Wittekindsburg

Porta Westfalica

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Where: Porta Westfalica

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Wittekindsburg (Minden-Lübbecke) stands in Porta Westfalica (Kreis Minden-Lübbecke), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The building is a listed Baudenkmal. Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

The Wittekindsburg sits on a ridge of the eastern Wiehengebirge, straddling the boundary between Minden and Porta Westfalica. This elongated hilltop rampart, roughly 660 metres long, dates back to the pre-Roman Iron Age and was later reused as a refuge by the Saxons, said to take its name from their leader Wittekind. Sections of the eastern and northern earthworks still survive, along with the remains of a small convent and church founded in the 10th century under Bishop Milo of Minden. Today the site combines archaeological remains, a Romanesque chapel and protected woodland along the Wittekindsweg ridge path.