Limberg Castle

The Limberg is a hill in the Egge, a side ridge of the Wiehen Hills, south of Preußisch Oldendorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The ruins of Limberg Castle are located on the hillside.

Preußisch Oldendorf (German: [ˈpʁɔʏsɪʃ ˈʔɔldn̩dɔʁf] ) is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In 1905 the town name Oldendorf was changed officially by putting "Preußisch" in front of it, to make the distinction from other towns with the same name more easy (especially for mail and train stations).

The Maschberg is a hill, 190.2 m above sea level (NN), in the Wiehen Hills and on the boundary between the village of Rödinghausen and the town of Preußisch Oldendorf. The Maschberg is the highest point in the Rödinghausen parish of Schwenningdorf. The Maschberg, like almost all the hills in the Wiehen, has an elongated crest or Egge and is only separated to the hills to the west by dören. As a result, the hill is only perceived as a prominent summit. A long distance path, the Wittekindsweg, runs over the summit. To the west the Wiehen Hills climb again to the Nonnenstein. To the east the range descends into the water gap of the Große Aue to a height of 80 m above NN. Southwest of the summit rises the stream of Wehmerhorster Bach. The name "Maschberg" refers to the Börninghausen village of Masch (also Mesch), which lies northeast of the hill in the valley of Eggetal.

The Egge, also called the Preußisch Oldendorfer Berg is a roughly seven-kilometre-long secondary ridge of the Wiehen Hills and gives its name to the Eggetal valley in the districts of Osnabrück and Minden-Lübbecke in North Germany. The state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony divides the ridge at a pass called the Durchbruch ("breakthrough") over which the road from Preußisch Oldendorf runs into the Eggetal and to Bruchmühlen, about two-thirds of the Egge belonging to Westphalia. In addition to describing the entire ridge, in many maps the Egge is also shown as referring to a summit with a height of 198 m above sea level (NN) north of Eininghausen and east of the Geisberg 201 m above NN; this usage is rare however. The section of the main crest of the Wiehen Hills between Neue Mühle and Horst Höhe is referred in maps as Die Egge ("The Egge"). The ridge runs parallel to the main crest of the Wiehen at a distance of around two to three kilometres from it and between the villages of Lintorf in the borough of Bad Essen and Bad Holzhausen in the borough of Preußisch Oldendorf. The highest hill on the ridge is the 211-metre-high Schwarzer Brink in the west of the Egge. At the same time there is a parcel of arable land north of Büscherheide that, at 218 metres, is somewhat higher. The best-known hill on the Egge is the Limberg with its castle ruins of the same name that is situated in the far east of the ridge and is a popular tourist destination. Before it to the west is the Balkenkamp, a large, cleared upland over which runs a road link from the landwehr to the B 65 federal road to Börninghausen. The steep northern slopes of the Eggen are predominantly forested; the woods cover an area of around 1,300 hectares. Whilst in the north the forest boundary extends as low as 70 m above NN in places, the southern slopes with their more suitable gentler slopes enable their cultivation up to an average of around 150 metres and, in places, 200 metres. The Wiehen Tower near the state border is a well known observation tower. The eastern part of the Egge belongs to the Limberg und Offelter Berg Nature Reserve. The summits of the Egge have, like almost all the hills in the Wiehen, an elongated crest, which are also called Eggen like the peak of Gipfel Egge (198 m above NN) north of Eininghausen. These Eggen are separated from one another only by hill passes called Dören. The clearly defined crests may have derived their names for the formerly common description of Eggem meaning "selvage", the edge of a strip of linen. The pass above the town of Preußisch Oldendorf for the aforementioned north-south link, the Kreisstraße 79, is an artificial Döre, cut 9 metres deep into the rock. The road and cutting were carried out as emergency work from 1924 to 1927. This road link, which replaced the historical Eininghauser Patt, is called Eininghauser Weg and runs through Oldendorf Switzerland, explains the steep climb just before the heights of the Egge.

The Schierenbeke is a 2.4-kilometre-long (1.5 mi) left tributary of the Große Aue, or Neuer Mühlenbach as it is known in its upper reaches in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The stream lies entirely within the East Westphalian parish of Rödinghausen in the district of Herford.

The Wehmerhorster Bach is a stream in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany which rises on the Maschberg. It flows into the Schierenbeke near Rödinghausen.

The Klosterbach is a right-hand tributary of the Große Aue, which is known as the Neuer Mühlenbach at the point where they join, in north Germany. The Klosterbach lies entirely within the parish of Rödinghausen in the district of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia. The Klosterbach emerges north of Bieren near the Donoer Berg on the southern edge of the Wiehen Hills at a height of 152 m above sea level (NN). The stream discharges into the Große Aue after 1.6 kilometres at a height of 94 m above NN at river kilometre 82.9 on the Aue. The Klosterbach descends a height of 58 metres.

The Große Aue (in its upper reaches known as the Aue and then also the Neuer Mühlenbach or Mühlbach) is an 88-kilometre-long (55 mi), southwestern, left tributary of the River Weser in northern North Rhine-Westphalia and central Lower Saxony in Germany.

The Lübbecke Loessland (German: Lübbecker Lößland) is a natural region that is mainly situated in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia but with a small area also lying in the western part of Lower Saxony in Germany. It is a belt of land, covered by loess, about 2 to 5 km wide and around 35 km long, that lies just north of the eastern part of the Wiehen Hills. The total area of the region is about 100 km2. The Lübbecke Loessland is a transitional region between the North German Plain and the Central Uplands. To the north it borders on the Rahden-Diepenau Geest and, to the east, on the Middle Weser Valley. The town of Lübbecke lies in the centre of the region.

Hollwinkel Wood (German: Hollwinkeler Holz) is a woodland area that lies mainly on the territory of the borough of Preußisch Oldendorf in the North German county of Minden-Lübbecke. Within the wood the terrain is almost entirely level, lying between 50 and 52 metres above sea level (NN). A negligible piece of woodland in the south of only about 0.58 hectares belongs to the town of Lübbecke. With a wooded area of 47 hectares it is the largest stretch of woodland between the Wiehen Hills and the Mittelland Canal within the county of Minden-Lübbecke and also the largest wood in the borough of Preußisch Oldendorf north of the Wiehen, and Egge. In addition there is no woodland anywhere near this size within a radius of 4.5 km (i.e. 63 km2 of the surrounding area). The wood measures around 1.3 km from northeast to southwest and, at its widest point, around 700 metres (2,300 ft) from east to west. Hollwinkel Wood is bounded in the west by the Große Aue river and in the east by the boundary of the borough of Lübbecke. The Mehner Bach stream flows through the wood in the far northeast. In the northwest of the wood is a 0.25 hectare pond with a small island. The wood is almost purely deciduous forest. Around 4 kilometres of walking trails and forest tracks make it a popular recreation area for the surrounding towns and villages. A road crosses the wood from northwest to southeast in its southern region thus enabling it to join the K 80 state road (Kreisstraße) in the west. The importance of this relatively small area of woodland derives from the fact that the county of Minden-Lübbecke is one of the least forested districts in Westphalia, only 10.6% of its area being forested. The Wiehen foothills in particular to the north are intensively farmed and have few large areas of woodland.

Dornmühlenbach is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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, e vorrömische Eisenzeit, therefore probably part of an extensive trading network. The fortification has an area of over 12 hectares. The first mapping of this hilltop, which was exceptionally well-suited to the establishment of a large hillfort with its spring high up the hills, was carried out after 1880.Ceramic finds from the Saxon-Frankish period have also been discovered. According to Paul Höfer there is a legend that refers to Wittekind.