The Schaumburger Land located in Lower Saxony, on the northern edge of the Weser Uplands, west of the Hanover region.
Regions
places
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- Stadthagen, urban center of the region
- Bad Eilsen
- Bad Nenndorf
- Buckeburg
- Obernkirchen
- Rinteln
- Rodenberg
- Wiedensahl
Other goals
background
The Schaumburger Land holiday region extends over the area of the former Grafschaft Schaumburg, which was divided into a Hessian and a Lippe part in 1647/1648. The Hessian part, like the entire Electorate of Hesse, was annexed by Prussia in 1866 and initially belonged to the Province of Hesse-Nassau, after an administrative reform it was assigned to the Province of Hanover in 1932. The principality (or after the revolution in 1918 the Free State) of Schaumburg-Lippe was an independent state in the German Empire until it was united with Hanover, Braunschweig and Oldenburg to form the new state of Lower Saxony in 1946 by order of the British occupying forces. Since then, both parts of the Schaumburger Land have belonged to the same federal state again and in 1977 the two districts of Grafschaft Schaumburg (Rinteln) and Schaumburg-Lippe (Stadthagen) were merged into the Schaumburg district.
The area extends from the Lippe mountains in the south through the Weser and Auetal to the steinhuder sea. This also includes parts of the Deister and the Süntels.
language
In discussion groups and in the conversation of older residents, Low German, here a variant of the East Westphalian Platt, is still used.
getting there
The closest international Airport is located in Hanover-Langenhagen (HAJ). From there you can take local trains (change once at Hannover Hbf) to the Schaumburger Land in about an hour.
The closest long-distance train stops are Hanover and Minden (Westf). From both of them you can take the S-Bahn line S1 and the Westfalenbahn to Haste, Stadthagen and Bückeburg every hour. The S-Bahn also stops in Lindhorst and Kirchhorsten. Depending on the destination, it takes 20–50 minutes from Hanover and 5–25 minutes from Minden. Rinteln, on the other hand, is served every hour by the Nordwestbahn Hildesheim – Hameln – Löhne.
The A2 motorway runs right through the region. There are connection points in Bad Nenndorf, Lauenau, Auetal-Rehren and Bad Eilsen. Several national highways such as the B 65, B 83 and B 442 cross the area.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- Schaumburg Castle above of Rinteln with a wide view of the Weser Valley.
- Stone sign Steinbergen (4 km northeast of Rinteln or just as far southeast of Bad Eilsen) with a view of the millennium.
- lock Buckeburg with the castle park and the mausoleum.
- Dinosaur tracks in the Obernkirchen sandstone quarry.
- Half-timbered buildings in Stadthagen.
- Birthplace by Wilhelm Busch in Wiedensahl.
- steinhuder sea with Wilhelmstein Island.
