PORTA WESTFALICA

'Porta Westfalica' is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name "Porta Westfalica" is Latin and means "gate to Westphalia". Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia. Despite the Latin name the term was not coined in Roman times, but by scholars of the 19th century.

Contents

Geography

Neighbouring places

Division of the town

Twin Towns

History

Buildings and structures

External Links

Geography

Porta Westfalica is situated on the right bank of the Weser, near the Porta Westfalica gorge, where the river runs through the passage between the mountain chains of the Wiehengebirge in the west and the Weserbergland in the east.

Neighbouring places

★ Bad Oeynhausen

★ Minden

★ Bückeburg

★ Rinteln

★ Vlotho

Division of the town

The town of Porta Westfalica consists of 15 districts:

★ Hausberge (5,255 inhabitants) ★ Lohfeld (1,487 inhabitants) ★ Barkhausen (4,143 inhabitants) ★ Neesen (2,455 inhabitants) ★ Lerbeck (3,724 inhabitants) ★ Nammen (2,398 inhabitants) ★ Wülpke (664 inhabitants) ★ Kleinenbremen (2,691 inhabitants)

★ Eisbergen (3,673 inhabitants) ★ Veltheim (2,838 inhabitants) ★ Möllbergen (1,706 inhabitants) ★ Holtrup (1,089 inhabitants) ★ Vennebeck (1,064 inhabitants) ★ Costedt (494 inhabitants) ★ Holzhausen (4,287 inhabitants)

Twin Towns

★ Hansestadt Demmin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)

★ Waterloo, Illinois (USA)

★ Berlin-Kreuzberg (Berlin, Germany)

History

Porta Westfalica was established in 1973 by merging fifteen villages surrounding the gorge. The centre of the modern town is the former village of 'Hausberge', which was first mentioned in 1096.

Buildings and structures

★ Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower, a TV tower with an observation deck.

★ Monument of ''Kaiser-Wilhelm'' in the village ''Barkhausen''

External Links

★ Official site