The Velmerstot is the northernmost and highest hill in the
Eggegebirge
The Egge Hills (german: Eggegebirge, ), or just the Egge (''die Egge'') is a range of forested hills, up to , in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Geography
The Egge extends from the southern tip of the Teutoburg Forest r ...
ridge in the German state of
North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two summits, the Prussian Velmerstot (''Preußische Velmerstot'') (468 m), which lies on the territory of
Steinheim-Sandebeck in the county of
Höxter
Höxter () is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the left bank of the river Weser, 52 km north of Kassel in the centre of the Weser Uplands. The main town's population is around 15,000, and with outlying centres, about 30,0 ...
, and the Lippe Velmerstot (''Lippische Velmerstot'') (, 441 m), which is located in the county of
Lippe
Lippe () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
...
. The whole hill is part of the
Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park
The Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park (german: Naturpark Teutoburger Wald / Eggegebirge) is a nature park founded in 1965 in the northeast of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. After being expanded in 2008, the nature park is no ...
.
During the Cold War, the hill had a NATO and Dutch air defence installations; they left by 1994 and the installations were torn down in 2002/03.
References
Literature
* Hans-Martin Wienke: ''Silbermühle, Velmerstot und die Höhlen des Teutoburger Waldes''. Schnelle, Detmold, o.J. (1982?)
External links
Nature reserve of Lippischer Velmerstot and Egge-Osthang, Natura2000 entry
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Nature reserves in North Rhine-Westphalia
Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia
Lippe
Natura 2000 in Germany