page_title: E11 European long distance path
section_title: Töddenweg and Wittekindsweg (205 km)
hierarchical_section_title: E11 European long distance path / E11 in Germany (996 km) / Töddenweg and Wittekindsweg (205 km)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Auf dem Wittekindsweg nahe dem Nonnenstein im Wiehengebirge bei Rödinghausen, Kreis Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Lichtung entstand durch den Orkan Kyrill. English: Wittekind hiking trail of Wiehengebirge to Rödinghausen, District of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
context_page_description: The E11 European long distance path or E11 path is one of the European long-distance paths, running 2560 km west-east from The Hague in the Netherlands through Germany and Poland to the Lithuanian border. It starts in Scheveningen, a fishing community, commercial harbor and spa in The Hague on the Dutch coast of the North Sea. As there now are rambling organizations from Estonia and Latvia participating in the European Ramblers' Association, the E11 will likely be extended to reach Tallinn.
  The E11 is one of three European long distance paths running East from the Benelux to Eastern Poland. In the North, following the German and Polish coasts of North Sea and Baltic Sea, the E9 offers a variety of polders, sandy beaches, dunes and commercial harbors. More to the South, the E3 crosses through the long range of medium-sized mountains that links the mainly Belgian Ardennes to the Carpathian Mountains. The E11 takes an intermediate course through the rolling lowlands of Northern Germany and Poland. Nowhere does it touch a sea, but it passes a single medium-sized mountain range, the Harz Mountains in the center of Germany.
context_section_description: After Bad Bentheim, E11 follows the border between the German federal states (Länder) of Lower Saxony and Northrhine-Westphalia over about 200 kilometers, which means that one crosses their border at least every day. This is true for both the Töddenweg and the Wittekindsweg, which form the respective continuations of the Marskramerpad.
  The Töddenweg (a regional name to be translated as Peddlers Way) used to begin in Oldenzaal in The Netherlands, but has its start now in Bad Bentheim, an old siege of German nobility with a medieval castle (partly museum) and a functioning spa. A set of 3 maps can be downloaded or ordered from EUREGIO. A different map can be obtained from the website Spazieren.de. In its present form, from Bad Bentheim to Osnabrück, the Töddenweg measures 110 kilometers. It is marked by stickers with a white capital T on a black square, or by a simple T painted on trees and walls. It cruises slightly elevated above the surrounding agrarian land.
  The continuation after Osnabrück's monumental railway station is called Wittekindsweg (Widukind's Way), named after Widukind, an 8th-Century war leader who long upheld the conquest of Saxony by Charlemagne. Remarkable is that his long and brave resistance resulted in his appointment as the first Duke of Saxony under Charlemagne. Just before the sensational descent to Porta Westfalica, the trail passes the giant monument to the honor of Wilhelm I, German Emperor from 1871 till his death in 1888. The building is placed in such a way, that even today, all who pass in a train or on the motorway, see it high on the slope that ends the Wiehengebirge.
caption: Panorama along the Wittekindsweg
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