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20-533: The district of Lippe is named after the Lords of Lippe, who originally lived on the river Lippe and founded Lippstadt there, and their Principality of Lippe . It was a state within the Holy Roman Empire and retained statehood until 1947, when it became a district of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Lippe district nearly covers the same area as the historic county of Lippe. The first mention of this country

40-794: Is a river, a tributary of the Rhine , that flows through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Its overall length is 83 kilometres (52 mi) with a mean outflow near the mouth into the lower Rhine of 16 m /s (570 cu ft/s). The Emscher has its wellspring in Holzwickede , east of the city of Dortmund . Towns along the Emscher are Dortmund, Castrop-Rauxel, Herne, Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Bottrop, Oberhausen and Dinslaken, where it flows into

60-698: Is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bad Lippspringe close to the city of Paderborn . It runs westward through Paderborn, Lippstadt and then along the northern edge of the Ruhr area , parallel to the river Emscher and river Ruhr . The river finally enters the Rhine at Wesel . The river Lippe has been used as an infrastructure in Roman times. For the Romans the river (named Lupia )

80-762: The Datteln-Hamm Canal and 1930 the Wesel-Datteln Canal are located in parallel to the Lippe which is not navigable for mass transportation. The canals receive Lippe water or feed the Lippe (to improve dry weather flow) from an exchange facility in Hamm, operated by the Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle . Until the 1970s water pollution played no important role in the public debate but the environmental policy changed over

100-409: The Rhine. At the centre of a vast industrial area with 5 million inhabitants the river is biologically dead , as it was used as an open waste-water canal from the end of the 19th century. The subsidence caused by coal mining along its route made the option of subterranean sewer pipes running alongside unworkable, as they would break each time the ground shifted. Owing to the steady flow of spoil from

120-530: The camps is about a one-day walk for the troops, which is almost 30 km (20 mi). Today's identified Roman camps are: Olfen , Xanten, Haltern, Oberaden, Holsterhausen, Anreppen and Beckinghausen. The Battle of the Lupia River was fought in 11 BCE between Nero Claudius Drusus and the Sicambri (Sugambri). Today, the river appears as a two-tier water course: Upstream, eastward of the city of Hamm,

140-514: The catchment is more rural. Downstream of Hamm settlements and industrial impacts characterize the situation. Though the Lippe was partly navigable from 1820 on it was not sufficient for the transport of industrial goods. Historically, the preconditions for a change of the landscape started with the construction of the Cologne-Minden trunk line in the 1840s that connected the river Rhine settlements like Cologne with harbours and trade at

160-579: The decades. Environmental standards on national level and especially from the EU have been leading to enormous efforts to improve the natural standards and today a couple of positive developments can be stated, like new FFH (Flora Fauna Habitat) sites and governmental initiatives around the WFD (Water Framework Directive). The main tributaries of the Lippe are (from source to mouth): Emscher The Emscher ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛmʃɐ] )

180-401: The district's name, does not flow through Lippe, but has its headwaters right across the district line in Bad Lippspringe , Kreis Paderborn . The small territories of Lippstadt , Lipperode, and Cappel that belonged to Lippe until the mid 19th century, do lie in the valley of the river. The coat of arms shows the traditional symbol of the state of Lippe, the rose, as the district covers nearly

200-426: The mining industry it has been impossible for the route of the Emscher to be maintained and its mouth into the Rhine has shifted north twice. A large wastewater treatment plant at its mouth treats the water of the Emscher before it flows into the Rhine. Since the early 1990s, efforts to restore the Emscher to its natural state have been making headway. The last coal mine ( Bergwerk Prosper-Haniel  [ de ] )

220-415: The past it was known as a meal for poor people. The main ingredients are potatoes, flour and raisins. Lippe (river) The Lippe ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɪpə] ) is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It is a right tributary of the Rhine and 220.3 km (136.9 mi) in length with an elevation difference of 125 metres and a catchment area of 4.890 km². The source

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240-482: The river Weser and so with the Lippe town Hamm , too. Moreover, this railway supported the coal and steel industry development in the northern Ruhr region. The hard coal mining that started in the middle of the 19th century in the Emscher catchment area developed in the following decades direction north and so to the Lippe catchment area. From the 1860s onwards the first problems of mining subsidence and drainage of polluted water appeared. The historical city of Hamm and

260-456: The same area as the historic country. In the middle of the rose 16 stamens symbolize the 16 cities and municipalities of the district. The coat of arms was granted in 1973. Despite the relatively small size of Lippe, the Lippish rose is also one of only three symbols included in the coat of arms of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The most famous dish served in Lippe is the pickert . In

280-563: The towns Lünen , Haltern and Dorsten were small settlements located at the Lippe but expanded with the establishment of hard coal mines starting around 1900. The industrialization caused huge water quality problems in the Lippe tributaries and the Lippe itself; therefore first in 1913 the Sesekegenossenschaft and later in 1926 the Lippeverband (“Wasserwirtschaftsverbände”) were established as water boards. Since 1914

300-526: The two districts Lemgo and Detmold were merged to the district Lippe. The Lippe district covers the northern part of the Teutoburg Forest , which also contain the highest elevation of the district, the 496 meter high Köterberg near Lügde . The lowest elevation is at the Weser river with 45.5 m. The main river is the Werre , and at the northern border of the district the Weser . The Lippe River , which shares

320-771: The two lines of the House of Lippe fought over the regency for over a decade. The last prince of Lippe was forced to abdicate during the November Revolution of 1918 following the Collapse of the Imperial German Army , whilst Germany as a whole became the Weimar Republic . The district became a Freistaat one of the constituent parts of the new republic. In 1932 the Free State of Lippe

340-461: Was a gateway to Germania, running from the river Rhine to the region around Paderborn. The watercourse was used for transport of supplies, so along the banks of the Lippe many former Roman camps could be found. In the last 200 years many of these camps have been identified, above all the camp in Haltern which is likely to be the former headquarter of the imperial prince Tiberius. The distance between

360-512: Was closed in December 2018. Now that coal mining near the route of the river has halted, a large underground pipe is being built along the path of the river. The first stretch of the river to be restored is that in the city of Dortmund . The overall project is headed by the public water board Emschergenossenschaft . The main work was completed at the end of August 2022, with a budget of 5.5 billion euros. The Emscher renaturation project, which

380-535: Was in 1123; it grew in power slowly in the following centuries. In 1528 it became a county, in 1789 it was elevated to a principality. Unlike many other countries of the Holy Roman Empire in the area, Lippe kept its independence in the Napoleonic era, and thus wasn't incorporated into Prussia afterwards. It was one of the smaller member states of the German empire. After the death of Prince Woldemar in 1895,

400-485: Was subdivided into two districts, Detmold and Lemgo. These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ; in 1949 this change was approved by the parliament. In 1969/70 the 168 cities and municipalities were merged to 16; and as the second part of the administrative reform in 1973

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