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Velmerstot
Sign in to saveThe Velmerstot is the northernmost and highest hill in the Eggegebirge ridge in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two summits, the Prussian Velmerstot (Preußische Velmerstot) (468 m), which lies on the territory of Steinheim-Sandebeck in the county of Höxter, and the Lippe Velmerstot (Lippische Velmerstot) (, 441 m), which is located in the county of Lippe. The whole hill is part of the Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park.
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- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Elevation
- 464
- Image
- Velmerstot lip.jpg
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- Commons category
- Velmerstot
- topographic prominence
- 120
- mountain range
- Eggegebirge
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- Beschreibung
- Name
- Geologie
- Preußische Velmerstot
- NATO-Station
- Aussichtsturm
- Lippische Velmerstot
- Naturschutzgebiet
- Wetterstation
- Mythologie
- Sehenswürdigkeiten
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The Velmerstot is the northernmost and highest hill in the Eggegebirge ridge in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two summits, the Prussian Velmerstot (Preußische Velmerstot) (468 m), which lies on the territory of Steinheim-Sandebeck in the county of Höxter, and the Lippe Velmerstot (Lippische Velmerstot) (, 441 m), which is located in the county of Lippe. The whole hill is part of the Teutoburg Forest / Egge Hills Nature Park.
During the Cold War, the hill had a NATO and Dutch air defence installations; they left by 1994 and the installations were torn down in 2002/03.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Velmerstot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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