Welstorf

Welstorf City of Lemgo Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	approx. 170 m
Residents :	196  (December 31, 2006)
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32657
Area code :	05261
Location of Welstorf in Lemgo

Welstorf is a district of the city of Lemgo in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The place is about eight kilometers northwest of the center of Lemgo in the valley of the Ilse .

Welstorf between Talle (to Kalletal ) in the northeast, the Lemgo district Matorf-Kirchheide in the south, which to deserts belonging hamlet pill break in the west and the city of Vlotho or the District of Herford in the north.

history

At the end of the 12th century Welstorf was first mentioned in writing as Weleristincthorp . Other historically documented names are Welderikincthorpe and Welekincthorpe (both after 1241), Welsinctorpe (1313), Wellersinctorpe (1333), Welssendorp (1359), Welsentorpe (1402), Volsinctorpe (1475), Wolsendorp (1487), Welsinckdorp (1488 ) ), Welsentruppe (1502), Welsintorppe (1507, in the Landschatzregister), Welssentroppe (1535, in the Landschatzregister), Welsenntrupp (1572, in the Landschatzregister), Walsdorp (1579), Welstrup (1590, in the Landschatzregister), Welstorff (1615, in the Salbuch ) and Welschtrup (1758).

Until the incorporation according to the Lemgo law on January 1, 1969, Welstorf was an independent municipality in the Lemgo district . This was dissolved on January 1, 1973 and merged with the Detmold district to form the Lippe district.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 511. ( PDF )
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 68 .