Externsteine
The Externsteine is a distinctive sandstone rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg in the Lippe district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Externsteine relief and Barnacken.
Externsteine relief
Memorial
Photo: Nikater, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Externsteine relief is a monumental rock relief depiction of the Descent from the Cross scene, carved into the side of the Externsteine sandstone formation in the Teutoburg Forest.
Barnacken
Peak
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At 446.4 m above sea level the Barnacken is the highest hill in the Teutoburg Forest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Jüdischer Friedhof
Cemetery
Jüdischer Friedhof is a cemetery, which is situated 1¼ km east of Externsteine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horn and Heiligenkirchen.
Heiligenkirchen
Village
Photo: Tsungam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Heiligenkirchen is a village, which is situated 5 km northwest of Externsteine.
Veldrom/Feldrom/Kempen
Village
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Veldrom/Feldrom/Kempen is a village, which is situated 5 km south of Externsteine.
Externsteine
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: rock formation in Germany
- Categories: geotope, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Horn-Bad Meinberg, Kreis Lippe, Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Externsteine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صخور اكسترنشتاينه”
- Aragonese: “Externsteine”
- Bulgarian: “Екстернщайне”
- Catalan: “Externsteine”
- Cebuano: “Externsteine”
- Chinese: “埃克斯滕岩石”
- Czech: “Externsteine”
- Danish: “Externstenene”
- Dutch: “Externsteine”
- Esperanto: “Externsteine”
- Finnish: “Externin kivet”
- Finnish: “Externsteine”
- French: “Externsteine”
- Galician: “Externsteine”
- German: “Eggesterstein”
- German: “Extern-Steine”
- German: “Externsteine”
- German: “Extersteine”
- Hebrew: “Externsteine”
- Hebrew: “אקסטרנשטיינה”
- Hindi: “एक्स्टेर्सैन”
- Italian: “Externsteine”
- Japanese: “エクスターンシュタイネ”
- Japanese: “エクステルンシュタイネ”
- Japanese: “エクステルン岩”
- Japanese: “エクテルンシュタイネ”
- Low German: “Externsteen”
- Low German: “Externsteene”
- Low German: “Externstenen”
- Low German: “Externsteune”
- Macedonian: “Ексерски камења”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Externsteine”
- Polish: “Externsteine”
- Portuguese: “Externsteine”
- Romanian: “Externsteine”
- Russian: “Externsteine”
- Russian: “Эксерские камни”
- Russian: “Экстернштайне”
- Saterfriesisch: “Externsteine”
- Spanish: “Externsteine”
- Swedish: “Externsteine”
- Swiss German: “Externstai”
- Tosk Albanian: “Externsteine”
- Ukrainian: “Екстернське каміння”
- Western Frisian: “Externsteine”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Externsteine”. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.