The Community of Altenbeken is embedded in the “Nature Park Teutoburger Forest and the Egge Mountains” between the Spas Bad Lippspringe, Bad Driburg and Horn-Bad Meinberg, in the North West region of the Paderborner Land.
The Egge, with its steep valleys, its brook moors and grass meadows presents a most varied low mountain range, which forms a link between the Teutoburger Forest and the Sauerland.
More than half of the community’s area is forest land and going for a walk in the spring, when the sweet woodruff, birthwort and wild garlic are in bloom and the forest is transformed into a sea of colour, is a unique and wonderful experience.
For many rare species of fauna and flora the forests around Altenbeken are irreplaceable habitats and hence, 2.600 hectares of this area have been declared as a nature conservation resort, known as the “Waldreservat Egge-Nord”. It stretches from the area of the Durbeke brook right through to the Egge Ridge and is of European importance in the protection of species and biotopes.