Steinbekeweg Bad Lippspringe

The hunting lodge on the Dumberg with its beautiful thatched roof belongs to the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The Dumberg forest area was formerly owned by Lippspring. It was sold in 1934. The largest of all native raptors, the red kite, has its breeding grounds in the large woodlands.

In the vicinity of the Steinbeke state forester's lodge, we are delighted every year in March by the large numbers of spring snowflakes. The fact that some river courses disappear in the foothills of the Eggegebirge - on the Paderborn plateau - and reappear elsewhere is due to the karstification of the limestone. So-called swallow holes form in this fissured rock, in which the water seeps away and can continue to flow underground. This can be observed, for example, in the Steinbeke and also in the Beke, which flows between Altenbeken and Neuenbeken.
The Steinbeke has its source in the Bielsteinhöhle nature reserve and flows into the Lippe south of Lippspringe.