Rahden is a town in the far north of North Rhine-Westphalia between Bielefeld and Bremen and between Hanover and Osnabrück.
Population: 16,140
Latitude: 52° 26' 1.21" N
Longitude: 8° 36' 45.47" E
The Battle of Minden—or Tho(r)nhausen—was fought on 1 August 1759, during the Seven Years' War. An army fielded by the Anglo-German alliance commanded by Field Marshal Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, defeated a French army commanded by Marshal of Fran…
The Girl of the Uchter Moor also known as Moora is the name given to the female Iron Age bog body remains, discovered in 2000 in the marshland near Uchte, Germany. The remains include vertebrae, hair and skull pieces. The studies of the body began i…
The Central Uplands (German: die Mittelgebirge) is one of the three major natural regions of Germany and covers most of the land area of the country.
Minden-Lübbecke is a Kreis (district) in the northeastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The Wiehen Hills (German: Wiehengebirge, also locally, just Wiehen) are a low mountain range in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany. The hills run from west to east like a long finger away from the main upland area of the Lower Saxon …
The Diepholz Airfield Circuit was an auto racing circuit in the south-west of the town of Diepholz, Germany.
The Dümmer See or Dümmer is a large lake in southern Lower Saxony (Germany). It has a surface of 13.5 km² and an average depth of one metre.
The TERRA.vita Nature Park (German: Naturpark TERRA.vita) is located in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia and is divided into northern and southern areas.
The Minden Aqueduct (German: Wasserstraßenkreuz Minden) is an aqueduct near Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It actually consists of two parallel water bridges, that lead the Mittelland Canal over the Weser. The older of the two bridges is n…
Heyden power station is located near Petershagen in Germany.
The Großes Torfmoor (also called the Hiller Moor or Nettelstedter Moor) is a raised peat bog or moor located in the northeast of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (in the district of Minden-Lübbecke) in Germany south of the Mittelland Canal. It is…
Bussche is the name of an old East-Westphalian noble family. The Lords von dem Bussche belonged to the nobility in the County of Ravensberg.
Rehden is a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Diepholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
The Minden Museum Railway (German: Museumseisenbahn Minden) or MEM was founded in 1977 as a society. Its aim was to preserve historic railway vehicles and operate them on the Minden District Railway (Mindener Kreisbahn or MKB). It was not long befor…
The Middle Weser Valley (German: Mittlere Wesertal) is part of the Weser Depression around the River Weser on the North German Plain, extending from the gap of Porta Westfalica to the town of Hoya. It is not a true valley, because it is only bordere…
The Weser Depression (German: Weserniederung) or Weser Lowlands is the region north of Porta Westfalica in Germany, where the River Weser no longer flows through a valley, but a broad plain consisting of meadows and river terraces.
Lemförde (German: Bahnhof Lemförde) is a railway station located in Lemförde, Germany. The station is located on the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway.
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 R…