Idstein. Simon August ruled until ... issued a writ of lease (Meierbrief) for the area of today's Augustdorf in favour of August Simon Struß, permitting him to establish a settlement (colony) at Dören hill. In 1779 the actual development plan for the settlement was decided, but the place hardly developed. In 1780 the settlement at Dören consisted of only four tiny thatched huts. In 1789 the settlement was named in honour of Count Simon August. References External links Official website Lippe Principality of Lippe {{Lippe-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teutoburg Forest
The Teutoburg Forest ( ; german: Teutoburger Wald ) is a range of low, forested hills in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Until the 17th century, the official name of the hill ridge was Osning. It was first renamed the ''Teutoburg Forest'' in 1616 in commemoration of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, which most likely took place at Kalkriese instead. Geography The Teutoburg Forest is a peripheral section in the north of the German Central Uplands, and forms a long narrow range of hills (comprising three ridges) extending from the eastern surroundings of Paderborn in the south to the western surroundings of Osnabrück in the northwest. South of the city centre of Bielefeld, a gap called the Bielefeld Pass bisects the range into the ''Northern Teutoburg Forest'' (two thirds) and ''Southern Teutoburg Forest'' (one third). In addition, the northeastern and southwestern ridges are cut by the exits of the longitudinal valleys between the ridges. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle High German
Middle High German (MHG; german: Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High German and into Early New High German. High German is defined as those varieties of German which were affected by the Second Sound Shift; the Middle Low German and Middle Dutch languages spoken to the North and North West, which did not participate in this sound change, are not part of MHG. While there is no ''standard'' MHG, the prestige of the Hohenstaufen court gave rise in the late 12th century to a supra-regional literary language (') based on Swabian, an Alemannic dialect. This historical interpretation is complicated by the tendency of modern editions of MHG texts to use ''normalised'' spellings based on this variety (usually called "Classical MHG"), which make the written language appear more consistent than it actually is in the manuscripts. Scholars are uncertain as to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash (tree)
''Fraxinus'' (), commonly called ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous, though a number of subtropical species are evergreen. The genus is widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately compound, though simple in a few species. The seeds, popularly known as "keys" or "helicopter seeds", are a type of fruit known as a samara. Some ''Fraxinus'' species are dioecious, having male and female flowers on separate plants but sex in ash is expressed as a continuum between male and female individuals, dominated by unisexual trees. With age, ash may change their sexual function from predominantly male and hermaphrodite towards femaleness ; if grown as an ornamental and both sexes are present, ashes can cause a considerable litter problem with their seeds. Rowans or mountain ashes have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaggen
Plaggen soil or plaggic anthrosol is a type of soil created in parts of northwest Europe in the Middle Ages, as a result of so-called "plaggen" agriculture on marginal podzol soils. In order to fertilize the fields, pieces of heath or grass including roots and humus ("plaggen") were cut and used as bedding for cattle or sheep. In springtime, this bedding, enriched with slurry was then spread over the fields near the village as manure. The long term practice of this form of agriculture created a rich agricultural soil to a depth of between 40 cm and over 1.50 m, unlike modern arable soils, which tend to be just 30 centimetres deep. The raised fields give rise to a typical landscape with sharp breaks in elevation and are called Plaggenesche in Germany or ''Es'' in Dutch. This form of agriculture stopped around 1900 with the introduction of fertilizer A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siek (landform)
''Siek'' is a north German term for a wet depression, hollow or lowland area. It is mainly used to describe typical cultural landscape elements in eastern Westphalia, especially in the county of Lippe and in the region of Ravensberg Land. In East Westphalia "siek" is a very common component of the names of tracts of land, roads, places and even personal names, e.g. ''Heidsiek'', ''Siekhorst'', ''Im Siek'', ''Siekmann'' and '' Sieker''. Origins The fertile loess soils in this region of north Germany are dissected by a host of brooks and headstreams, which used to flow in marshy V-shaped valleys. Not all ''Sieke'' are or were, however, crossed by a stream, but at the very least they always consisted of wet ground. During the course of medieval and early modern cultural and agricultural history, people developed these natural landforms by cutting into the edges of the V-shaped valleys (so-called ''Wiesenbrechen'' by ''Wiskenmaker''Adolf Schüttler: ''Das Ravensberger Land''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süder Uplands
The Süder Uplands (1997) by Verlag Siedlungsforschung, p. 47, Retrieved 15 May 2014. (german: Süderbergland, sometimes ''Südergebirge'' i.e. Süder Hills), form a major natural region (no. 33 or D38) of the in the German states of and northwestern |
Mountain Pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human and animal migration throughout history. At lower elevations it may be called a hill pass. A mountain pass is typically formed between two volcanic peaks or created by erosion from water or wind. Overview Mountain passes make use of a gap (landform), gap, saddle (landform), saddle, col or notch (landform), notch. A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the highest point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge. On a topographic map, passes are characterized by contour lines with an hourglass shape, which indicates a low spot between two higher points. In the high mountains, a difference of between the summit and the mountain is defined as a mountain pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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