page_title: Porta Westfalica
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Porta Westfalica / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of part of an old German postcard sent in 1904, showing Porta Westfalica.
context_page_description: Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  The name "Porta Westfalica" is Latin and means "gate to Westphalia". Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia. The name was coined by scholars of the 19th century.
context_section_description: Porta Westfalica is situated on the right bank of the Weser (except for the Barkhausen quarter), near the Porta Westfalica gorge, where the river runs through the passage between the mountain chains of the Wiehen Hills in the west and the Weser Uplands in the east. The gorge appears like a gate to the region Westphalia, which lies to the south of it. It is overlooked by the Jakobsberg and Wittekindsberg hills.
caption: View of Porta Westfalica from a postcard dated 1904.
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