# Paderborn

Paderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

## Understand

* 51.717478.7523821 Tourist information, Marienplatz 2a, ☏ +49 52 51 88 29 90.

## Get in
### By car

Paderborn is on the Autobahn A33.

### By plane

* 51.6152788.6172221 Paderborn/Lippstadt airport (located about 15 km south-west of Paderborn). There are regular connections with Munich as well as seasonal/charter flights to holiday destinations around the Mediterranean Sea and on the Canary Islands. There is an express bus every hour between the airport and the Paderborn bus terminal.

### By train

* 51.7130568.7405562 Paderborn main station (Paderborn Hauptbahnhof). served several times a day by intercity trains between Düsseldorf and Weimar

## Get around

Foot, bus or bicycle

## See

* 51.718968.7558251 Dom (Cathedral), Domplatz. 11th -16th century
* Rathaus (City Hall).
* Adam-und-Eva-Haus (Adam and Eve House), Hathumarstraße 7.
* Paderquellgebiet (Pader Headwaters). An area of more than 200 springs, the source of the Pader river, the shortest river in Germany.
* 51.732318.7365762 Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), Fürstenallee 7. The world's largest computer museum.
* 51.7450988.7125013 Schloss Neuhaus, Schloßstraße 10, ☏ +49 5254 80192.

## Do

* 51.7396758.7346981 PaderKletter Park, Dubelohstraße 100. climb trees next to a pond, where you can also hire rowing boats
* Guided Segway tours. Ask at tourist information
* Water skiing, at the Nesthauser See in Sande (some kilometers northwest).
* Flugplatz Haxterhöhe (on a hill south of the city). Take a guest flight in a glider
* Football: SC Paderborn 07 play soccer in 2. Bundesliga, Germany's second tier. Their home ground is the Benteler-Arena, capacity 15,000, two km northwest of city centre on Paderborner Strasse near the autobahn junction.

### Events

* Libori - the annual fair in the city center (1 week)
* Frühlingsfest - annual spring party with live music
* Herbstlibori - as above, but smaller
* Paderhalle. Concerts
* Kulturwerkstatt. Concerts

## Buy

Great downtown area. Libori Galeri and Suedring are local shopping locations. Check out the street "Die Grube" between Cathedral and "Kamp".

## Eat

Sunday Brunch is a must while in Germany. There are plenty of restaurants along Kamp within which one may find time well spent.
* 51.7168618.7573171 Alex, Kamp 30.
* 51.718248.750962 La petite Galerie (Galerie-Hotel), Bachstr. 1, ☏ +49 5251 12240, info@galerie-hotel.de. 08:00-24:00. Very cosy inside, great places outside, very delicious food with many organic ingredients. Breakfast, lunch, tea and self-made pies, dinner. 8-24€. (updated Sep 2023)

## Drink

Paderborner Beer.
* Sappho. bar and discotheque with alternative music. The Gyros with mayonnaise just next to the entry is a good fatty basis for a night.
* Limericks. Afterwards (in the morning) a visit to nearby is obligatory.
* Paderschänke. Tapas bar that offers Spanish ambience, snacks and wine.
* Biergarten on Mühlenstraße. is the biggest one in Paderborn.
* Alles Ist Gut. probably the smallest.

## Sleep

* 51.7182358.7476621 Arosa Hotel (Best Western).
* 51.7239078.7432622 Welcome Hotel, Fürstenweg 13.
* 51.7219648.7585023 In Via Gästehaus, Giersmauer 35.
* 51.7229748.7565924 Youth hostel, Meinwerkstraße 16.
* 51.7628638.6882655 Lippesee Camping, Hermann-Löns-Straße 165.
* Camping north of Sennelager.
* 51.718248.750966 Galerie-Hotel, Bachstr. 1, 33098 Paderborn, ☏ +49 5251 12240, info@galerie-hotel.de. Very cosy hotel in one of the oldest buildings of Paderborn. 80€. (updated Sep 2023)

## Nearby

* Kaiser-Karls-Park, Bad-Lippspringe (10 km north of Paderborn). Neatly trimmed spa gardens.
* Gräflicher Park (Earl's park), Bad Driburg (24 km east of Paderborn, 22 minutes by train).
* Wewelsburg, Büren (16 km south of Paderborn). Triangular-shaped, early 17th-century Renaissance castle built for the prince-bishops of Paderborn. During the Nazi era it was chosen as an SS cult-site and redesigned after Heinrich Himmler's fancy.

## Go next

* Bielefeld
* Kassel
* Detmold
* Rheda-Wiedenbrück
* Lippstadt