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Haustenbeck Ruins

North Rhine-Westphalia

Detmold District

Kreis Lippe

Schlangen

Haustenbeck Ruins

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Haustenbeck Ruins

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Location: Schlangen, Kreis Lippe, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Furlbach Valley Nature Reserve – Ems River Source loop from Augustdorf

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2. Ems River Source – Hövelsenner Chapel loop from Paderborn Nord

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3. View of Stapelager Senne – Trail to Bienenschmidt loop from Helpup

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MrIdea

November 1, 2018

Haustenbeck was founded in 1659. In 1677 it received its own church[6] and had to make way for the expansion of the Senne military training area in 1937. At this time Haustenbeck had about 1300 inhabitants.

From 1937 to 1939 the residents of Haustenbeck were resettled; most of the residents found a new home in the Moorlage settlement in Horn-Bad Meinberg, in Isenbüttel or in Blumenberg, today a district of Wanzleben-Börde in the Magdeburg Börde, as well as on the free housing market in Lippe. In 1939, the Haustenbeck parcels of land were incorporated into the municipality of Oesterholz.[1]

The residents who had not found a new home by the end of 1939 were quartered in houses that had already been vacated in Hövelsenne and the so-called outskirts settlement on the edge of the military training area. After the war, some former residents of Haustenbeck and refugees also settled in 19 houses in the town center for a short time. However, they had to evacuate the town center immediately after the British Army of the Rhine took over the military training area from the US Army in August 1945.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oesterholz-Haustenbeck

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Eric

April 12, 2023

Unfortunately you can't go inside. But also nice to look at from the outside.

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Schwerte-Radler

February 17, 2024

The history of Haustenbeck is closely linked to the settlement history of the Senne and its changes over time. Originally part of the Senne region, which had low agricultural yields and was therefore known as the "Desertum Sinedi", it was not very suitable for agriculture, but the residents used the region mainly for sheep breeding and horse breeding with the well-known Senner horses. The traffic geography of the Senne, with its rivers Lippe and Ems, which were historically used as trade routes, occasionally brought interest in the source regions near Haustenbeck, although traffic remained limited to small paths and roads. A field railway made logistics in the region easier from 1914 to 1945.

The town of Haustenbeck itself gradually developed into a row village and gained a certain importance in 1659 with the establishment of a border station by Hermann Adolf Graf and Edler Herr zu Lippe, especially for the collection of customs duties on the Lippe border. The Evangelical Church of Haustenbeck, inaugurated in 1685, marks one of the historical centers of the town. The settlement and development of the region were promoted both by the Protestant side of Lipperland and by the Catholic prince-bishops of Paderborn.

In the course of military expansion and the expansion of the Senne military training area, the residents of Haustenbeck were resettled between 1937 and 1939, with most finding a new home in the Moorlage settlement in Horn-Bad Meinberg or in other towns. This marked the end of the town as an inhabited place. The Haustenbeck region was subsequently used primarily as a training ground for the military, including housing French prisoners of war and later Russian prisoners of war, who were employed in, among other things, forestry and a furniture factory. The Haustenbeck Tower, an observation tower for the training area, was partly built by these prisoners of war.

Today the Haustenbeck desert is a reminder of the former settlement and its history. The region and its history are an example of the profound changes that military and geopolitical developments have wrought on the landscape and in the lives of the people of the Senne.

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1. Furlbach Valley Nature Reserve – Ems River Source loop from Augustdorf

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