Rheda () is a town in

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, a part of the municipality of

Rheda-Wiedenbrück Rheda-Wiedenbrück (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Raie-Wienbrügge'') is a city in the Gütersloh (district), district of Gütersloh, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography The twin community lies within the valley of the river E ...

in the '' Kreis'' of

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe and the administrative region of Detmold (administrative region), Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a Gütersloh (distric ...

History

Rheda was first mentioned in documents from the year 1085, at the latest 1088. Rheda Castle was, from 1170 until 1807 or 1815, the

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of the Manor of Rheda. The Lordship was created from the ''Freigericht'' (free court or free jurisdiction) of Rheda and the '' Vögterei'' (stewardship) over the abbeys of Liesborn and

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. On the death of the first Lord, Widukind of Rheda, in the

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, the lordship was inherited by Bernhard II, Lord of Lippe. Bernhard's successor, Hermann II, moved the seat of his lordship to Rheda Castle. On the death of Bernhard V without an heir in 1364, the Lordship of Rheda was seized by Bernhard's son-in-law, Otto V, Count of Tecklenburg, unlike the rest of the Lippian inheritance, which passed to Simon III, brother of Bernhard V; Simon III van Lippe on the

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130 years later, Tecklenburg reimbursed Lippe for this annexation with a payment of 7200

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(). From the Tecklenburger annexation, the lordship followed the path of that county. In the course of the

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, the territory was annexed to the Napoleonic satellite

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and was awarded to the

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by the

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, becoming part of the Prussian

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, where it remained beyond the

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until the reorganisation of Germany under the Allied Occupation powers, when it became a part of the newly created

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