Mensinger Ravine

52.2864328.623302Koordinaten: 52 ° 17 '11 " N, 8 ° 37' 24" E The Mensinger Canyon is a rugged valley section in Wiehengebirge in the field of city Luebbecke in the Minden -Lübbecke. The Mensinger gorge begins on the eastern slope of the root Brinks and runs from there to the north in an arc to the federal highway 239 toward. The gorge is about 800 meters long. The valley floor is located in the upper part at around 210 m above sea level. NN and falls to the bottom of the valley at 150 m above sea level. NN from. At the end of the valley lies the source of Ronceva. In the gorge itself, although caused by erosive influences, no permanent flowing creek - only with more intense rainfall, a water flow is here at the " upper reaches of the Ronceva " so to speak, nonexistent. The valley floor itself is partially impassable, just east of those runs, however, a forest, so that the canyon can be hiked in about 15 minutes. The Mensinger gorge is consistently forested. When Mensinger gorge is a typical example of Siepe, so a narrow, damp, canyon -like, mittelgebirglichen Kerbtals with spring creek. ( In the East Westphalian Ravens Berger country and Lipperland hot such landforms Siek ). The headwaters of the valley are not necessarily year-round water-bearing, as is the case with the Mensiger gorge as described, but the creek is the cause for the emergence of Kerbtals. However, it must be considered in the terrain profiling that were larger in the post-glacial period, the effluent water quantity in the low mountain ranges, including the Wiehengebirge, so that the streams were stronger than today cut into the terrain. This is the reason that the Mensiger gorge is so pronounced, despite the current rather marginal water flow at the canyon floor.

• Wiehengebirge
• Luebbecke
• Geography ( district of Minden -Lübbecke )