Image Copyright: mit frdl. Genehmigung Schloss B�ckeburg

Bückeburg Palace with mausoleum
The magnificent Weser Renaissance palace of the earls and princes has been often served as a setting for movie and TV productions and is still today, the residence of the counts zu Schaumburg-Lippe. Enter the grand halls and feel for a moment like a lord of a castle or a damsel.

Tel. 05722 5039, Fax 05722 909184,
schlossbueckeburg@t-online.de,
www.schloss-bueckeburg.de


Fürstliche Hofreitschule Bückeburg
The Fürstliche Hofreitschule (Princely Riding School) is in Germany unique for the presentation of horsemanship from Renaissance and Baroque times. International equestrian artists show in a historical ambiance and relevant costumes, forgotten gaits and schools on, in parts, endangered horse breeds.

Schlossplatz 6 b, 31675 Bückeburg
Tel. 05722 898350, Fax 05722 9090821
info@die-hofreitschule.de, www.die-hofreitschule.de


Helicopter Museum Bückeburg
42 rotary wing aircrafts - better known as helicopter - can be seen at the Helicopter Museum in Bückeburg. Nowhere else are so many originals in one place. From rebuilding of the first idea-sketches by Leonardo da Vinci to the heaven-stormers of today.

Tel. 05722 5533, Fax 05722 71539, www.hubschraubermuseum.de

Visitor-Mine Kleinenbremen
Have you ever felt the urge to go underground - totally legal and without any risks? Then enter the gallery and pits of the Visitor-Mine Kleinenbremen and get to know about the working world of the underground ore mining.

Tel. 0571 93444-35 and -42, Fax 0571 93444-44
Sat and Sun Tel. 05722 1726
www.bergwerk-kleinenbremen.de


World of Experience Steinzeichen Steinbergen
You shouldn't suffer from giddiness, when you visit the staircase building >Millennium View< a breathtaking view over the North German Plain into Weserbergland. The affiliated theme park Steinzeichen Steinbergen mediates geology and the history of the earth as an event.

Tel. 05751 917590, Fax 05751 74072
info@steinzeichen.de, www.steinzeichen.de


Dampfeisenbahn Weserbergland e.V.
The black beast of the historic steam railway Weserbergland invites you on a nostalgic short trip. The technique from the middle of the industrial age are as fascinating as the tranquil way of travel at that time!

Tel. 05751 5113 (timetable announcement) clampfeisenbahn@t-online.de www.dampfeisenbahn-weserbergland.de


Recreation area Doktorsee in Rinteln
Sports, play and fun offers the Doktorsee near Rinteln not only to its permanent camping guests. Day visitors are able to enjoy swimming in the quiet landscape of the Weseraue, go surfing and dangle >one's legs>.

Doktorsee GmbH
Tel. 05751 964860, Fax 05751 964888
info@doktorsee.de, www.doktorsee.de


Rail trolley fun in Rinteln
Rail fun not only for railway nostalgic persons are the rail trolley trips on the rails of the old Extertalbahn. You will cycle with pedal power through the beautiful landscape of Rinteln to the Exter Valley and back.

Pro Rinteln e.V., Verein für Stadtmarketing
Tel. 05751 403988, Fax 05751 403989
prorinteln@rinteln.de, www.draisinen.de


Museum Amtspforte Stadthagen
Three big theme emphasises are important to the Museum Amtspforte, which is located at the entrance to the pedestrian zone. The Stadthäger economic life in the 19th and 20th-century, town history and the collection >Schaumburger traditional costumes<.

Wilhelm-Busch-Birthplace in Wiedensahl
Are you interested in the small parlour where the great painter, poet and picture book narrator Wilhelm Busch lived? The small museum at the Wilhelm-Busch-Birthplace in Wiedensahl will give you an understanding of the life of Max and Moritz's >father< in his native village. The combination of a visit with a bicycle tour >Wilhelm-Busch, (25 km) - see also note on page 10 - is recommended.

Tel. 05726 388
wilhelm-busch-geburtshaus@t-online.de
www.wilhelmbusch.de


Moor garden & boulder garden in Hagenburg
They are big and heavy and one can easily imagine how difficult it must have been to bring these rocks from thousands of kilometres to this place. They are called boulders, a stoney legacy of the last Ice Age. In the boulder garden Hagenburg, impressive exemplars are being presented and assigned to its place of origin.

Admission is free.

info@sachsenhagen.de, www.hagenburg.de


Open-air Dinosaur Museum in Münchehagen
Luckily, they are not real but made from synthetic resin. They are impressive giant saurians from distant geological eras, and lurk all over the terrain of the Open-air Dinosaur Museum Münchehagen. Apart from famous saurian trails of Münchehagen, current results of saurian research are being presented here.

Dino Park Münchehagen
Tel. 05037 2075, Fax 05037 5739
dino-park@t-online.de, www.dinopark.de


Lake Steinhude/ Island Fortress Wilhelmstein
Count Wilhelm was a great sovereign with a small estate. One of his daring ideas, the facility of a then unassailable fortress in the middle of the Lake Steinhude, is today, a popular destination. The artificial island, which can be reached by boat, is ideal for a walkabout in the shade of old trees or a visit of the small military museum.

Tourist-Information Steinhude
Tel. 05033 95010, Fax 05033 950120
Tel. Inselfestung 05033 1436
touristinfo.steinhude@t-online.de, www.steinhuder-meer.de
Steinhuder Personenschifffahrt
Tel. 05033 1721

Waterway intersection Minden
The Mittelland-Canal near Minden is being led over the river Weser in a giant concrete tub. this is something, which one doesn't see every day. Sightseeing is possible from the Schacht-sluice during a boat trip.

Minden Marketing GmbH, Tourist-Information
Tel. 0571 8290659, Fax 0571 8290663
www.minden.de


The Schillat-Cave, Hessisch Oldendorf
The Schillat-Cave situated near the legendary >Hohenstein<. Its attractive stalactite formations are unique in the Weserbergland. The trip through the mountainous world of the Schillat-Cave starts for visitors in a glass elevator. Among others, a >fairy tale forest< of calcite crystals awaits you. A special highlight is the 3-D slide-show with impressions of filigree stalactite formations of the strictly protected neighbouring >Riesenberg-Cave<.

Tel. 05152 782164
Fax 05152 782211
tourist@stadt-hessisch-oldendorf.de
www.hessisch-oldendorf.de


Erlebniswelt Renaissance
The Theme Park Renaissance is one of Europe's most innovative leisure and culture projects with seven planed locations in the Weserbergland, three of those on the Schaumburger Land.
In September/October 2005, the EWR-locations in Hameln, Rinteln and Stadthagen were opened. For the Palace Bückeburg as centrepiece and special jewel of the Schaumburger Renaissance-building, work is at full blast for the opening.
With multimedia support (e-guider), at all locations, the visitor will perceive the Renaissance in a way as he was there >live< himself.

Rinteln
In Rinteln, the visitor can enjoy a theme walkabout through the former university town of the year 1623. According to the motto >Love dies last< one can re-experience the true event love story bewteen the student Adam and the mayor's daughter Lukretia. Start is in the city centre.

Stadthagen
The unique staging of the Reformation takes place at the location Stadthagen in the St-Martini-church and the affiliated mausoleum. For the theme >Luther and the countess - what does the guard know<, the visitor is being taken back to the restless time of the Reformation by lively audio drama and surprising sound backdrops by >contemporary witnesses<.

Tel. 0180 0413330 (12 ct/min), Fax 05151 4036850
info@erlebsniswelt-renaissance.de, www.erlebniswelt-renaissance.de