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Lübbecke (Kernstadt)
Lübbecke (; wep, Lübke) is a town in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany. This former county town lies on the northern slopes of the Wiehen Hills (''Wiehengebirge'') and has around 26,000 inhabitants. The town is part of district of Minden-Lübbecke within the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Detmold in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region. Lübbecke was first mentioned in the records in 775 as ''hlidbeki'' and was given town rights in 1279. Geography Lübbecke is situated just north of the Wiehen Hills, approx. north of Herford and west of Minden. Location Lübbecke is located in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia, north of East Westphalia-Lippe (''Ostwestfalen-Lippe''), in the southwestern part of the district of Minden-Lübbecke. From a landscape perspective, the town lies in the west of the Minden Land. Geographically, most of the built-up area is on the North German Plain. Only its southern suburbs lie on the northern slope of the Wiehen Hills, whose crest that mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most populous state of Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the List of German states by population density, most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of , it is the List of German states by area, fourth-largest German state by size. North Rhine-Westphalia features 30 of the 81 German municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants, including Cologne (over 1 million), the state capital Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen (all about 600,000 inhabitants) and other cities predominantly located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Weser
The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports of Bremerhaven and Nordenham. The latter is on the Butjadingen Peninsula. It then merges into the North Sea via two highly saline, estuarine mouths. It connects to the canal network running east-west across the North German Plain. The river, when combined with the Werra (a dialectal form of "Weser"), is long and thus, the longest river entirely situated within Germany (the Main, however, is the longest if the Weser and Werra are not combined). The Weser itself is long. The Werra rises in Thuringia, the German state south of the main projection (tongue) of Lower Saxony. Etymology "Weser" and "Werra" are the same words in different dialects. The difference reflects the old linguistic border between Central and Low German, passing through Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronceva
The Ronceva (also ''Roncevabach'') is a stream that flows through the East Westphalian town of Lübbecke. Course The source of the Ronceva lies at in the Wiehen between the hills of Heidbrink and Horsts Höhe at the lower end of the Mensinger Ravine. It flows initially to the east of the B 239 federal road on its way to the town of Lübbecke. The stream flows underground in the area of the town itself. North of the town the Ronceva resurfaces before emptying into the Flöthe flows within Lübbecke's industrial estate, immediately next to the factory buildings of Gauselmann (at {{Höhe, 49, DE-NN). The Ronceva has a length of around 5 km, of which about 1.5 km is piped underground. The catchment area of the Ronceva covers around 4 km2, i.e. just 7% of the total area of the borough of Lübbecke. In spite of its relatively short length the Ronceva flows through three markedly different landscapes: the Wiehen Hills, the Lübbecke Loessland and finally the Rahden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falk Oberdorf Grosse Aue
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Meesenkopf
The Meesenkopf, also called the ''Mesenkopf'', is a hill in the Wiehen range, south of the town of Lübbecke in Northern Germany. Whilst not particularly prominent, the hill is historically significant as the site of a medieval castle. Topography and access With a height of 225.8 m above sea level (NN), the Meesenkopf is topographically unspectacular for this part of the Wiehen Hills. There are much higher summits in its immediate vicinity, such as the Heidbrink, just under one kilometre away to the south, and the and better-known Reineberg, Lübbecke's local hill, which is 300 metres to the east, west of the Ronceva valley. Today the Meseberg has no particular importance for hikers, and on most maps it is not even shown. The hill can be climbed on forest tracks in around 30 minutes, although there is no established way to the summit itself, only a path that a few hikers over the years have beaten, which aids those making for the top. The Meesenburg A castle, the Meesen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidkopf (Wiehen Hills)
The Heidkopf is a high hill in the Wiehen in Minden-Lübbecke district within the borough of Lübbecke. It lies one kilometre north of the Heidbrink and 500 metres northeast of the Reineberg. The Heidkopf is not very spectacular and is not well known even amongst the townsfolk of Lübbecke. Its summit is partly covered by old beech trees. A footpath runs from the northeast up to the summit. A metalled forest track Forest tracks or forest roads are roads or tracks intended to carry motorised vehicles or horse-drawn wagons being used mainly or exclusively for forestry purposes, such as conservation or logging. Forest tracks may be open to ramblers or mountain ... runs around the hill. Between the Reineberg and the Heidkopf is a ravine that is still very much in a natural state, in which a stream rises, taking its source water from the Wittekind Spring. {, , , Gallery File:Falk Oberdorf Heidkopf Weg.JPG, Only this overgrown path runs from the north to the summit File:Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reineberg
The Reineberg is a hill on the Wiehen ridge, south of the town of Lübbecke. With a height of 275.9 m above sea level it is, from a topographical point of view, not a particularly impressive eminence in this part of the Wiehen Hills, because, in the immediate vicinity are considerably higher summits, such as the 320 m high Heidbrink just under 1 km to the south. East of the Reinberg on the other side of a valley bottom rises the Heidkopf, west of the Meesenkopf, on the summit of which there was once a fortification. 230 metres southwest of the summit lies the Wittekind Spring, that had a certain importance for the garrison of the castle at the summit, but today is just a small pond by a rock outcrop at the edge of a track. The Reineberg, which is the local hill for the town of Lübbecke, owes its significance to the fact that, until 1723, the year of its demolition, Reineberg Castle (german: Burg Reineberg or ''Reineburg'') stood here. History of Reineberg castle (Reinebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kniebrink
The Kniebrink, at , is the third highest mountain in the northern German Wiehen Hills. Its immediate summit belongs administratively to the village of Oberbauerschaft in the municipality of Hüllhorst. However, its boundary with the town of Lübbecke runs just north of the summit, so that its northern slopes belong to Lübbecke. The Kniebrink is just 3 metres lower than the more northerly Wurzelbrink, which obscures it from view in Lübbecke. The hill is largely trackless. In spring 2007 its trees suffered major storm damage. The top can be reaches from Lübbecke in under 45 minutes. From the south you need about 20 minutes for the short but steep climb. Gallery File:Aufstieg Wurzelbrink Falk Oberdorf.jpg, The Kniebrink lies immediately south of the Wurzelbrink File:Falk Oberdorf Kniebrink 4.png, On the treeless summit region, this hillock, the actual peak, is easy to make out File:Falk Oberdorf Kniebrink 5.JPG, On the summit area, deforested by the storm, there are now clump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wurzelbrink
The Wurzelbrink is a hill south of Lübbecke which, at {{Höhe, 318, DE-NN, is the second highest peak in the Wiehen Hills in north Germany. Immediately to the south is the no less majestic Kniebrink (315 m). There is an old and rather small watchtower, the '' Wartturm'', on top of the Wurzelbrink, which was built in 1857, whose outstanding views of the local area are partly obscured by the trees that have now grown up around it. Views Towards the east the "King of the Wiehen Hills", the Heidbrink (320 m), towers above the surrounding terrain. About 20 years ago, when the trees were much lower, the hills of the Stemweder Berg (also called the Stemme Hills or ''Stemmer Berge''), which are up to 181 m high, could be seen in good weather about 25 km away. Between the Wiehen Hills and the Stemweder Berg lies the broad expanse of the Lübbecke Land, that used to form the independent district of ''Kreis Lübbecke'' until the regional reforms of the 1970s. To the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidbrink
The Heidbrink is a hill which lies south of Lübbecke in central Germany and, at , is the highest peak in the Wiehen Hills. It is also the highest elevation in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its height is commonly given as 320 metres. About 200 yards east of the summit is a transmission tower for television and radio links and a wayside hut for walkers. The mast has a paved access road from the B 239. The summit of the Heidbrink itself is in a small open area and, until 2008, was marked by a boulder. Due to the surrounding high trees the view is blocked to the north; to the south can parts of the Ravensberg Basin be seen. The Ronceva rises on the western slope of the mountain. To the north are the peaks of the Reineberg, 276 m above sea level, and the Heidkopf, 273 m. The southern flank of the mountain drops steeply to the hamlet of Ahlsen-Reineberg in the municipality of Hüllhorst. The ridgeway (''Kammweg'') passes over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alswede
Alswede is a village in the East Westphalian borough of Lübbecke in Minden-Lübbecke district in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Politics * The parish chair of Alswede is Günther Vullriede. * The local historian is Helmut Woelk. ''(as at July 2008)'' Gallery File:CHRISTLICHER SYMBOL - DER KREUZ.jpg, Giant cross at the cemetery File:Kirche Alswede.jpg, St. Andrew's Church (side view) File:KIRCHE_TURM.jpg, St. Andrew's Church (front) File:KAPELLE.jpg, St. Andrew's Haseloh chapel File:TOTE AUS ALSWEDE WK.jpg, Memorial tablet for soldiers from Alswede File:GOLDENE KREUZE.jpg, Gold cross in the mosaic in the chapel File:WK SCHILD.jpg, Memorial stones for soldiers who fell in the world wars File:AUTOHAUS HÜLSMEYER GEBÄUDE.jpg, Garage File:SPARKASSE ALSWEDE.jpg, Sparkasse bank File:VOLKSBANK RAIFFEISENBANK.jpg, Genossenschaft Bank File:SPIELPLATZ.jpg, Playpark File:ALSWEDE.jpg, Alswede References and footnotes External links Website of the town of Lüb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geest (topography)
Geest is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outwash plain and now usually mantled by a heathland vegetation on the glacial deposits left behind after the last ice age during the Pleistocene epoch.Whittow, John (1984). ''Dictionary of Physical Geography''. London: Penguin, p. 214. . The term ''geest'' is a substantivisation of the Low German adjective ''güst'', which means "dry and infertile". It is an Old Drift landscape, characterised by the sandy depositions of the Ice Age. In the depressions between the raised flats are wet meadows and, where drainage is poor, bogs. Geest lands are made up of moraines and sandurs. They are almost always next to flat marshlands, the geest being higher and better protected against flood but, compared to the marsh, with poor soil for agriculture. Where the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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