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The
Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower has an operations room at a height of 50 m and an observation platform open to the public at a height of 23.26 m, from which a good all-round view may be enjoyed, for example over parts of the Weser Uplands and the North German Plain as well as the
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with over a thousand prisoners, of which a considerable number worked in the
Jakobsberg. Women from the area also worked, under much better conditions, in the hill. After the end of the war the local population used their surviving knowledge of the mine system running through the hills to collect
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In 1958 the authorities of the town of Porta
Westfalica had the ruins of the monument made accessible and erected an observation platform on the plinth, that gives visitors a far-reaching view to the south and west, for example to the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument on the Wittekindsberg.
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to the
Jakobsberg. Disused galleries of an old iron ore mine were developed. Such galleries run through many parts of the Wiehen Hills and Wesergebirge, their entrances are usually walled up nowadays and made unrecognisable. In Hausberge and Barkhausen there was a satellite of
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In 1887 the crag, as the Porta Bluff, was made accessible by members of the
Hausberge Tourism Club. From there it offers a good view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument on the Wittekindsberg and over the River Weser in the Porta Westfalica gorge.
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brought this to an end with a demolition that caused pictures to fall from the walls up to a distance of 15 kilometres away and that created part of the present-day riverside front of the
Jakobsberg.
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The
Deutsche Bundespost, as owners of the tower, was once again contractually obliged to have a Bismarck memorial and an observation platform on the new tower. Today the tower is owned by
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as well as being a popular local destination. It adapted to changing circumstances over time by undergoing several conversions; but has since become empty and fallen into disrepair.
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About 150 m northwest of the
Schlageter Monument on the western slopes of the Jakobsberg above a steep, southwest dipping crag is the Porta Bluff (
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In the closing phase of the Second World War, most likely in March 1944, the manufacture of pipes by the firm of
Philips was moved from the
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International
Tracing Service HQ. Catalogue of Camps and Prisons in Germany and German-occupied Territories. Arolsen, April 1950
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over which the points of interest on the hill may be reached. Access for private vehicles is the village of Hausberge.
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flows from the hill country northwards into the plain. The hill on the opposite side of the gorge to the west, the
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was built on the highest point of the Jakobsberg (235.2 m) im memory of the old imperial Reich Chancellor,
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material from the production facilities and sell it on the
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215:Geography
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