Steinberg (Lipper Bergland)

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heaped crest of the Steinberg

The Steinberg is a 396  m high mountain in the Lipper Bergland in Schwelentrup, a district of the municipality of Dörentrup in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2016, the summit of the mountain was raised by 9 m by adding an artificial mound with a viewing platform (previously the summit height was 388 m). Since then the Steinberg has been the highest mountain in Nordlippe .

A missile and radar station was operated by NATO on the summit of Steinberg between 1963 and 1992 . After the end of use, the sealed surfaces of the missile position were largely broken open from 1998 under the leadership of NABU and most of the structures dismantled; in addition, small bodies of water were created. One building was preserved as a shelter for wintering bats . The approximately 10 hectare area is settlement space for several owl species , amphibians, the rare smooth snake and pioneer plants that repopulate the former missile station.

Since 2007, the area at the Steinberg summit has been part of the Alt-Sternberg and Steinberg nature reserve , which is significantly larger at 63  hectares and which also includes the Alt-Sternberg ruins and grassland and forest areas further south-east.

The summit of the Steinberg can be reached via several local circular hiking trails. The European long-distance hiking trail (E1) , the Hansaweg (X9), the Burgensteig (X2) and the Path of Views also run over the mountain .

Web links

Commons : Steinberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lippische-Landeszeitung: New platform on the Steinberg is North Lippe's highest point
  2. ^ Relict.com: The NATO air defense belt in Lower Saxony
  3. ^ NATO Order of Battle 1989 . ( MS Word ; 4.7 MB)
  4. ↑ NABU: Schwelentrup rocket station: Green idyll instead of cold war.
  5. ^ "Alt-Sternberg und Steinberg" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Kompass hiking map (maps.kompass.de)

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 '  N , 9 ° 2'  E