Epe is a village in the district of Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

In 1188 the village Epe was mentioned for the first time in the list of goods of Count Dale zu Diepenheim (today in the Rijksarchief Utrecht).

It was in the possession of the lords of Keppel zu Nienborg, who had the patronage right over the parish for a long time.

Ten years later Herr von Plettenberg expanded and embellished Epe.

In 1806 Epe came to the Grand Duchy of Berg under Napoleon I's brother-in-law Murat and in 1811 fell to the Empire of France.

As a result of the wars of liberation and the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna, Epe became Prussian in 1815.

The ‘Germania Epe’ cotton spinning mill was founded in 1897 by the Jannink family from Enschede NL.

After the First World War, Germania issued a 25 pfennig small change replacement stamp as emergency money.

In the night from 9 to 10 November 1938, also called Reichskristallnacht or Reichspogromnacht, the synagogue Wilhelmstraße was desecrated and set on fire.

Finally all Jews from Epe (the families Pagener, Eichenwald, Lebenstein, de Witte, Rothschild, Andriesse) were deported to the extermination camps.

In 2008 and 2009, memorial stumbling blocks were laid in Oststraße and Merschstraße to commemorate the Jews who once lived and were deported there.

The "Förderkreis Alte Synagoge Epe e. V.", founded in 2017, has set itself the goal of transforming the empty synagogue building into a place of remembrance and learning.

The salt caverns of Epe are located southwest of the village in the Kottigerhook and in the Amtsvenn area.

Other companies that store gas are Trianel (since 2008), Nuon (Vattenfall NL, since 2007), KGE and Eneco (since 2011).