Stemweder Berg

Stemweder Berg ; (Stemweder Berge) ; (Stemmer Berge)
	View from the northern slope of the Wiehengebirge near Lübbecke north-northwest towards the Stemweder Berg
Highest peak	Kollwesshöh ( 181.4 m above sea level )
location	District of Diepholz and District of Minden-Lübbecke ; Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany )
Coordinates	52 ° 26 '8 " N , 8 ° 26' 0" E Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '8 " N , 8 ° 26' 0" E

Stemweder Berg near Haldem : Scharfer Berg (left) and Kollwesshöh (right)

The Stemweder Berg (also called Stemweder Berge or Stemmer Berge ) is one to 181.4 m above sea level. NHN high mountain range in the border area between North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony .

The ridge is assigned to the natural area Dümmer-Geestniederung in the south of the western part of the North German Plain . Like the neighboring municipality of Stemwede , it got its name from the medieval Free County of Stemwede.

geography

location

The Stemweder Berg is isolated like an island in the southern end of the western part of the North German Plain , about 15 km north of the northern edge of the low mountain range threshold . Around 32 km northeast of Osnabrück and 10 km southeast of Lake Dümmer (and therefore located within the Dümmer Nature Park ), it rises in the Bohmte - Diepholz - Rahden triangle near the municipality of Stemwede about 130 m above its surroundings. Its west-east extension is - based on the 60 m height line , including the Dielinger Kleis - with around 9.5 km, well over twice its north-south extent (approx. 4.5 km). The border between the district of Diepholz in the north and the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the south as well as between the federal states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia runs over its northern slope .

The villages around Stemweder Berg are: Brockum (north), Stemwede (east, south to west; from east to west with the municipalities of Oppenwehe , Oppendorf , Wehdem , Westrup , Arrenkamp , Haldem and Dielingen ), Stemshorn (west), Lemförde (northwest) and Quernheim (northwest).

The closed forest area of the ridge covers 10.3 km², of which 7.4 km² are in East Westphalia and 2.9 km² in the part of Lower Saxony bordering to the north.

To the west of the Stemweder Berg lies the Große Moor bei Damme , to the northwest of the Dümmer, behind it the Dammer Mountains , north-northeast to the north-northeast of the Kellenberg , to the east of the Rahden-Diepenauer Geest , to the south the Lübbecker Land and behind that the Wiehengebirge .

Natural allocation

The Stemweder Berg forms in the natural environment feature unit group Dümme Geest Lowland (no. 58) in the main unit Rahden-Diepenauer Geest (582) and in the sub unit Stemmer heights (582.0) the natural environment Stemmer mountains (582.00).

Surveys

The actual Stemweder Berg has an almost desk-like morphology with the highest elevations in the southern half of the ridge.

As a result, the steepest slopes are also predominantly in the southern half of the ridge.

The surveys of the Stemweder Berg include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN; if not otherwise stated according to; Lower Saxony = NIE, North Rhine-Westphalia = NRW):

Kollwesshöh (181.4 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, north of Arrenkamp
Scharfer Berg (180.1 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northwest of Westrup
Schlichter Brink (approx. 170 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northeast foothills of the Scharfen Berg
Rauher Berg (167.8 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northern foothills of the Scharfen Berg
Wegmannsberg (160.5 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northwest of Scharfen Berg
Kahler Hügel (146.4 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northeast spur of Kollwesshöh and Scharfem Berg
Junge Berg (approx. 145 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northern foothills of the Rauhen Berg
Dorenberg (140.3 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northeast of the Schlichten Brink
Feldbrink (128.1 m), NEVER, north of the Schlichten Brink
Ostenberg (127.4 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, northeast of Dorenberg
Lemförde Berg (126.1 m), NEVER, south of Lemförde
Brockumer Klei (116.5 m), NEVER, south of Brockum
Wehdemer Klei (98.1 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, north of Wehdem
Dielinger Klei (91.8 m), North Rhine-Westphalia, south of Dielingen

Flowing waters

The rivers near the Stemweder Berg include:

Great Dieck River , passes the ridge in the south, western tributary of the Great Aue
Hunte , passes the ridge a little further to the west, southwest tributary of the Weser

Landscape and geology

Large parts of the mountain are covered with forest. Settled farmland surrounds the mountain

In contrast to the nearby Dammer Mountains and the a little further away Ankumer Höhe , which are made up of glacial debris and represent a moraine , the core of the wooded Stemweder Berg consists of around 85 million years old former seabed, which is under pressure in millions of years solidified into calcareous sedimentary rock and was pushed up out of the underground as a result of tectonic movements. The Cretaceous rock contains fossils of prehistoric marine animals that have been extinct for millions of years. The lower slopes, on the other hand, consist of glacial loess , from which fertile soils emerged. The latter is in contrast to the lowlands around the Dümmer, because there are numerous sandy and boggy soils in northern Germany.

gallery

Forests, fields and orchards near Wilhelmshöhe
Park at the "Berggasthof Wilhelmshöhe"
Picnic area near the "Berggasthof Wilhelmshöhe"

History, dialects and peasant communities

The Stemweder Berg used to be part of the state border between the kingdoms of Hanover and Prussia . Some boundary stones from that time that still exist in the forest show a chiseled "P" on the Prussian side and an "H" on the Hanover side. The mountain ridge forms an isogloss (dialect divide). There are also clear differences between the small farmhouses facing the sea with their poor pastures and the much wider farmsteads , as found from Dielingen , where the soils become more productive.

Hiking trail "Weißer Weg" on the ridge of the Stemweder Berg

View from the north slope of the Stemweder mountain northwest to the Dümmer

Sights and hiking

In addition to the forest landscape, where you can find out more about the trees on a nature trail , there is also a large barrow from the early Bronze Age on Stemweder Berg . There is also an interesting orchid cultivation on the northern slope in Lemförde . The Ems-Hase-Hunte-Else-Weg runs over the ridge and the Weißer Weg hiking trail over its ridge . The exposed location allows wide views, including from the northern slope to the Dümmer .

Buildings

Furthermore, there were several guest houses in Stemweder Berg, of which only the "Berggasthof Wilhelmshöhe" (approx. 166 m ; to Haldem ) is still in operation. The “Prussian Berghaus” (approx. 108 m ; also to Haldem) and the “Hannoversche Berghaus” (approx. 90 m ; to Lemförde ) are now in private hands. For example, at the “Haldemer Kreuz” forest path crossing ( 158.2 m ) to the north-northwest of the Scharfen Berg there is a refuge (all heights in meters (m) above sea level).

literature

Hans-Wilhelm Windhorst : The Stemweder Berg - A forest geographic investigation . In: Spieker - regional studies articles and reports . Vol. 19, Münster 1971.

References and comments

↑ In the maps of the Prussian regional survey , the designation "Stemmer Berge" can be found in the abbreviated form "Stemmer Bge." [Available in Global Net FX environmental maps - WebGIS viewer of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection - Division 14 Environmental Information, DV Organization, eGovernment - implemented by GISCON; set “Prussian land record” as the base map], also in the topographical overview map of the German Empire 1: 200,000 with additions from 1955 [available at giersbeck.de (PDF file; 4.49 MiB)]. In the current DTK 25, DTK 100 and DTK 200 the designation "Stemweder Berge" can be found, in the current DTK 50 and DTK 500, however, the designation "Stemweder Berg" [can be viewed in the Global Net FX Umweltkarten -WebGIS-Viewer; Set the corresponding map in the "Layer Manager" under "Available data" → "Basic data" → "Maps SW". The scale in the map viewer must be set to half the reduction value of the DTK, but for the DTK 100 to 1: 26,000 ].
↑ ^a ^b ^c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
^ Sofie Meisel: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 85 Minden. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. → Online map (PDF; 4.5 MB)
↑ ^a ^b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
↑ The Dielinger Klei can be counted in a broader sense as the dominant height of the Stemweder room; However, it is part of the directly neighboring natural area of Wehdemer Vorland (582.02).

[Name-1] In the maps of the Prussian regional survey , the designation "Stemmer Berge" can be found in the abbreviated form "Stemmer Bge." [Available in Global Net FX environmental maps - WebGIS viewer of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection - Division 14 Environmental Information, DV Organization, eGovernment - implemented by GISCON; set “Prussian land record” as the base map], also in the topographical overview map of the German Empire 1: 200,000 with additions from 1955 [available at giersbeck.de (PDF file; 4.49 MiB)]. In the current DTK 25, DTK 100 and DTK 200 the designation "Stemweder Berge" can be found, in the current DTK 50 and DTK 500, however, the designation "Stemweder Berg" [can be viewed in the Global Net FX Umweltkarten -WebGIS-Viewer; Set the corresponding map in the "Layer Manager" under "Available data" → "Basic data" → "Maps SW". The scale in the map viewer must be set to half the reduction value of the DTK, but for the DTK 100 to 1: 26,000 ].

[TIM-2] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )

[BfL-085-3] Sofie Meisel: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 85 Minden. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1959. → Online map (PDF; 4.5 MB)

[DE_BFN-Karten-4] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[DKlei-5] The Dielinger Klei can be counted in a broader sense as the dominant height of the Stemweder room; However, it is part of the directly neighboring natural area of Wehdemer Vorland (582.02).