The Hellweg Börde (German: Hellwegbörde) is a börde landscape and natural region on the southern edge of the Westphalian Lowland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which embraces the old Hellweg trading route cities and towns of Dortmund, Unna, Werl and Soest extending to Salzkotten and from there in an ever narrower strip to its northeastern tip at Schlangen on the edge of the town of Bad Lippspringe.
It is characterised by its heavy deposits of post ice age loess soils.
In the west the loess soils of the Hellweg Börde continue into the Westenhellweg region.
grain was already being cultivated here on the fertile, calcareous land.
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