Heidbrink

Heidbrink
	Heidbrink and neighboring mountains seen from the north
height	319.6 m above sea level NHN
location	near Lübbecke , Minden-Lübbecke district , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Mountains	Wiehengebirge
Dominance	26 km → Bonstapel in the Lipper Bergland
Notch height	240 m ↓ Hase-Else bifurcation near Gesmold
Coordinates	52 ° 17 '30 " N , 8 ° 38' 21" E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '30 " N , 8 ° 38' 21" E
Normal way	trail
particularities	- highest mountain in the Wiehengebirge; - transmission tower on the summit region
	The Heidbrink is located southeast of Lübbecke

The Heidbrink near Lübbecke is 319.6 m above sea level. NHN , according to other sources even with 320.0 m, the highest mountain in the Wiehengebirge and the Minden-Lübbecke district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is also the northernmost peak over 300 meters in Germany .

geography

location

The Heidbrink rises in the nature and geopark TERRA.vita . Its summit is about 2 km southeast of the core town of Lübbecke on the border between the city of Lübbecke and the large municipality of Hüllhorst to the south of it . The southern flank of the mountain drops steeply to the Hüllhorst district of Ahlsen-Reineberg . The Ronceva rises on the saddle to the south-western neighbor Wurzelbrink ( 318 m ) . To the north are the peaks of the Reineberg ( 275.9 m ) and the Heidkopf ( 272.6 m ).

Parts of the Wiehengebirge-Wesergebirge landscape protection area extend on the Heidbrink ( CDDA no. 555552654; designated 1971; 49.1049 km² in size).

Natural allocation

The Heidbrink belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Lower Weserbergland (No. 53) and in the main unit Eastern Wiehengebirge (532) to the subunit Lübbecker Egge (532.2). To the south, its landscape falls into the main unit Ravensberger Mulde (531) and in the subunit Quernheimer Hügel- und Bergland (north) (531.0) into the natural area of Quernheimer Hügelland (531.01).

Summit stone

To mark the Heidbrink summit, a five-ton sandstone with heavy iron deposits was erected there on May 24, 2008 , which is typical for the local Wiehen Mountains. There are two panels on the new stone; the upper one shows the Heidbrink as the highest mountain in the Wiehengebirge, the lower one names the sponsors. The new stone is not in the same place where a less spectacular stone previously stood, but about 20 m east of it; the original stone was cleared away in the course of the reorganization.

Transmission tower

About 170 m northeast of the Heidbrink summit, on the border between Lübbecke and Hüllhorst, there is a telecommunications tower for radio and radio links. Since 2002 the Deutschlandradio Kultur has been broadcasting south with 200 watts. No VHF programs were previously broadcast from here. The tower itself seems to be identical to the Bad Rehburg tower. It has a paved driveway from the B 239 .

Opportunities for viewing and hiking

There is a small open space in the summit region of the Heidbrink. The view to the north is blocked due to the surrounding tall trees; you can only partially see the Ravensberger Mulde to the south .

The Wittekindsweg (locally called the Kammweg ) runs across the summit region, a hiking trail on the Wiehengebirge from Osnabrück to Porta Westfalica and the Heidbrink in the east with the Straussberg ( 275.5 m ) and in the west with Horsthöhe (approx. 275 m ) and the Kniebrink (approx. 315 m ) connects. The ridge trail runs there together with the European long-distance hiking trail E11 ( North Sea – Harz – Mark Brandenburg – Masuria ).

With a height of 320 m , the Heidbrink is not only the highest mountain in the Wiehengebirge, but also the northernmost three hundred as the summit of the central European mainland (excluding the European islands and peninsulas such as Fennoscandinavia ), between the Atlantic and the Urals . All mountains that are located in Germany at a more northerly degree of latitude are lower than the Heidbrink. It is true that there are places over 300 meters high in low mountain ranges that are a little further north; the peaks belonging to it, however, are to the south.

Heidbrinkhütte

The Heidbrinkhütte stands around 500 meters east of the summit and 42 meters north of the trigonometric point 302.0 at a height of just over 300 m . The small refuge is located on the Wittekindsweg ( Kammweg ) and thus on the European long-distance hiking trail E11. A predecessor to the hut was built in 1924.

Such signs have been pointing to the summit stone of the Heidbrink since spring 2008
This summit stone has been on the summit since May 2008
The place of the former summit stone was a little further to the west, as shown here, and marked the real summit
Transmission tower northeast of the Heidbrink summit