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Old Stone Weir, Lippstadt

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Old Stone Weir, Lippstadt

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Old Stone Weir, Lippstadt

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Location: Lippstadt, Kreis Soest, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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J.B.

October 20, 2021

Nice places for a break

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Steffen

November 5, 2022

Beautiful buildings on the water.

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Roh Bert

December 27, 2022

The old stone weir from 1711/12 is one of the few visible remains of the former fortifications. It was built in place of a wooden dam using stones from the medieval Lippe Gate, expanded in the 19th century and extensively renovated in 1986.
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The stone weir has 10 culverts 1.8m wide, each with an 8cm thick and 1.9m wide wooden plank. Because the wooden planks could be lowered into the water as a bluff body, they fulfilled the function of a movable weir. At that time, the water could be diverted into supply ditches. These moats were the city's moats. The Steinwehr was created to expand Lippstadt into the strongest fortified town between the Rhine and Weser. In 1711, on the orders of King Frederick I, construction of the weir began and was completed in 1712. The piers are shod with ice deflectors on the upper stream. The outer surfaces of the stone weir are clad with limestone.
In 1985 the building was entered in the list of monuments. Due to the old stone weir, Lippstadt is known as the city with the most water in Westphalia.
The city park adjacent to the old town opens up from there to the east into the Lippeauen. However, an expansion of the park landscape into the eastern valley meadows is prevented there by the federal highway 55 crossing.

Author: Eric Wollessen
Source: wollesen.info/das-steinwehr

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