The Gronenburg - this large forest area is located between Hanseller Strasse and west of Mühlenstrasse in the Westerode farming community. It belongs to the Schulze Gronover farm.
This forest area got its name from a small country house, manor and hunting lodge, called "Gronenburg", which was built there around 1620 by the cathedral canon Wilhelm von Elverveld. The cathedral chapter of Munster maintained extensive fish ponds and ducks there. The house was demolished in 1793 because it had become dilapidated. The floor plans of the hunting lodge and the associated garden can still be seen today.
In 1832 this common mark, which mainly consisted of heather, was divided. The peasant shareholders used them together according to precisely defined rights and specifications as cattle drift, for mowing plagues and for the extraction of construction, firewood or useful wood for their own use.
It was only the Prussian government that tackled the division of the brands and in 1821 created a general commission that initiated the division of the brands everywhere. Most of the farmers were by no means enthusiastic about this revolutionary innovation, which forced them to make numerous changes in their economy.
In October 1962, Bernhard Schulze Gronover had a 1.75 meter high memorial stone erected on a forest path in the northern area of the "Gronenburg", which the sculptor Albert Mazzotti from Münster made from Ibbenbüren sandstone.