''Dören'' (or ''Döhren'', singular: ''Döre'') is the name given to passes through a range of hills in the
Low German language
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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
''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"). ''D ...
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 th ...
also bears this name.
Smaller, wet or stream-filled V-shaped valleys, through which no pass leads, are known as ''
Siepen
''Siepen'', ''Siefen'', ''Seifen'' or ''Seipen'' are typical regional words used in northwestern Germany for what are often narrow, wet, ravine-like V-shaped valleys of the German Central Uplands with their small headstreams. In the south Germ ...
'' or ''Siefen'' in Low German as well as in the
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 ...
dialect area, for example, in the
Süder Uplands
The Süder UplandsSiek'' 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
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cultivation.
Places with the name
* Dörentrup, village in the county of Lippe
* Dörenberg (331.2 m), hill in the county of Osnabrück
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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 ...