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	Bonstapel south side (Röntgenorf)
height	342 m above sea level NN
location	Vlotho , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Mountains	Lipper mountain country
Coordinates	52 ° 6 '32 " N , 8 ° 52' 46" E Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '32 " N , 8 ° 52' 46" E

The Bonstapel is 342 m above sea level. NN the highest mountain in the East Westphalian town of Vlotho and also in the Herford district . The mountain is located in the south of the municipality of Vlotho and naturally belongs to the Weser and Lipper Bergland . On June 30, 2020, in a ceremony with the district administrator and mayor, a six-ton boulder found in the Vlotho area with the inscription "Bonstapel 342 meters highest elevation in the Herford district" was placed on the summit. The local FDP was in charge.

Nature reserve

The “Linnenbeeke / Steingrund” nature reserve is located below the Bonstapels . The area includes an extensive forest area with more than 1000 boulders from different ice ages . The Linnenbeeke flows through the forest of beech and oak , which rises from seven springs on the Bonstapel.

Nature trail

As part of the "Learning Place-Nature Working Group", the " Bonstapel Nature Trail " was created in Vlotho about 20 years ago , which, in line with current museum pedagogy, successfully brought people closer to nature and brought them closer to people.

Stations

Table 1: Information board with the course of the nature trail at the hiking car park at the "Zur Wilden Sau" inn in Steinbründorf.
Table 2: The Niehage turbine house was used from 1925 to 1954 to generate electrical energy for lighting and to drive the machines in the nearby courtyard; The building, which was designated a technical cultural monument in 1993, now serves as a nesting place for owls and bats as winter quarters.
Table 3: The Linnenbeeke as still water - Here the Linnenbeeke was dammed into a mill pond used today for fish farming.
Table 4: The Linnenbeeke as flowing water has a relatively strong current, a low water temperature and a high oxygen content ; Their gravelly subsoil offers bullhead and brown trout good conditions for laying their spawn .
Plate 5, The legend of the Bonstapel : In the Ravensberger Land , people say that the devil wanted to close Porta Westfalica , the breakthrough of the Weser between Wiehengebirge and Jakobsberg , after which the city of the same name was named. In the resulting lake he wanted to drown the God-pleasing Ravensbergers. He fetched a mountain from the Kassel area, but did not make it to the destination, because a priest held the cross out to him, he fell and the mountain (now known as Bonstapel) buried him under itself. He is still trying to fight his way free and the old people tell that you can hear him groan and groan. He tries so hard that his sweat comes out in the seven springs of the Linnenbeeke. The boulders in the Linnenbeeketal are the tears turned to stone that he shed when he realized that he could not finish his work (some say that it was his sweat that dripped down during the flight).
Panel 6; The seven springs originated where the groundwater penetrates the earth's surface; it has a constant temperature of 6 to 8 ° C all year round.
Plate 7: The coppice forest with its red beech is a special form of forest that was created in the 17th century .
Table 8: The pre-forest zone forms a very important biotope as a transition zone between open fields and closed forests.
Plate 9: An artificially created insect wall is used for the care and maintenance of insects and arachnids .
Plate 10: The flower meadow
Plate 11: "Children paint nature"
Table 12: The hedge offers protection against erosion and a habitat for many plant and animal species.
Plate 13: The juniper heather on the Kleiner Selberg is a cultural biotope that was created by human hands; A memorial stone reminded here of the home and naturalist Helmut Richter (1904-1994), the 1961 planting a fir - monoculture prevented and thus for obtaining the last Wacholderheide in Herford made.
Plate 14: "Children paint nature"

Station 3:
mill pond
Station 6:
Seven sources
Station 7:
Niederwald
Station 8:
pre-forest zone
Station 9:
insect wall
Station 13:
Juniper Heath
Station 14:
"Children paint nature"