Hille is a community in the Kreis Minden-Lübbecke in the north of East Westphalia, Germany, with approximately 16,000 inhabitants.

The southern portion of the community is located in the transition zone from the North Germain Plain to the Central Uplands (piedmont).

The main part of the northerly bench of the community is clearly a component of the plain, which received its endmoraine character from the Ice Age.

The Great Peatbog (Grosses Torfmoor) provides Hille with a wet ecosystem of glacial origin which has been a designated nature reserve since 1980.

Extensive wet bogs were created in this historic river valley, that remained impassable for humans for a long time.

As a result, there is fertile soil in the south between the Wiehengebirge and the Bastau lowland, which is referred to as Lübbecke Loessland.

Hille is classified as a "large rural community" that lies in the North German Plain, it rises to the ridge of the Wiehengebirge in the south.

Around the middle of the 19th century, the transportation infrastructure became significantly enhanced by road construction under the leadership of Carl von Schlotheim who was Land Councilor in the Prussian Kreis Minden.

The so-called "Wallücker Willem" connected the quarry mine near Wallücke in the Wiehengebirge with Löhne and Kirchlengern to the south.

The numbers cover the time to 1970 and for 1987 for census results [6][7][8] and since 1975 for official projections made by the Statistic Bureau of the State of North Rhine- Westfalia.

The acceptance of the refugees of World War II resulted in the formation of Catholic parishes, which is slowly changing the milieu to one of multiple beliefs.

In the 2004 Community election, Reinhard Jasper was re-elected on the first ballot against the First Councilmember Klaus-Herman Pörtner (SPD) with 53.88% of the vote.

Description of the Banner Red and white horizontally striped with the coat of arms extending from the middle to the top.

The windmill in Eickhorst is known as the Stork Mill and is operated by a group that conducts an open house every 3rd or 4th Saturday during the season.

There is no dedicated theater building in this rural community, but performances are presented intermittently in the assembly hall of the Combined School (Verbundschule) in the village of Hille.

The old distillery building in the village of Hille is no longer functional but provides an exhibit of the distillation process of "Hiller Moorbrand" a schnaps based liquor.

A tombstone from the 16th century was located on the outer wall, shows Conrad von Aswede who was Canon in Minden.

The neighboring clubs TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke and Grün-Weiß Dankersen Minden play in the German major league, the Handball-Bundesliga.

The renowned handball-players Dieter Waltke und Frank von Behren come from Hille and participated on the German national team.

The youth wind or brass orchestra performs during alternating years in the large spa park in Rothenuffeln to initiate its great light show.

This national connector road was of more significance in the past; a part of its former mission has been superseded by the A 30 Autobahn located on the south side of the Wiehengebirge.

The individual villages are connected by regional and on-call buses with Minden, Lübbecke, Espelkamp and Bad Oeynhausen.

Long distance bicycle trails like the Bremen–Bad Oeynhausen route, Mühlenroute und Wellness-Radroute traverse the community.

The forests provided raw material for furniture manufacture, which however did not become as specialized locally as did the kitchen furnishing industry in the Ravensberg countryside.

The poor economic conditions in the post World War era caused many job searchers to travel to the Volkswagen works in Hannover.

The UPHOFF Schlosserei GmbH is involved in steel construction and machine manufacture with 20 workers in Hille.

The WDR TV and radio studio in Bielefeld produces programs focused on East Westfalia (Ostwestfalen).

The voluntary fire fighting brigade for Hille consists of 9 independent pump groups, which are located in the 9 villages of the community.

The subsequent ongoing decline in the birth rate no longer allowed the continuation of the system and led to consolidation.

An extension of the Volkshochschule (public high school) Minden is located in the Hille community administration building in Hartum.