Editing Lemgo (section)

==History==
It was founded 1190 by [[Bernard II, Lord of Lippe]] at the crossroad of two merchant routes. Therefore it is the oldest town in the [[Lippe]] district. 

Lemgo was a member of the [[Hanseatic League]], a medieval trading association of free or autonomous cities in several northern European countries such as the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. During the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] the city of Lemgo adopted [[Lutheranism]] in 1522, whereas otherwise in [[County of Lippe|Lippe]], its spread was hampered until 1533 by the opposition of the then Catholic ruling Counts of Lippe.

In 1605 [[Simon VI, Count of Lippe]] adopted Calvinism and demanded the conversion of Lemgo's citizens too using his monarchic privilege of [[cuius regio, eius religio]]. This led to a dispute with Lemgo. The city defied the edict to convert to Calvinism, leading to the ''Revolt of Lemgo''.  This religious dispute was resolved by the Peace of Röhrentrup in 1617, granting Lemgo the right to determine its faith independently. During the 30 Years War, on 15 October 1638, it was put under siege by a combined army of Palatine and Swedish troops, but it was soon lifted upon the approach of a hostile army. Two days later, the [[Battle of Vlotho]] occurred, about 11 miles from Lemgo. Lippe's Lutheran minority, mostly domiciled in Lemgo, only joined the else [[Continental Reformed church|Reformed]] [[Church of Lippe]] in 1882, however, retaining its [[Confession of Augsburg]] with the Lutheran congregations forming a separate [[Classis (ecclesiastical)|classis]] within the Lippe church since 1888.
[[File:Ispin2022.jpg|thumb|The new central place of the Innovation Campus Lemgo (Dec. 2022)]]
[[File:Mittelstr03.jpg|thumb|right|Lemgo downtown]]

===British Army===
From 1947 until 1993, Lemgo hosted successive infantry battalions of the British Army, the last one being the [[Royal Irish Regiment (formed 1992)|Royal Irish Regiment]].

The battalions were based in Stornoway Barracks, known to the locals as Spiegelberg Kaserne. The base was previously the location of a [[displaced persons camp]] and before that a [[Wehrmacht]] artillery unit.

At the end of World War II, Canadian Section GHQ, 2nd Echelon, HQ 21 Army Group, occupied Spiegelberg Kaserne. After this headquarters moved to Oldenburg the site was taken over by the British Army.