Lubbecke

Lubbecke is a metropolis in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany. This former county city lies on the northern slopes of the Wiehen Hills and has round 26,000 population. The metropolis is inside the Eastwestphalian district of Minden-Lübbecke. Lubbecke become first noted within the records in 775 as hlidbeki and became given town rights in 1279. The agreement of Lubbecke turned into first mentioned in 775 as hlidbeki in the Frankish imperial annals because the web site of a Saxon assault on a frankish camp. The town is named after the creek today referred to as "Ronceva" and approach little beck in English.

Lubbecke changed into the critical website of the Saxon hlidbeki gau. In those days there may also already have been a church in hlidbeki that dated back to the Saxon Angrivarii beneath their duke, Widukind, a tribe who had settled the vicinity at some point of the unfold of Christianity underneath Charlemagne. Lubbecke changed into the middle of an early church parish in the Diocese of Minden, and so the the Aristocracy who were native to the location in addition to the knightly family in Lubbecke have been ministeriales of the bishops of Minden. By 1279 Lubbecke have been given its city charter by way of the Minden Bishop Volquin of Schwalenberg.