Obermehnen

Obermehnen
Obermehnen
Ortsteil of Lübbecke
	Location of Obermehnen within Lübbecke
	Obermehnen Obermehnen
	Coordinates: 52°17′08″N 8°34′40″E / 52.285487°N 8.577747°E
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
District	Minden-Lübbecke
Town	Lübbecke
Area
• Total	9.58 km2 (3.70 sq mi)
Elevation	54 m (177 ft)
Population (2007-12-31)
• Total	1,360
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	32312
Dialling codes	05741

Obermehnen is a village in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the county of Minden-Lübbecke. The village belongs administratively to the town of Lübbecke. Obermehnen has 1,360 inhabitants and an area of 9.6 km². At around 137 people per km² Obermehnen has the lowest density of all of Lübbeck's districts, not least because 4.3 km², i.e. 45%,^[1] of the parish area consists of uninhabited hill forest on the Wiehen Hills. Obermehnen is thus the most wooded part of the borough of Lübbecke.

View of parts of the village. Background: the village of Limberg that belongs to Preußisch Oldendorf
The Preußenpfahl ("Prussian Post") in Obermehnen
Not far from the Preußenpfahl stands Obermehnen's maypole