Elspe (Lennestadt)

As a young farm boy saw a rat on his floor he started shooting at it with his rifle.

The reconstruction of Elspe After the fire, people were planning to rebuild the town.

The towns leaders made a few changes, First they said they would build the houses further apart, making it harder for the flames to spread.

A lot of changes were also made to roads and houses, such as the Heiden street lying next to the Church walls being widened, The entrance between Bertels and Strucks was widened, and a new street was built under the church walls.

In the spring of 2011, Elspe achieved that next to offices there was a walkway from the Church down to the town square.