The Velmerstot is the northernmost and highest hill in the

Eggegebirge The Egge Hills (, ), 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 range near Horn-Bad M ...

ridge in the German state of

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. 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. It lies the heart of the Weser Uplands, and is the seat of the Höxter district. The district of Höxter has a popul ...

, 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 () 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 now the largest in Germany, covering an area of . Th ...

. During the

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, the hill had a

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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
{{Authority control Nature reserves in North Rhine-Westphalia Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia Lippe Natura 2000 in Germany