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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] |
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] |