1674 - County Lingen 28 years in Protestant possession. Proclamations of the government take place from the minister in the church or Sundays after the church from the teacher. Large unemployment, many go to Holland as seasonal workers to the peat stinging and Maehen abroad. New strict customs are introduced. Traditional customs such as contactor celebrations, Oster and Martinsfeuer, house elevations, setting up May trees are forbidden.
Forests become wide abgeholze.
To the Aufforsten the property owners saving hurry are slammed shut. Premiums for cultivation of living hedges and promotion of the beekeeping. 6 jetzt auch Kaufmann C C Meier builds Dorfstr in Brochterbeck house upper village 39, today. The Teutoburger forest railway takes up the operation. The office Brochterbeck, which had formed a common office district with Ladbergen, is resolved.