The Nonnenstein is a hill, 274 m above sea level (NHN) , in the Wiehen Hills north of Rödinghausen , Germany . The Nonnenstein is also known in older literature as the Rödinghauser Berg .
29-547: There is a curiosity about the height of the mountain: due to a measurement or transmission error it was assumed until the 1960s that the Nonnenstein was 325 metres high and thus the highest mountain in the long ridge of the Wiehen Hills. In older lexical works at the beginning of the 20th century, i.e. well within the period when surveying was able to provide accurate values, and the height of other mountains such as
58-514: A Minden state castle or Landesburg . The fortifications in front of the castle show signs of medieval siege technology. The castle estate developed into the Minden Amt of Reineberg, which later became the Amt of Hüllhorst . Of the rudimentary remains of this castle site only the castle moat is still visible on the summit. it is 310 metres long and between 15 and 22 metres wide. It is said of
87-541: A cold and merciless manner that the impoverished peasants of the vicinity stormed the castle, destroying it except for a single tower and the foundation stone. Hence the name "Nonnenstein". In the vernacular, the name of the hill has been transferred to the viewing tower. From the upper platform, you can see as far as the Hermannsdenkmal in Lippe when the weather is good and the view is clear. A hundred metres from
116-583: A depiction of the Reineburg in its coat of arms. In 1951 an official survey of the visible remains of the castle was carried out. Local historian, Professor Langewische from Bünde , discovered that the Reineburg once had five outer baileys. From the southern edge of the town of Lübbecke, e. g. from the Waldstadion (stadium), the Reineberg may be reached on foot in 15–20 minutes. The parth around
145-709: A footpath (the Wittekindsweg ) along the Wiehen ridge from Osnabrück to Porta Westfalica , and links the Heidbrink with the Straußberg (276 m) in the east, and the Horsthöhe (275 m) and Kniebrink (315 m) in the west. To mark the highest point on the Heidbrink a five-ton sandstone block with strong iron deposits, typical of the local Wiehen Hills, was set up on 24 May 2008. According to information boards by
174-524: A fortified base of power for the bishops of Minden . Their intent was to hold their own against the Bishop of Osnabrück , the counts of Tecklenburg and the lords ( Edelherren ) of Diepholz . Later their importance grew even more through the expansion of the governance of the territory. Reineberg Castle was, as mentioned, according to a treaty of 1306, initially in the common ownership of the neighbouring prince-bishops of Minden and Osnabrück. In 1412 we find
203-475: A tournament: the knight who won was allowed to ask for her hand. And so it happened that, in the final of the tournament, the girl's father and the Lord of Limberg faced one another. They collided with their horses and lances so hard that they skewered one another and died. After this tragedy, Hildburga vowed to become a nun and turned her father's castle into a monastery. After her death, the nuns ruled there in such
232-618: Is a rock called the Burgwarte Nonnenstein . Heidbrink The Heidbrink is a hill which lies south of Lübbecke in central Germany and, at 319.6 m above sea level (NN) , is the highest peak in the Wiehen Hills . It is also the highest elevation in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Its height is commonly given as 320 metres. About 200 yards east of
261-413: Is also the name of a 14-metre-high observation tower on the hill (officially: Aussichtsturm auf dem Nonnenstein or "Viewing Tower on the Nonnenstein"). The tower was erected in 1897 as an Emperor William Tower . The Nonnenstein lies exactly on the boundary between the counties of Minden-Lübbecke and Herford . Originally it was lower; at the end of the 20th century the tower was raised in height due to
290-516: The TERRA.vita Nature Park , members of the Lübbecke marketing association ( Stadtmarketingverein ) and the municipal curator of Hüllhorst have marked the route to the "highest stone" with their own symbol. These are sometimes signposts, sometimes coloured markings, on wayside tree trunks. The symbol, the letter "H" on a hill symbol, is meant to be linked with the name and the appearance of the hill. At
319-506: The seneschal ( Drost ) of Limberg , Allhard von dem Busche. Attempts by Tecklenburg, to gain ownership of the castle were thus foiled. Reineberg Castle was turned into a strong fortress according to a contemporary account by the Minden cathedral canon, Tribbe, dating to the 15th century. Like almost all castles of this type the Reineburg was often enfeoffed due to its landlord's chronic shortage of money. Around 1525 we find Johann Tribbe as
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#1732773061569348-649: The 320 m high Heidbrink just under 1 km to the south. East of the Reinberg on the other side of a valley bottom rises the Heidkopf , west of the Meesenkopf , on the summit of which there was once a fortification. 230 metres southwest of the summit lies the Wittekind Spring , that had a certain importance for the garrison of the castle at the summit, but today is just a small pond by a rock outcrop at
377-538: The Prussian king, Frederick William I. In 1723 it was demolished due to its dilapidated condition. The remaining usable material was used in the construction of the government building in Minden and also for the new Amt office in the Reineberger Felde (called zum Siek ), where several domestic buildings already existed. Finally the castle came under the general influence of the Bishop of Minden and became
406-488: The Reineberg falls within the borough of Lübbecke, but once belonged to the Amt of Reineberg, later Hüllhorst. The old Amt of Reineberg or Amt Reineberger Feld existed from 1723 to 1807 and belonged to the Prussian Principality of Minden . Even today the Reineberg is the name of a village in the collective municipality of Hüllhorst south of the Wiehen Hills ( Ahlsen-Reineberg ). This municipality has
435-524: The Reineberg that the Saxon prince, Wittekind , who was suffering from leprosy, "came from the Limberge , reached the spring of Linderung on the western side, went from there to the Reineberg and was cleansed there. Whence the Reineberg received its name" ( rein = pure, clean). In this spring is supposed to be an underground vault with a magic entrance in which "King Weking's silver cradle stands" . Today
464-520: The Zugspitze were already determined to the nearest metre, it was even given a height of 336 metres. In fact, however, the Nonnenstein is only 274 metres high, i.e. 51 to 62 metres lower than had previously been assumed, and also visibly lower than the Heidbrink (319.6 m). Nevertheless, the Nonnenstein is still the highest point of the Wiehen Hills in the district of Herford . Nonnenstein
493-489: The bishop finally rescinded it in spring 1564. Because Hilmar von Quernheim did not respond, the bishop had the castle stormed on 2 May. But by 1567 Hilmar was again enfeoffed with the castle for twelve years following a treaty. During the Thirty Years' War the castle was badly damaged again and plundered three times: in 1636, 1638 and 1640. On 9 September 1636, Imperial Staff Sergeant ( Oberwachtmeister ) Heister, had
522-462: The castle goes back to Bishop Conrad I of Rüdenberg (1209–1237). Osnabrück sources report, however, that the Osnabrück bishop, Adolf von Tecklenburg (1216–1224), was the co-founder ( Miterbauer ). In 1271 Reinberg Castle was first mentioned in the records. In the outgoing years of the 13th century the bishops of Osnabrück and Minden were the common owners of the castle. Reineberg Castle acted as
551-405: The edge of a track. The Reineberg, which is the local hill for the town of Lübbecke, owes its significance to the fact that, until 1723, the year of its demolition, Reineberg Castle ( German : Burg Reineberg or Reineburg ) stood here. The origins of the country castle ( Landesburg ) of Reineberg are lost in legend. According to the episcopal chronicler of the town of Minden the founding of
580-705: The entire record office on the Reineberge burned. On 28 March 1673 Münster troops captured Lübbecke and Reineberg in the course of the Franco-Dutch War , because Brandenburg was allied with the Netherlands . Then all fell quite around the old episcopal castle - the Principality of Minden being awarded to Brandenburg as part of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. In 1719, Frederick William I decreed
609-468: The exact peak, but was not so obviously recognisable from the main footpath. Reineberg The Reineberg is a hill on the Wiehen ridge, south of the town of Lübbecke . With a height of 275.9 m above sea level it is, from a topographical point of view, not a particularly impressive eminence in this part of the Wiehen Hills, because, in the immediate vicinity are considerably higher summits, such as
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#1732773061569638-423: The increased height of the trees. There is a stylised depiction of the observation tower on the Nonnenstein on the coat of arms of Rödinghausen. According to legend, the tower owes its name to a beautiful damsel named Hildburga, the daughter of the knight whose castle stood on the hill. To the displeasure of her father, the young lady fell in love with a poor knight, the Lord of Limberg , and so her father organized
667-408: The knight ( Ritter ), Dietrich von Münchhausen, as the tenant of the castle, in a dispute with his landlord, Bishop Wulbrand, and the cathedral chapter of Minden, because he had enfeoffed the Reineberg without permission to Count Nicholas II of Tecklenburg. The bishop protested and besieged the castle. Tecklenburg troops advanced to do battle, but were driven off by Lübbecke's townsfolk with support from
696-422: The new summit stone are two tablets; the upper one describes the Heidbrink as the highest hill in the Wiehen range; the lower panel lists the sponsors of this marketing campaign. The new summit stone is not in the same place as the old and rather less imposing summit stone, but about 20 metres east. The original stone was removed during the work to set up the new one. But it appears that the original spot had marked
725-416: The seneschal of Reineburg. In 1543 the castle was enfeoffed to a widow, Clara of Hatzfeld, and her sons Meinolf and Joachim. Hardly had Bishop George come to power in 1554, when he issued the order to redeem all the enfeoffed castles in his diocese. This therefore also affected the then tenant, Hilmar von Quernheim . He wished to retain his fief however and was actually given an extension of several years until
754-469: The summit is a transmission tower for television and radio links and a wayside hut for walkers. The mast has a paved access road from the B 239 . The summit of the Heidbrink itself is in a small open area and, until 2008, was marked by a boulder. Due to the surrounding high trees the view is blocked to the north; to the south can parts of the Ravensberg Basin be seen. The Ronceva rises on
783-643: The tower, the Bismarck Beacon ( Bismarck-Feuersäule ) was built in 1911 on the initiative of the Bünde Fitness Club ( Turnvereins Bünde ) and Bismarck supporters from Rödinghausen. It is a six-metre-high sandstone column with a square ground plan and a Bismarck medallion at the front. The hill and its tower are on the course of the Wittekindsweg , part of the E11 European long distance path . In Saxon Switzerland near Dresden there
812-517: The union of the County of Ravensberg with Minden, and this was followed, from 1723 to 1808, by the establishment of the Chamber of War and Estates ( Kriegs- und Domänenkammer ) in Minden as a regional oversight of the administrations of the five Minden and eight Ravensberg districts or Ämter . The Reineburg was now enfeoffed several times together with its associated Amt and was under the command of
841-479: The western slope of the mountain. To the north are the peaks of the Reineberg , 276 m above sea level , and the Heidkopf , 273 m. The southern flank of the mountain drops steeply to the hamlet of Ahlsen-Reineberg in the municipality of Hüllhorst . The ridgeway ( Kammweg ) passes over the top of the mountain. It forms the boundary between the town of Lübbecke and the municipality of Hüllhorst. The ridgeway runs as
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