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39-458: Lippstadt is situated in the Lippe valley, roughly 70 kilometres east of Dortmund and roughly 30 kilometres west of Paderborn . The historic town centre is situated between several branches of the river Lippe. Lippstadt consists of 18 districts: Lippstadt was founded in 1168 by Bernhard II zur Lippe. In the early 13th century Lippstadt, with a population of 2700, had four parish churches. There

78-587: A Prince of the Empire in 1100. The bishop had several large buildings built, and the area became a place for the emperors to stay. The city was taken by Prussia in 1802, then by the French vassal state Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 and then returned to Prussia. Native Friedrich Sertürner , a pharmacist's apprentice in Paderborn, was the first to isolate morphine from opium in 1804. In 1914

117-572: A bus network providing transportation between cities, has individual timetables and destinations. The regular service Region-buses (S60, R61-64, R66, R73, 70 and 80.1) covers Beakum, Rheda-Wiedenbrück and Rietberg. In addition, there is the Schnellbus from Lippstadt passing through Erwitte to Warstein every hour. On the weekend, there are a few buses in the evening so passengers have to use Nachtbusse or Anrufsammeltaxis which passengers have to call before travelling. The nearest airport from Lippstadt

156-624: Is Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport . The airport is located in Büren-Ahden. They do not have direct public transport from Lippstadt to the airport. However, passengers can catch the RE1 train to Paderborn Hbf and then go to the terminal by Schnellbus S60 from Paderborn Hbf. Lippstadt is twinned with: Lippe (river) The Lippe ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɪpə] ) is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It

195-825: Is a bus system served by the PaderSprinter for local buses and the Bahnbus Hochstift for regional buses. Paderborn was once the oldest academic site in Westphalia. In 1614, the University of Paderborn was founded by the Jesuits but was closed in 1819. It was re-founded in 1972 as Universität-Gesamthochschule and transformed into a university in its own right in 2002. Today, it is attended by about 20,000 students. There also are several theological and private academic institutes in Paderborn. There are

234-619: Is a regular stop for the InterCity on the Hamm–Warburg line and several local trains. The Paderborn Lippstadt Airport connects Paderborn to the bigger German airports and offers flights to many locations in Europe. There is a bus shuttle between the airport and the Paderborn main train station. General Aviation and gliders are based at Paderborn-Haxterberg ( ICAO : EDLR ) (site of the world gliding championships in 1981). In Paderborn there

273-684: Is a right tributary of the Rhine and 220.3 km (136.9 mi) in length with an elevation difference of 125 metres and a catchment area of 4.890 km². The source is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bad Lippspringe close to the city of Paderborn . It runs westward through Paderborn, Lippstadt and then along the northern edge of the Ruhr area , parallel to the river Emscher and river Ruhr . The river finally enters

312-596: Is also home to a factory of large-diameter antifriction bearings, seamless-rolled rings manufacturer Rothe Erde . The important road to get to Lippstadt is the Bundesstraße 55. This street goes from north to south of the city. At north, Lippstadt connects with Rheda-Wiedenbrück and the Autobahn 2 (Dortmund-Hannover). Southwards it connects with the Bundesstraße 1 and the Autobahn 44 (Dortmund-Kassel) by passing through

351-463: Is now known as Diebold Nixdorf , which is still located in Paderborn, but Siemens retains a considerable presence in the city. Many other information technology companies as well as industrial enterprises are located in Paderborn, too: Paderborn is also home of the " Paderborner " brewery , which has belonged to the Warsteiner group since 1990. Paderborn has the largest computer museum in

390-601: The Archdiocese of Paderborn based in the city cathedral, Paderborn has traditionally been a conservative Catholic city. In the Bundestag , it is located in the eponymous electoral district , which is a safe seat for CDU. Only twice ( 1949 and 2021 ) has CDU not received a majority of the district's votes, and from 1953 to 1987 always received at least 60% of the district's vote. In the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia ,

429-714: The Bishopric of Paderborn the Lippian parishes of Cappel, Lipperode and Lippstadt, which had previously belonged to the Archbishopric of Cologne without producing any ensuing agreement with the state of Lippe . In 1851 the whole of Lippstadt, which up to then had been divided between the Kingdom of Prussia and Lippe, was added to the Prussian royal province of Westphalia . In 1944 a women's subcamp of Buchenwald

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468-522: The British armed forces live within Westfalen Garrison , but are not included in the nominal population size. 60% of the population are Catholics, 20% Lutherans and 20% members of other faiths or not religious. Paderborn is the headquarters of the former Nixdorf Computer AG , which was acquired by Siemens in the early 1990s and known as Siemens-Nixdorf for about ten years. The company

507-596: The Sennelager Training Area . On May 20, 2022, Paderborn was hit by a damaging tornado , leaving 38 injured & considerable damage along its path. Paderborn is situated at the source of the river Pader , approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Lippstadt and approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Bielefeld on the Pader. The hills of the Eggegebirge are located east of

546-528: The Sicambri (Sugambri). Today, the river appears as a two-tier water course: Upstream, eastward of the city of Hamm, the catchment is more rural. Downstream of Hamm settlements and industrial impacts characterize the situation. Though the Lippe was partly navigable from 1820 on it was not sufficient for the transport of industrial goods. Historically, the preconditions for a change of the landscape started with

585-589: The Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle . Until the 1970s water pollution played no important role in the public debate but the environmental policy changed over the decades. Environmental standards on national level and especially from the EU have been leading to enormous efforts to improve the natural standards and today a couple of positive developments can be stated, like new FFH (Flora Fauna Habitat) sites and governmental initiatives around

624-473: The 07 remembering the link with SV 07 Neuhaus. The Neuhaus club was founded in 1907 as SV 07 Neuhaus which was joined by the local side TuS 1910 Sennelager to become TuS Schloss Neuhaus in 1970. The Neuhaus and Paderborn teams played as tier III sides for most of their histories, as has the unified club. Today Paderborn plays its home matches at the Benteler Arena. In 2015 , SC Paderborn were promoted to

663-524: The Bundesliga for the first time. After their relegation in their first season, Paderborn returned to the Bundesliga in 2019 only to be relegated again. Currently (2022) they have achieved comfortable mid-table positions in the 2. Bundesliga. Paderborn is located at the Autobahn A 33 , which connects Paderborn to the Autobahn A 2 in the north and the Autobahn A 44 in the south. The main station

702-549: The Common Life there. In 1523 it formed a defensive alliance together with the neighbouring cities of Osnabrück , Dortmund , Soest and Münster . Augustinians studying at the University of Wittenberg brought Martin Luther's doctrine home with them. Thus in 1524 Lutheran doctrines were preached at Lippstadt by their prior Westermann, and the town was one of the first to embrace Lutheranism officially, though it resisted

741-799: The Lippe tributaries and the Lippe itself; therefore first in 1913 the Sesekegenossenschaft and later in 1926 the Lippeverband (“Wasserwirtschaftsverbände”) were established as water boards. Since 1914 the Datteln-Hamm Canal and 1930 the Wesel-Datteln Canal are located in parallel to the Lippe which is not navigable for mass transportation. The canals receive Lippe water or feed the Lippe (to improve dry weather flow) from an exchange facility in Hamm, operated by

780-734: The Paderborn Dolphins, has also enjoyed considerable success. In 2006 the Paderborn Baskets , the home basketball team of the city was promoted to the Bundesliga . In the past, the Paderborn Baskets played multiple seasons in the Basketball Bundesliga . They reached the playoffs in the 2008–09 season. Recently Rugby Club Paderborn e.V. have had a great run in Regionalliga NRW and are on

819-599: The Paderborn military camp was turned into a prisoner of war camp named Sennelager . In 1930, the See of Paderborn was promoted to archdiocese . During World War II , Paderborn was bombed by Allied aircraft in 1944 and 1945, resulting in 85% destruction, including many of the historic buildings. It was seized by the US 3rd Armored Division after a pitched battle 31 March – 1 April 1945, in which tanks and flamethrowers were used during combined mechanized-infantry assaults against

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858-576: The Rhine at Wesel . The river Lippe has been used as an infrastructure in Roman times. For the Romans the river (named Lupia ) was a gateway to Germania, running from the river Rhine to the region around Paderborn. The watercourse was used for transport of supplies, so along the banks of the Lippe many former Roman camps could be found. In the last 200 years many of these camps have been identified, above all

897-533: The WFD (Water Framework Directive). The main tributaries of the Lippe are (from source to mouth): Paderborn Paderborn ( German pronunciation: [paːdɐˈbɔʁn] ; Westphalian : Patterbuorn , also Paterboärn ) is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , capital of the Paderborn district . The name of the city derives from the river Pader and Born , an old German term for

936-528: The camp in Haltern which is likely to be the former headquarter of the imperial prince Tiberius. The distance between the camps is about a one-day walk for the troops, which is almost 30 km (20 mi). Today's identified Roman camps are: Olfen , Xanten, Haltern, Oberaden, Holsterhausen, Anreppen and Beckinghausen. The Battle of the Lupia River was fought in 11 BCE between Nero Claudius Drusus and

975-544: The city currently located in the district Paderborn II, which also has a strong CDU lean. At local level, the city has always elected CDU mayors since 1946. Until 2009, the CDU held an absolute majority on the city council, and as late as 1979 received over 60% of the vote in the city. The current mayor of Paderborn is Michael Dreier of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The most recent mayoral election

1014-482: The city's southwestern, southern and southeastern approaches. After the city was reconstructed in the 1940s and 1950s, Paderborn became a major industrial seat in Westphalia. The British Army retained a significant presence in the area until 2020, when British units were relocated back to the United Kingdom. Only a small training and enabling staff remain at Paderborn to facilitate temporary deployments to use

1053-487: The city. Paderborn is 104 kilometres (65 mi) east of Dortmund and the Ruhr region. To the north-west, Hannover is 115 kilometres (71 mi) away. The city of Paderborn consists of the following Stadtteile (city sections): Paderborn has a population of over 144,000, of which approximately 10% are students at the local university ( Paderborn University ) . Additionally, about 10,000 members or relatives of members of

1092-542: The construction of the Cologne-Minden trunk line in the 1840s that connected the river Rhine settlements like Cologne with harbours and trade at the river Weser and so with the Lippe town Hamm , too. Moreover, this railway supported the coal and steel industry development in the northern Ruhr region. The hard coal mining that started in the middle of the 19th century in the Emscher catchment area developed in

1131-433: The following decades direction north and so to the Lippe catchment area. From the 1860s onwards the first problems of mining subsidence and drainage of polluted water appeared. The historical city of Hamm and the towns Lünen , Haltern and Dorsten were small settlements located at the Lippe but expanded with the establishment of hard coal mines starting around 1900. The industrialization caused huge water quality problems in

1170-669: The rise of Calvinism in rural areas of Westphalia. Colonel Edward Morgan, ( c.  1616 – after 1665), a Royalist during English Civil War 1642–1649, was Captain General of the Kings (Charles I) forces in South Wales. After the King's arrest and execution, he fled to the continent, and married Anna Petronilla the daughter of Baron von Pöllnitz from Westphalia, Governor of Lippstadt. They had six children, two sons, and four daughters. He

1209-669: The source of a river. The river Pader originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral , where St. Liborius is buried. Paderborn ranks 55th on the List of cities in Germany by population . Paderborn was founded as a bishopric by Charlemagne in 795, although its official history began in 777 when Charlemagne built a castle near the Paderborn springs. In 799 Pope Leo III fled his enemies in Rome and reached Paderborn, where he met Charlemagne, and stayed there for three months. It

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1248-856: The town of Erwitte. The Lippstadt train station (Bahnhof Lippstadt) lies on the Hamm-Warburg railway . It has a railway service with ICE, IC and region train. Passengers can change direction with Kassel, Dresden, München and Düsseldorf networks. The bus system in Lippstadt is provided by Regionalverkehr Ruhr-Lippe (RLG). The system consists of 3 major types of bus networks. City-Bus Networks The city-bus networks in Lippstadt consist of five lines (C1-C5). The bus lines start every 30 minutes from Bustreff am Bahnhof and travel via five different routes to different destinations. The City-Bus Network does not provide coverage in some areas. However, passengers can use Region-Bus Networks instant. Region-Bus Networks,

1287-426: The verge of being promoted to the next league. SC Paderborn 07 is the most successful football club in Paderborn. They were promoted to the Bundesliga , Germany's top flight, in 2019 but were relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the same season . The club was formed out of the 1985 merger of FC Paderborn and TuS Schloß Neuhaus as TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus and took on its current, shorter name in 1997,

1326-882: The world, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum , opened in 1996. From 2001 to 2005, it hosted the RoboCup German Open  [ de ] . The town supports the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie for regular symphony concerts in the Paderhalle. The city is currently known for its exhibitions in three museums: the Kaiserpfalz , The Diocesan Museum and the Art Museum - Städtische Galerie. The city also has some natural tourist attractions within and around it. With

1365-518: Was an Augustinian abbey which had existed since 1281. From 1400, the enclave and town of Lippstadt were to be a condominium shared by the county of Lippe and the counts of Cleves-Mark, who were succeeded by the Hohenzollerns (Brandenburg/Prussia), a situation that endured until the middle of the 19th. century. Heinrich von Ahaus founded one of his communities for women of the Brethren of

1404-598: Was during this time that it was decided that Charlemagne would be crowned emperor. Charlemagne reinstated Leo in Rome in 800 and was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Leo in return. In 836, St. Liborius became the patron saint of Paderborn after his bones were moved there from Le Mans by Bishop Badurad. St. Liborius is commemorated in Paderborn every year in July with the Liborifest. The bishop of Paderborn , Meinwerk, became

1443-558: Was founded in Lippstadt. It was also the site of a displaced persons camp in the years following World War II . On 1 April 1945 the US 2nd Armored Division made contact with the 3rd Armored Division at Lippstadt, effecting junction of the US Ninth Army with the US First Army, and seized the city from scattered resistance. Lippstadt serves as headquarters of international automotive supplier's Hella and HBPO Group. It

1482-583: Was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: The Paderborn city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: Paderborn is twinned with: Paderborn is nationally known as a center for American Sports. The local baseball team, the Paderborn Untouchables , has won many German championships. The local American Football team,

1521-458: Was later appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica 1664–65. His nephew Henry Morgan left his Jamaican property to his godsons Charles Byndloss (b.1668) and Henry Archbold on condition they adopted the surname of Morgan. These were the children of his two cousins Anna Petronilla Byndloss (née Morgan), and Johanna Archbold (née Morgan). In 1821 the Papal Bull "De salute animarum", made over to

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