Salzkotten

Salzkotten is a city in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany and belongs to the district Paderborn inside the south of the executive district Detmold, which is identical to the vicinity Ostwestfalen Lippe. Geographically and culturally, it belongs to the Burener Land and the location Hochstift Paderborn. To the location belongs the previous Saline Salzkotten. One of the oldest records of human agreement within the vicinity of modern day city of Salzkotten is the house of Thule.

Excavations in the place of the improvement area close to the Dreckburg, which lies to the east of the metropolis middle, have proven that settlement already took place within the center of the 6th millennium BC. Chr. It turned into additionally a continuous settlement from the Iron Age 700 BC till the early Middle Ages around the year 800 may be detected. In the early middle Ages, the place belongs to the Duchy of Saxony, which turned into conquered in levels among 772 and 804 by using Charlemagne and the Frankish Empire is connected. Throughout the middle Ages, salt production is an integral a part of the city's economic existence and has special rights.