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Horsthöhe Pass and Wittekinds Bridge

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Horsthöhe Pass and Wittekinds Bridge

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Horsthöhe Pass and Wittekinds Bridge

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Location: Lübbecke, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Moonbeam🌜

March 24, 2024

Horsthöhe (also Horsts Höhe) is a pass road on the federal highway 239, which leads over the Wiehengebirge and connects the Hüllhorst village of Niedringhausen in the south with the town of Lübbecke, north of the Wiehengebirge. The pass is named after the former district administrator of the Lübbecke district, Adolf August Ernst Ludwig Freiherr von der Horst. This prompted the construction of the first developed district road of that time from Lübbecke through the Wiehengebirge to Oberbauerschaft. Due to the construction of the B 239, the Sölter family's “Horst's Höhe” inn had to be demolished in 1976. The European long-distance hiking trail E11 and the Wittekindsweg run over the “Wittekindsbrücke” pedestrian bridge at the top of the pass. A little east of the bridge there is an explosives house hidden in the wall, where during the Cold War the wall masters stored explosives to equip the prepared explosive shafts.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_H%C3%B6he

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Martin

April 28, 2024

The best way to cross the B239 at this point is the Wittekindsbrücke at Horst's Höhe. Otherwise you have to go down at Barre-Bräu and climb back up again.

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Location: Lübbecke, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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