Greste

Greste Leopoldshöhe municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 25 ″ N , 8 ° 42 ′ 14 ″ E
Height :	118 m
Area :	8.33 km²
Residents :	3174
Population density :	381 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	33818
Area code :	05202
	Location of Greste in Leopoldshöhe

Greste is a formerly independent municipality and now the largest district in the southeast of the municipality of Leopoldshöhe in the Lippe district . It borders the city of Lage in the east and the city of Oerlinghausen in the south.

Aerial view of Greste

geography

Greste is located north of the ridge of the Teutoburg Forest in the Ravensberg hill country . The undeveloped areas predominantly consist of agricultural land.

Together with the districts of Asemissen and Bechterdissen , Greste forms a built-up settlement area.

The district also includes the Hagen settlement Greste-Dorf as well as the farming communities Dahlhausen and Evenhausen on the L 751; until the 1970s it led directly through this village.

history


Aerial view of Greste	Aerial view of the Greste industrial park

The place Greste was first mentioned in 1488. Hof Meier zu Ermgassen was mentioned as early as 1395.

On September 1, 1921, the municipality Leopoldshöhe was re-formed from parts of the municipality Greste and the dissolved municipality Hovedissen .

As part of the reorganization of the community, Greste came to the community of Leopoldshöhe on January 1, 1969 through the Lemgo Act . The last mayor of the community from 1961 to 1969 was Fritz Huvendiek.

Individual evidence

↑ Roland Linde: Courts and Families in Westphalia and Lippe: The Asemissen Officials Meierhof and the Barkhausen Office (= Heinrich Stiewe [Hrsg.]: Courts and Families in Westphalia and Lippe . Volume 1 ). BoD - Books on Demand, Horn, Bad Meinberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3666-1 , p. 30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 257 .
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 68 .
^ Regional documentation at the Lippische Landesbibliothek

[LindeErmgassen-1] Roland Linde: Courts and Families in Westphalia and Lippe: The Asemissen Officials Meierhof and the Barkhausen Office (= Heinrich Stiewe [Hrsg.]: Courts and Families in Westphalia and Lippe . Volume 1 ). BoD - Books on Demand, Horn, Bad Meinberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3666-1 , p. 30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 257 .

[3] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 68 .

[4] Regional documentation at the Lippische Landesbibliothek