Hollwinkel Wood

The Hollwinkeler Wood is a forest area that is predominantly in the area of the city Prussian Oldendorf in Minden- Lübbecke. Within the forest there are hardly any differences in height, he is between 50 and 52 m above sea level. A negligible part in the south of only around a 0.58 hectare of land belongs to the city Luebbecke. With a forest area of ​​47 hectares it is the largest forested area between the Wiehengebirge and Mittelland Canal within the district of Minden -Lübbecke and also the largest forest in the town of Prussian Oldendorf north of the Wiehengebirge, or the harrow. In addition, there is no nearly as large forest area within a radius of 4.5 km (pronounced 63 km ² surrounding areas ). The expansion of the forest from northeast to southwest is approximately 1.3 miles and at its widest point it measures from east to west about 700 m. The Hollwinkeler wood is bounded on the west by the Große Aue and on the east by the border of the city Luebbecke. The Mehner stream flows through the forest in the north- east. In the northwest of the forest lies a 0.25 large pond with a small island.

It is a nearly pure deciduous forest. About four km of hiking trails and forest roads make it a popular recreational area of ​​the surrounding villages. A highway crosses the wood from northwest to southeast in the southern area, thus providing the link to the county road K 80 in the west safe. The importance of this relatively small forest area due to the fact that the Minden- Luebbecke with only 10.6 percent of forest area one of the least wooded counties Westphalia is. In particular, the intensively farmed northern foothills Wiehe has only about a few larger forest areas.