Hellwegbörde – Börde landscape between Erwitte and Geseke

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56,4 km
4:00 h
357 m
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227 m
86 m
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The Hellwegbörde plain has been shaped by agricultural use for thousands of years. Deep quarries and stream valleys known as "Schledden", which only hold water after heavy rainfall, provide an insight into the geological history.

The Hellwegbörde is an important breeding area for farmland birds – some of them rarities, like the Montagu's Harrier – but also for Partridges, Quails and Skylarks. In the Schledden valleys and quarries, the abundance of flowers in the nutrient-poor meadows attracts large numbers of butterflies and grasshoppers.

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Hellwegbörde – Börde landscape between Erwitte and Geseke

59590 Geseke
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You can start the circular cycling route through the Hellwegbörde at the park "Mythos Stein", an old limestone quarry south of Geseke. It leads along the Westerschledde and past the Eringerfeld forest on the Haarstrang range of hills at Oestereiden. In Westereiden the route crosses the Pöppelsche Valley in two places before it goes down again past the Erwitte quarries into the low plain of the Unterbörde. In this area, the route passes the Muckenbruch nature reserve. In Geseke, the cycle path leads back to the starting point.

You are recommended to take binoculars for bird watching.

The area is easily accessible by car via the B1 and A44.

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On the long circular tour there a number of places where you can park your car, for example at the Park "Mythos Stein" and at the "Fortuna" limestone quarries south of Geseke.

By train (Hamm - Paderborn) to the stations Soest, Bad Sassendorf, Lippstadt and Geseke

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Natalia Jaworski

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Arbeitsgemeinschaft Biologischer Umweltschutz im Kreis Soest e.V

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