Lage - Markt

Lage is a city about 8kms apart from larger Detmold the capital of the Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then capital of the Free State of Lippe until 1947 when Lippe was incorporated into the new German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Actually, Lage is much older than Detmold. Already around 900 a parish church "St. Johann" existed. In 1274, Lage is mentioned in a document for the life annuity of the local clergy by the sentence "Jordanus plebanis in Lagis".

Most of the houses facing the market are not surprising, but this one in the moderstistic style of the late 1920s is.