Dance, live band and beat music

The Oberbauerschaft hobby historian and genealogist Christine Honermeyer reported that Willy Sölter (1886-1958) came to Oberbauerschaft with his sister and parents in 1909 and bought the restaurant. At this point it had already stood on the crest of the Wiehengebirge between Oberbauerschaft and Lübbecke for 54 years. The inn was founded in 1855 by Heinrich Mescher from Halle/Westphalia. In honor of the District Administrator von der Horst, who had approved the liquor license, Mescher named his excursion restaurant Horstshöhe.

In 2009, exactly 100 years after Willy Sölter bought the restaurant, Berni Wessel and Karl-Friedrich Becker came up with the idea of ​​organizing a “Sölter meeting” and invited people to do so. “It’s already our eleventh meeting, because our meetings could also take place in the past two years,” reports Berni Wessel.

Willy Sölter’s grandson practically grew up in the restaurant

And this time two new couples could be welcomed. “That happened last year at the jubilee confirmations,” says Berni. There was particular joy that Peter Sölter and his wife Helga also took part in the meeting and had traveled from the Ruhr area for this purpose.

Peter Sölter, Willy Sölter’s grandson, practically grew up in the restaurant that his mother Ida ran together with her sister Anneliese. So it wasn’t surprising when he suddenly pulled a stack of old postcards out of his shirt pocket and handed them out to the Sölter friends. “This postcard is from 1962,” he reported. There are four small pictures on the map. Two show the outdoor area of ​​the restaurant and one shows the hall in which a lot took place. The fourth picture shows federal highway 239, which was then expanded. Therefore, the restaurant was demolished in 1976. But as you can see, the memories live on to this day.

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