Historical hiking trail Lage-Hörste

In every region, especially in every village or in every urban landscape, traces of history can be found again. Seen in this way, every landscape is a mirror of the past, present, and future of its inhabitants. The "Historical Trail" in Lage-Hörste has made it its mission to make the historical history of Hörste accessible to interested laypeople. This is done using the example of the Hörster farms. Since the territorial reorganization in 1970, the district of Hörste has belonged to the city of Lage. For centuries, Hörste was a farming community and an independent political municipality. Today, Hörste also includes the old districts of Hiddentrup and Stapelage. Viewed on a larger scale, Hörste is located in the area of the northern Teutoburg Forest, bounded to the north by the Lippe Mountain Range, to the south by the Bielefeld Osning and the Egge, to the west by the Ostmünsterland, and to the northwest by the Ravensberger Mulde. The spelling of Hörste was initially "Hursten" (1188), later "Horsten" (1262) and initially meant something like shrubbery, low wood, later low undergrowth. The name can be explained by the landscape at that time.