Egge (Wiehen Hills)

The harrow, even Prussian Oldendorfer mountain or Oldendorfer mountains is a about seven kilometers long tributary of the back of the Wiehengebirge and namesake for the Eggetal in the circles of Osnabrück and Minden- Luebbecke. The border between North Rhine -Westphalia and Lower Saxony shares together with the well-known under the name of breakthrough pass, for the driveway of Prussian Oldendorf into Eggetal and after Bruchmühlen the ridge, with approximately two- thirds of Harrow belong to Westphalia.

Besides the name for the entire ridge Harrow known, in some official maps and a peak with a height of 198 m above sea level. NN Eininghausen north and east of the Geisberg 201 meters above sea level. NN; However, these names use is rare. The Wiehengebirgs section of the main ridge between New Mill and Horst height is referred to as The Harrow maps.

The ridge runs parallel at a distance of about two to three kilometers to the main ridge of the Wiehengebirge between the villages Lintorf, a district of Bad Food and Bad Holzhausen, a district of Prussian Oldendorf.

As the highest mountain is generally the 211 -meter-high black Brink in the west of Harrow. Nevertheless, there are north of Büscherheide an arable area, which is 218 meters slightly higher. The most famous mountain of the harrow is located in the far east destination Limberg with the eponymous castle ruins, in front of the west is the bar Kamp, a large deforested plateau; about them, a road connection from the Landwehr on the main road 65 to Börninghausen.

The harrow is forested mainly on the steep northern slope, the forest area covers approximately 1,300 hectares. While in the north of the tree line up partially to 70 m above sea level. NN reaches down, the 200 meter contour line allows the slope with low flat tilt use as arable land to an average of 150 meters, in some cases even beyond. With the Wiehe tower near the border, there is a well-known observation tower. The eastern part of the harrow is part of the nature reserve Limberg and Offelter mountain.

The summit of Harrow have like almost all mountains in Wiehengebirge an elongated ridge peaks, which are also called as the summit harrow harrow 198 meters above sea level. NN north of Eininghausen. These harrows are separated from the subsequent peaks only by Dören. - The much trained combs could have their name obtained from the earlier common designation harrow for selvedge, longitudinal edge of the linen.

The pass above the town of Prussian Oldendorf for the above north -south county road 79 is a 9 m deep cut into the rock artificial Döre. Street and breakthrough were performed as emergency work in the years 1924-1927, commemorative plaque. This road link replaced today the historical Eininghauser Patt, today Eininghauser way in the field of Oldendorfer Switzerland, which illustrates the steep rise just before the height of the harrow.

The Harrow lie north at the Lintorf Steinbrink 136 m above sea level. NN, above Harlinghausen occasionally stubborn mentioned height 157 m above sea level. NN in the hallway Langenhegge and above Oldendorf of the left mountain 123 m above sea level. NN and the Brümmel 165 m above sea level. Sea level at the western foothills of the mountain 178 m above sea Offelter. NN.

This dissection of a further parallel, weaker or disturbed trained gewesenen harrow with Hartegge and the central Nordegge lower height, allowing runoff to the north for just 1 km wide valley between it and the southern higher Harrow: the Landwehr Bach from above Dahlinghausen and the Great Dieck river with its inflowing streams. The latter formed the Oldendorfer Switzerland, the former the smaller Dahlinghauser Switzerland, as the forest -fringed area could be called. Both are equipped with a Schweizen to 121 m above sea level. NN reaching down Talung connected - a small wooded equivalent of Eggetals with a wide variety of networked trails in this area of ​​Oldendorfer Vorhöhen.

In the harrow the hard rock ( Malm ) is revealed, which was exploited in the quarries in many places.

"Name value is still coal mining in Lintorf at the Oldendorfer harrow. He arose from patriotic motives, under the leadership of Justus Moser. To 1790 16.000 Ringel = 860 tons were brought to light a year, which was enough for the needs of the nearby countryside. Beginning of the 19th century was one of the operation and was not resumed due aloof from location. "

This was from 1791 to initially unsuccessful mining attempts on the Prussian side of the border-river country Wehrbach occasion. It was not until 1809 and with sustained success in 1840 they came across a worthwhile seam, so that about 50 workers were employed in the coal mine " Amalia ". The coal was the operators of lime kilns around very welcome. Eisenstein was also encouraged. The following mines Rudolph and Rudolph II were decommissioned in 1897 and renewed attempts failed finally in 1916 until 1921.

Waters

In the harrow springs from the Great Dieck river. The area drained one hand over the mill stream, the Great River Dieck, the Offelter Bach, among others in the Große Aue. The western part of the ridge drained et al over the brook Glane in the Hunte. Not far from the Limberg is the fire water pond beams Kamp.