Qualla: Bad Bentheim https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bad Bentheim https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim Bad Bentheim: Introduction https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim/ The hill rises out of nothing. Drive west from Osnabruck across the flat green Lower Saxon plain and there is no hint of relief - until a wooded ridge lifts itself above the fields, and on that ridge a castle made of pale gold sandstone catches the sun. Burg Bentheim has been standing on that outcrop since at least 1116, and the stone it is built from - Bentheimer Gold, the locals call it - traveled by barge and cart into Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aarhus, and quite possibly New York Harbor.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/1/bad-bentheim-wp/u1m1-bad-bentheim-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bad Bentheim: A Stone That Built Half the North Sea https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim/ Between the 15th and 18th centuries, Bentheim sandstone was a small industrial empire. Quarried from outcrops at Gildehaus and the main town, it was shipped to Munsterland, East Frisia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. The Royal Palace in Amsterdam is made of it. The theate...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/1/bad-bentheim-wp/u1m1-bad-bentheim-a-stone-that-built-half-the-north-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Bad Bentheim: The Castle on the Sandstone https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim/ Burg Bentheim first appears in a 1116 document as a stronghold of the Counts of Bentheim, and unlike most medieval castles in this part of Europe, it never became a ruin. It is still owned by the Princes of Bentheim-Steinfurt, still partly inhabited, and partly open as a museum. ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/1/bad-bentheim-wp/u1m1-bad-bentheim-the-castle-on-the-sandstone.mp3 0:06 3 full Bad Bentheim: The Bath That Made It Bad https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim/ Around 1711, someone discovered curative sulphur springs bubbling up beneath the town. By the 19th century, Bentheim had become a respectable spa - Bad simply means bath. Queen Emma of the Netherlands brought her fifteen-year-old daughter Wilhelmina here in 1895 for several weeks...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/1/bad-bentheim-wp/u1m1-bad-bentheim-the-bath-that-made-it-bad.mp3 0:06 4 full Bad Bentheim: Quarries Turned Theaters https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim/ Centuries of stone-cutting left holes in the hillside, and the town turned several of them to good use. The Bentheimer Freilichtbuhne, an open-air stage, sits inside three disused quarries - a natural amphitheater with sandstone walls that catch and warm the evening light. Plays ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/m/1/bad-bentheim-wp/u1m1-bad-bentheim-quarries-turned-theaters.mp3 0:06 5 full Bad Bentheim: A Border That Almost Moved https://qualla.com/bad-bentheim/ Bad Bentheim sits on the Dutch border - close enough that Almelo, Hengelo, and Enschede are easier to reach than most of Lower Saxony. In 1945, the Bakker-Schut plan would have annexed this whole strip of Germany into the Netherlands as reparations; American objections killed the...

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