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Obermehnen
Obermehnen is a village in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the county of Minden-Lübbecke. The village belongs administratively to the town of Lübbecke. Obermehnen has 1,360 inhabitants and an area of 9.6 km². At around 137 people per km² Obermehnen has the lowest density of all of Lübbeck's districts, not least because 4.3 km², i.e. 45%, of the parish area consists of uninhabited hill forest on the Wiehen Hills. Obermehnen is thus the most wooded part of the borough of Lübbecke. File:Falk Oberdorf Obermehnen Ortsrand.JPG, View of parts of the village. Background: the village of Limberg (Wiehengebirge), Limberg that belongs to Preußisch Oldendorf File:Falk Oberdorf Preußenpfahl.JPG, The ''Preußenpfahl'' ("Prussian Post") in Obermehnen File:Falk Oberdorf Obermehnen Maibaum.JPG, Not far from the ''Preußenpfahl'' stands Obermehnen's maypole Personalities * Eberhard Werner (artist), Eberhard Werner, artist (landscape painter) lived and died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lübbecke
Lübbecke (; ) is a town in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany. This former county town lies on the northern slopes of the Wiehen Hills (''Wiehengebirge'') and has around 26,000 inhabitants. The town is part of district of Minden-Lübbecke within the Regierungsbezirk Detmold, ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Detmold in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region. Lübbecke was first mentioned in the records in 775 as ''hlidbeki'' and was given town rights in 1279. Geography Lübbecke is situated just north of the Wiehen Hills, approx. north of Herford and west of Minden. Location Lübbecke is located in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia, north of East Westphalia-Lippe (''Ostwestfalen-Lippe''), in the southwestern part of the district of Minden-Lübbecke. From a landscape perspective, the town lies in the west of the Minden Land. Geographically, most of the built-up area is on the North German Plain. Only its southern suburbs lie on the northern slope of the Wiehen Hills, whose crest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babilonie
The Babilonie is a hillfort of the La Tène culture at a height of 255.6 metres above sea level on the northern edge of a rounded hill in the Wiehen Hills above the Lübbecke village of Obermehnen in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The name is derived from the Germanic ''baben'' in the ''lon'' i.e. "up in the woods". The wedge-shaped, double-rampart system, which descends from south to north with the slope, was investigated archaeologically in the first half of the last century, especially by Friedrich Langewiesche, who assessed it as a refuge castle. Ceramic and even metalwork finds indicate that it belongs to the La Tène culture in the pre-Roman Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ..., e vorrömische E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiehengebirge
The Wiehen HillsElkins, T.H. (1972). ''Germany'' (3rd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. . (, , also locally, just ''Wiehen'') are a hill range in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. The hills run from west to east like a long finger away from the main upland area of the Lower Saxon Hills, beginning at the Weser River near Minden and terminating in the vicinity of Osnabrück. It is the northernmost of the German Central Upland ranges extending into the Northern Lowlands. Their highest hill is the Heidbrink near Lübbecke with an altitude of . Location The Wiehen Hills lie within the districts of Landkreis Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Minden-Lübbecke and Kreis Herford, Herford. Their northern section runs in an east–west direction roughly from the territory of Bramsche (northwest of Osnabrück) via Ostercappeln, Bad Essen, Preußisch Oldendorf and Rödinghausen, Lübbecke, Hüllhorst and Bad Oeynhausen as far as the towns of Minden and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falk Oberdorf Obermehnen Nutzung
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Falk may refer to: * Falk (name), including origin and list of people with this name * Falk Archaeological District, historic town and lumber mill site * Falk Township, Minnesota * "Falk" (short story), a 1901 short story by Joseph Conrad * Postal abbreviation of Falkirk, an area of Scotland See also *Falx (other) *Faulk (other) * Falck (other) Falck may refer to: * Falck (surname) * Falck (emergency services company), Danish emergency service corporation * Falck Group, Italian steel mill company * Falck Renewables, Italian renewable energy project developer * Falck USA, American emer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maypole
A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European List of folk festivals, folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on May Day, 1 May or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected during Midsummer (20–26 June). In some cases, the maypole is a permanent feature that is only utilized during the festival, although in other cases it is erected specifically for the purpose before being taken down again. Primarily found within the nations of Germanic languages, Germanic Europe and the neighboring areas which they have influenced, its origins remain unknown. It has often been speculated that the maypole originally had some importance in the Germanic paganism of Iron Age and early Medieval cultures and that the tradition survived Christianisation, albeit losing any original meaning that it had. It has been a recorded practice in many parts of Europe throughout the Medieval and Early Modern pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limberg (Wiehengebirge)
Limberg may refer to: * Limberg is a village of the municipality Maissau, a town in the district of Hollabrunn in Lower Austria, Austria. * Limberg bei Wies, municipality in the district of Deutschlandsberg in Styria, Austria. * Limberg (grape), another name for the wine grape Blaufrankisch * Limberg (Wiehen Hills), a hill in the Wiehen Hills, Germany, and site of Limberg Castle People * Limberg Chero Ballena, professor from Perú * Limberg Gutiérrez (b. 1977), Bolivian football (soccer) player * Limberg Méndez (b. 1973), Bolivian football (soccer) player * Kriemhild Limberg (born 1934), German discus thrower See also * Limberger (other) Limberger may refer to: * A synonym for the grape variety Blaufränkisch People with the surname *Carl Limberger (born 1964), Australian tennis player *Thomas Limberger Thomas Peter Limberger (born 22 July 1967) is a German-American industrial m ... * Limburg (other) {{disambiguation, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preußen
Preußen or Preussen is the German word for Prussia. It also refers to: Ships * ''Preußen'' (ship), windjammer built in 1902 * SMS ''Preußen'' (1873), armored frigate * SMS ''Preußen'' (1903), pre-dreadnought Battleship * , vorpostenboot Football * BFC Preussen, football club in Berlin * SC Preußen Münster, football club in Münster * SV Viktoria Preußen 07, football club in Frankfurt * Preußen Danzig Preußen Danzig was a German association football club from the city of Danzig, West Prussia (today Gdańsk, Poland). __TOC__ History The club was established in 1909 as ''Turn- und Fechtverein Preußen Danzig'', a gymnastics and fencing club. ..., former football club in Danzig (Gdańsk) Other * 5628 Preussen, asteroid See also * Preußisch (other) * Prussia (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Preussen German words and phrases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafschaft Ravensberg
A was originally the name given to the administrative area in the Holy Roman Empire over which a count, or , presided as judge. It is often, therefore, translated as 'county'. The term has survived as a placename in German-speaking countries, for example, in Germany and in Switzerland. According to the early Saxon legal document, the which dates to around 1230, the or count is a special judge () who, in the name of the king may preside at a juridical court, in certain cases, under the king's ban, i.e. king's authority. The type of 'ban' cases derived from the nature of the kingdom: From that followed the exclusive responsibility of the king – and thus the count – to deal with allegations against the nobility. As part of the court "under the king's ban" there was a bench of jurors made up of the nobility, the . The area of the county was roughly that of modern rural German districts or counties (). On the emergence of states in the Late Middle Ages, the acquisiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallburg
Wallburg is German for hillfort, ringwork or fortified village and may refer to: Places * Wallburg, North Carolina * Wallburg Realschule, a school in Eltmann, Germany * , a village in the borough of Ettenheim, Germany Castles and forts Germany * , in Lower Franconia, Germany * , a ruined fort in Waldshut district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * near Meggen, Germany * , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * , Landkreis Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * , Bad Laasphe in Nordrhein-Westphalia, Germany * , Alb-Donau-Kreis, Germany * , Attendorn, Germany * , Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Germany * , Remscheid, Germany * , Münster, Germany Other places * , Estonia * Chrobry fortified village in Szprotawa Silesia, known in German as ''Wallburg Chrobry in Szprotawa'' People * Otto Wallburg (1889–1944), German actor See also * Wahlberg (other) * Wahlsburg, municipality in Germany * Walberg, a surname * Walburg (other) * St. Walburg (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
