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This cafe is highly recommended. It's a great place for cyclists to take a longer break. The coffee and cake are delicious.

Interwall training is great here

A lovingly designed square with a large craftsman's tree and a shepherd's monument with sheep sculptures. This beautifully illustrates the town's history.

Hello dear people, there were four shafts in the Ibbenbüren coal mine, all of which of course served their own purpose. In addition to the Thedor shaft (location: Ibbenbüren / Laggenbeck), the Bockraden shaft (location: Ibbenbüren / Bockraden), the Oynhausen shaft (location directly next to the coal-fired power station), there was also the north shaft, where most of the crew went to during their shift times. On the currently (February 18, 2025) vacant site, there were offices, changing rooms, warehouses and storage areas.

Where the two channels meet there is always something going on

The churchyard and the adjacent café practically force you to take a break here. 🍰☕

The road winds partly through the forest and towards the top more in open landscape. Beautiful climb, through beautiful landscape.

Settlement in the area around Hopsten dates back to the Stone and Bronze Ages. The first written evidence dates back to 890 AD. The tax register of the Werden monastery on the Ruhr lists several farms in the Staden farming community. The first people settled on the old Flötte in the areas around the Stadener Esch, Rüschendorfer Esch and Stertesch. The southern farming communities of Breischen, Börnebrink and Aa were only settled later, as the moorland meant that only settlement on hills (on a "Hop seten") was possible. When Count Otto I of Tecklenburg acquired the Osnabrück High Bailiwick in 1236, the Schapen parish and the associated areas of Ostenwald and Stadener Wald became part of the County of Tecklenburg. The name Hopsten was first mentioned in a document in Osnabrück in 1265. There it mentions a ministerial named Fretherich von Hopseten.