Editing Minden-Lübbecke (section)

==History==
Minden-Lübbecke is roughly identical with the medieval [[Bishopric of Minden]]. At its biggest extent in the 13th century, it later lost territory until it came finally to be around the size of today's district. In the 17th century the principality came into the possession of [[Brandenburg]] and thus [[Prussia]]. Lost for a time to [[Napoleon]]ic France, it came back to Prussia in 1813, and was then part of the [[Province of Westphalia]]. In 1816 the districts of Minden and Rahden were created, but in 1832 the Rahden district was merged with parts of the abolished Bünde district, and the administrative seat of the new district was [[Lübbecke]]. The district within today's borders was created in 1973 when the two districts of Minden and Lübbecke were merged.