Egge (Wiehen Hills)

The Egge, also called the Preußisch Oldendorfer Berg[1] is a roughly seven-kilometre-long secondary ridge of the Wiehen Hills and gives its name to the Eggetal valley in the districts of Osnabrück and Minden-Lübbecke in North Germany.

The state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony divides the ridge at a pass called the Durchbruch ("breakthrough") over which the road from Preußisch Oldendorf runs into the Eggetal and to Bruchmühlen, about two-thirds of the Egge belonging to Westphalia.

The best-known hill on the Egge is the Limberg with its castle ruins of the same name that is situated in the far east of the ridge and is a popular tourist destination.

The clearly defined crests may have derived their names for the formerly common description of Eggem meaning "selvage", the edge of a strip of linen.

The pass above the town of Preußisch Oldendorf for the aforementioned north-south link, the Kreisstraße 79, is an artificial Döre, cut 9 metres deep into the rock.