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and

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in Germany. It is the northernmost and smallest of Germany's

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ranges. Like the adjacent municipality of Stemwede, the ridge gets its name from the medieval Free County (''Freigrafschaft'') of Stemwede.

Location

The Stemweder Berg lies on the southern rim of the

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Relief

Amongst the elevations on the Stemweder Berg are the following − sorted by height in metres above

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(NN):
Abbreviations:

= LS,

= NRW * Kollwesshöh (181.4 m), NRW * Scharfer Berg (180.1 m), NRW * Schlichter Brink (ca. 170 m), NRW * Rauher Berg (167.8 m), NRW * Wegmannsberg (160.5 m), NRW * Kahler Hügel (146.4 m), NRW * Junger Berg (ca. 145 m), NRW * Dorenberg (140.3 m), NRW * Feldbrink (128.1 m), LS * Ostenberg (127.4 m), NRW * Lemförder Berg (124.0 m), LS *

Brockum Brockum is a municipality in the district of Diepholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alp ...

er Klei (116.5 m), LS * Wehdemer Klei (98.1 m), NRW The Dielinger Klei (91.7 m, NRW) may also be included as it is a dominant hill in the Stemwede area. Falk Oberdorf Stemweder Berg Neigung

Streams

Amongst the

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

s near the Stemweder Berg are the: * Großer Dieckfluss, a western tributary of the

Große Aue The Große Aue (in its upper reaches known as the ''Aue'' and then also the ''Neuer Mühlenbach'' or ''Mühlbach'') is an , southwestern, left tributary of the River Weser in northern North Rhine-Westphalia and central Lower Saxony in Germany. ...

, which passes the ridge to the south *

Hunte Hunte () is a long river in north-western Germany (Lower Saxony), a left tributary of the Weser. The Hunte rises in the Wiehen Hills. In the North German Plain it flows through lake Dümmer. It flows generally northwards through the towns B ...

, a southwestern tributary of the

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, which passes the ridge some way to the west

References

External links

Diepholz Photo Gallery: Stemweder BergHistory and stories of the Stemweder Berg and Dümmer See
{{Authority control Hill ranges of Germany Forests and woodlands of North Rhine-Westphalia Stemwede