Nonnenstein
| Nonnenstein | ||
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 View of Nonnenstein and Rödinghausen from the southwest |
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| height | 273.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Rödinghausen / Preußisch Oldendorf , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Wiehengebirge | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 15 '43 " N , 8 ° 28' 46" E | |
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| rock | Sandstone | |
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Nonnenstein observation tower , Bismarck fire column |
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The Nonnenstein is a 273.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Wiehengebirge north of Rödinghausen . It lies exactly on the border between the North Rhine-Westphalian districts of Minden-Lübbecke and Herford . The Nonnenstein is also referred to as Rödinghauser Berg in older literature .
Mountain height
There is a curiosity with regard to the height of the mountain: due to a measurement or transmission error, it was assumed until the 1960s that the Nonnenstein was 325 meters high and thus the highest mountain in the Wiehengebirge. Occasionally, in older lexical works at the beginning of the 20th century, that is, long ago at a time when surveying could provide precise values and the height of other mountains, such as B. those of the Zugspitze, were already determined to the meter, even a height of 336 meters sealed. In fact, however, the Nonnenstein is only 273 meters high, i.e. 52 or 63 meters lower than sometimes assumed and also apparently lower than the 319.6 m high Heidbrink . After all, it is the highest mountain in the Wiehengebirge in the Herford district.
legend
According to a legend, the Nonnenstein owes its name to a beautiful damsel named Hildburga: She was the daughter of the knight whose castle stood on the mountain. To the displeasure of her father, the young lady was in love with the poor knight from Limberg , and so the father organized a tournament: the knight who won was allowed to ask for her hand. And so it happened that at the end of the tournament the father and the knight from Limberg faced each other. Their horses and lances clashed so hard that they impaled each other and died.
Hildburga promised to become a nun after this drama and turned her father's castle into a monastery. After her death, the nuns ruled there so cold-heartedly and mercilessly that the local, impoverished farmers stormed the castle and destroyed all but a single tower and the foundation stone. Hence the name "Nonnenstein". In the vernacular, the name of the mountain was transferred to the observation tower at some point:
Observation tower
"Nonnenstein" is also called a 14 meter high observation tower on the mountain (officially: observation tower on the Nonnenstein). The structure was erected in 1897 as a nine-meter-high "Kaiser Wilhelm Tower", which replaced a previously existing wooden tower. In 1968 the tower was raised to its current height of 14 meters due to the taller trees. In 2014 it was extensively renovated. A newly built steel staircase leads over 70 steps to the viewing platform , from which you can look to the Hermannsdenkmal in Lippe when the weather is good and the view is clear .
The stylized observation tower on the Nonnenstein is included in the coat of arms of the Rödinghausen community.
additional
100 meters from the tower, the “Bismarck fire column” was built in 1911 at the suggestion of the Bünde gymnastics club and citizens of Rödinghausen who are enthusiastic about bismarck, a six-meter-high sandstone column with a square floor plan and a Bismarck medallion on the front.
The mountain and its tower are on the route of the Wittekindsweg , a section of the European long-distance hiking trail E11 .
In Saxon Switzerland there is the "Burgwarte Nonnenstein" at Rauenstein near Rathen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Brockhaus from 1911 [1]
- ↑ Meyer's Lexicon from 1905 [2]
- ↑ Rödinghausen's landmark in the Westfalen-Blatt dated September 26, 2018, accessed on November 13, 2019
- ↑ Rathen: Burgwarte Nonnenstein on the website "Saxony's Castles"
