page_title: Voxtrup
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Voxtrup / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Voxtrup: megalithic chambered tomb "Devil's Stones" Deutsch: Voxtrup: jungsteinzeitliches Großsteingrab "Teufelsteine"
context_page_description: Voxtrup is a district in the south-east of Osnabrück, Germany, with a population of roughly 7,000 residents. It is home to the Evangelical Margaretenkirche and the Catholic St. Antonius Kirche.
context_section_description: Voxtrup was first mentioned in records in 1088; however the earliest record only survives in the form of a transcription from the 14th century. It contains a legal notice stipulating that a nobleman named Eberhard was to transfer possession of an estate in Bevern to bishop Benno II in return for a payment of three pounds; its land would become part of the grounds of the Iburg monastery. The transaction was ultimately completed after the death of Benno, under his successor, Bishop Markwart. The case was heard at a place named “Vockestorp”. The court in Voccastorp (as it was named in a record dated 1090) was presumably located on the Mahlbrink around the area of the Gelshorn estate (today the Waldhof estate). Today’s Voxtrup finds its origins in the farming settlements of Molenseten, Düstrup, Hickingen and a settlement with the same name. In a record from 1147 the four settlements were named as a coherent body. It is almost certain that Voxtrup, Düstrup and Hickingen predate their first written records. Settlements are strongly believed to have existed in these areas in prehistoric times. The first estates in the farming settlements of Düstrup, Voxtrup and Hickingen had probably existed long before the Saxon-Westphalian regions were incorporated into the Frankish empire towards the end of the 8th century. Voxtrup is believed to have been named after the Fokko family. The district was originally home to three (or possibly five) separate estates: Arling, Hüdepohl, Werries, Brockmann and Strickmann.
  Voxtrup was incorporated into Osnabrück on 1 July 1972. The northernmost part of the district used to lie within the former boundaries of Schinkel; this also used to be the location of the Lüstringen district railway station (until 1978), which was situated on the Osnabrück-Hannover line.
caption: Voxtrup, Teufelssteine (Devil’s Stones) – part of the Route of Megalithic Culture
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