Barntrup

Barntrup is a town in the North Rhine Westphalian district of Lippe. Above the district Herborn and on the top of the Gaffe berg there are Bronze Age burial mounds. The earliest lines of settlement of the neighborhood environment have been found by using reveals from the overdue Mesolithic duration in the context of the archaeological investigations of burial mounds in the Frettholz. The unearths hand axes and stone axes are in the possession of the Lippe State Museum in Detmold. Barntrup and Alverdissen are urban foundations of the Counts of Sternberg, whose territory become separated in 1220 from the dominion of the Schwalenberg counts.

Originally called Barntrup Barendorf and lay as early settlement on Schratweg, in which even nowadays an antique cadastral piece Aule Kerke is referred to as. Between 1317 and 1359 a new Berninctorp was constructed at the Thorne berg, the ridge that pushes from east to west into the higher Begatal, which was planned as a settlement on the highest point of the 189 m high ridge and with its 3 street system the Former middle of latest Barntrups paperwork. In 1376, Barntrup become granted town rights by using Count Heinrich von Sternberg.