Goestrup

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Goestrup
Extertal municipality
Coat of arms of Göstrup
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 150–334.4 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.19 km²
Residents : 188  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 30 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 32699
Area code : 05262
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Location of Göstrup in Extertal
Göstrup, view from the south. Left the Buntenberg , right the Meiersberg

Göstrup is a village in East Westphalia-Lippe and with 188 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016) the smallest district of the municipality Extertal in the district of Lippe in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is in the west of the municipality Extertal, newly founded by the Lemgo law , in the southern Weser Uplands to the left of the Weser, and until then it was an independent municipality. It lies at an altitude between 150–334.4 meters above sea ​​level . To the east of the village, near the neighboring district of Nalhof , is the course of the Exter , which gave the municipality its name.
Bösingfeld , the main town of the municipality, is located approx. 6 kilometers (km) to the southeast, Rinteln 10 km to the north and Lemgo 12 km to the south-west (all information measured as the crow flies ).

history

Today u. Testifies to the prehistoric settlement of the area. a. a barrow on the "Meiers Berg". On the Buntenberg there are remains of stone and earth walls, the origin of which has not yet been investigated in more detail archaeologically. Göstrup was first mentioned in writing as Ghossinctorpe in 1383 . After being temporarily devastated , the place was settled again before 1507.

On January 1, 1969, the previously independent municipality of Göstrup was incorporated into the new municipality of Extertal.

Infrastructure

The state road NRW 957, which connects the federal road 238 with the Extertal road , runs through the village . This (state road NRW 758) merges at the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony between Silixen and Krankenhagen in the state road L 435 (Lower Saxony) and connects the cities of Barntrup and Rinteln through the Extertal. The Extertalbahn , which is now only used for tourism, runs almost parallel to the road . There were train stations and stops in Almena , Fütig and Nalhof.

Today neither agriculture , forestry nor tourism play an economically significant role.

A sight in the neighborhood is the Sternberg music castle , which belongs to the Asmissen district to the south and is located in the “Linderhofe” area.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ extertal.de
  2. ↑ Tim-online.de
  3. ^ Friedrich Hohenschwert: "Prehistoric and early historical fortifications in Lippe". Lippe Studies, Vol. 4, Landesverband Lippe (Ed.), Münster 1978
  4. ↑ Birgit Meineke : The place names of the Lippe district. (=  Westphalian Place Name Book Volume 2). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89534-842-6 , p. 175. ( PDF )
  5. ↑ Willy Gerking: The desertions of the Lippe district: a historical-archaeological and geographical study of the late medieval desert events in Lippe. Aschendorff, 1995, p. 44; 76, ISBN 9783402050354
  6. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 67 .
  7. ↑ http://www.burg-sternberg.de/