--- title: "Porta Westfalica – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Porta Westfalica, Germany: Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Nearby: Emperor William…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/porta-westfalica" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/porta-westfalica.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Ausblick_von_der_Porta-Kanzel.jpg/1920px-Ausblick_von_der_Porta-Kanzel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany # Porta Westfalica Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ![Porta Westfalica](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Ausblick_von_der_Porta-Kanzel.jpg/1920px-Ausblick_von_der_Porta-Kanzel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Porta Westfalica · Jörg Braukmann The place Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Westfalica), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Porta Westfalica 4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Emperor William Monument The Emperor William Monument, near the town of Porta Westfalica in the North Rhine-Westphalian county of Minden-Lübbecke, is a colossal monument above the Weser gorge of Porta Westfalica, the "Gateway to Westphalia". It was erected to honour the first German Emperor, William I, by the then Prussian Province of Westphalia between 1892 and 1896 and emerged against the background of a rising German national identity. 3.7 km · colossal monument near Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalian, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_William_Monument_(Porta_Westfalica%29) 2. Wittekindsberg The Wittekindsberg is a hill, 281.48 m above sea level, which forms the easternmost peak of the Wiehen Hills and is also the western guardian of the Weser gorge, the Porta Westfalica, in North Rhine-Westphalia. The hill is well-known, especially as the site of the Emperor William Monument, but also for the Moltke Tower and Wittekind Castle. 4.4 km · mountain near Porta Westfalica, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittekindsberg) 3. Jakobsberg The Jakobsberg is a hill, 235.2 m above sea level, that forms the westernmost peak of the Wesergebirge chain and is the eastern guardian of the Weser gorge, the Porta Westfalica or "Westphalian Gate", in North Rhine-Westphalia. The summit is the site of the Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower, which stands on the site of a former Bismarck Tower, near the Bismarckburg Inn, the Schlageter Monument and the Porta Bluff. 2.8 km · mountain in Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsberg_(Porta_Westfalica%29) 4. Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower is a 142-metre-tall TV tower built of reinforced concrete on the 238-metre-high elevated Jakobsberg near Porta Westfalica. Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower was built May 1, 1974 and September 28, 1978 as replacement for a small telecommunication tower also equipped with an observation deck, which was built in 1952 on the site of the former Bismarck column, erected in 1902. 2.8 km · tower · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsberg_Telecommunication_Tower) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Porta Westfalica **Airports:** Hannover (HAJ), 58 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 71 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 85 km\ **Stations:** Porta Westfalica station, 3.1 km\ - Hannover → Porta Westfalica 58 km · quickest by road, 58 min · €8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hannover-to-porta-westfalica) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hannover&to=Porta+Westfalica) - Büren → Porta Westfalica 79 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €10–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/buren-to-porta-westfalica) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%BCren&to=Porta+Westfalica) - Greven → Porta Westfalica 91 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · €11–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/greven-to-porta-westfalica) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Greven&to=Porta+Westfalica) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Porta%20Westfalica) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Porta Westfalica Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Porta Westfalica. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 291 km 2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 491 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 694 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 729 km 5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 901 km If you know how people move in Porta Westfalica – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cporta-westfalica&title=Porta+Westfalica&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fporta-westfalica), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Porta Westfalica Porta Westfalica is 34 km from [Bielefeld](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bielefeld), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. [The place page for Porta Westfalica](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/porta-westfalica) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/porta-westfalica, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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