06/12/2021
Last week I was on the Velmerstot. The Velmerstot is a mountain - actually a high low mountain range hill - in the Teutoburg Forest or in the Egge Hills. The highest point is about 464 meters above sea level. The Velmerstot lies half in the district of Lippe and the other half in the district of Paderborn. It is a very beautiful viewpoint and you can hike from the small village of Leopoldstal to the top in one or two hours. The Velmerstot has two peaks. The Prussian Velmerstot (464 meters) and a little further north the Lippian Velmerstot, which is slightly lower at 441 meters.
I was there last Thursday and already started from Leopoldstal shortly after seven in the morning. Nobody was on the way except me, although the weather was really nice.
There used to be a NATO base for air defense on top of the summit. But that has been history for 25 years. Today you can walk on the whole summit area and the landscape has been renaturalized.
Lippischer Velmerstot (Lippian Velmerstot)
Old quarry under the Velmerstot summit #1
Old quarry under the Velmerstot summit #2
Rock below the Velmerstot summit
European columbine at the Velmerstot summit
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