The occasion for publishing this 350-page volume is the 50th anniversary on the 1st of January
2023 of the governmental reorganisation of North Rhine-Westphalia through which the
municipality of Blasheim after centuries of belonging to Preußisch Oldendorf became a part of
the city of Lübbecke. The author does not present a linear chronicle of Blasheim [first named
in written sources in 969 A.D.] and the hamlets of Obermehnen and Stockhausen but instead
highlights selected aspects which have hitherto not been written about or only briefly
mentioned. Examples include 19th century alcohol misuse the cantor and school reformer
Schrader the secession of the Selbststandige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche [Autonomus
Evangelical-Lutheran Church] from the Prussian Union of Churches the conflict between the
NSDAP and Pastor Blankenstein and Denazification.
