The German Black Pied Lowland Cattle (Deutsches Schwarzbuntes Niederungsrind) is a traditional, dual-purpose breed with a focus on milk production that has been kept in Westphalia for centuries. Robust and adaptable, it provides plenty of milk and meat. It is one of the roots of the world’s most widespread dairy cattle breed, the Holstein-Friesian. In the past, Black Pied Lowland Cattle shaped farms and regional agriculture. Today, the LWL-Museum Hellerlecht is helping to preserve the breed through its own breeding program.
The Red Highland Cattle (Rotes Höhenvieh) is an old breed from the German low mountain ranges. In Westphalia, it was particularly widespread in the Siegerland region. Robust, undemanding, and long-lived, it provided milk and meat and helped with work on small farms in rough terrain. It is therefore also described as a triple-purpose cattle breed. Today, the Federal Working Group for Red Highland Cattle organizes the preservation of the breed.
