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23 unusual facts about Lippstadt


Bernard III, Lord of Lippe

He had a dispute with the city of Lippstadt, because it would not allow him to build a castle.

Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe

In 1444, Bernard VII concluded a treaty with Duke Adolph I of Cleves-Mark, in which he ceded to Adolph a 50% share in the city of Lippstadt, which had been mortgated to Cleves.

Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst

Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (26 October 1825, Lippstadt, Westphalia - 17 March 1895) was a Prussian parliamentarian for the Centre Party.

Cosmo Klein

Cosmo Klein (born Marcus Klein on November 1, 1978 in Lippstadt) is a German singer and songwriter.

Delphin Strungk

These have been published in Die Orgel, II/12 (Lippstadt, 1960); Alte Meister des Orgelspiels, ed.

Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel

Winkel was born in Lippstadt,1777, settled in Amsterdam shortly after 1800, and in 1814, while experimenting with pendulums, he discovered that a pendulum weighted on both sides of the pivot could beat steady time, even for the slow tempos often used in European classical music.

Erich Raeder resignation and later

After his release he settled down at the Uhlandstrasse in Lippstadt, Westphalia.

Franz Stock

He was then ordained to the priesthood on 12 March 1932 by the Archbishop of Paderborn, Kaspar Klein, and from 1932 to 1934 had his first appointment as priest in Effeln, near Lippstadt, and in Dortmund-Eving.

Heinrich von Ahaus

Heinrich also founded houses of the congregation at Cologne (1416), Wesel (1435) and Osnabrück, and the communities of sisters at Borken, Coesfeld, Lippstadt, Wesel and Bodeken, labouring all the while in the face of continuous opposition from both priests and laymen.

Herman II, Lord of Lippe

Herman II, Lord of Lippe (1175 in Lippe (now called Lippstadt) – 25 April 1229) was a ruling Lord of Lippe.

International Business School, Germany

The International Business School (IBS) is a private institution of higher education with campuses in Nuremberg and Lippstadt (Germany).

Lippstadt Airfield

Lippstadt Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany, located in the southeast part of Lippstadt (Nordrhein-Westfalen); approximately 222 miles west-southwest of Berlin.

Maia Chiburdanidze

She was 1st in tournaments in New Delhi (1984) and Banja Luka (1985) and in the next decade she finished 1st in Belgrade (1992), Vienna (1993) and in Lippstadt (1995).

Margit Wennmachers

Born and raised in Germany, Wennmachers earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Lippstadt, Germany.

Michael Rummenigge

Michael Rummenigge (born 3 February 1964 in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former German football player.

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The Royal Westphalian Railway was initially established only to fill the 32 km-long gap between Hamm and Lippstadt, connecting the Münster–Hamm line of the Munster–Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1848 with the line being constructed at the same time by the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (Köln-Minden-Thüringischen-Verbindungs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KMTVEG).

Rudolph Blankenburg

Blankenburg was born in Hillentrup (now a district of Dörentrup), Lippe-Detmold (now Lippstadt), Germany, and educated there.

Simon III, Lord of Lippe

In the ancestral lands around the cities of Lippstadt and Rheda, however, the situation was complicated, because after the death of his uncle Bernard V, around 1365, his widow Richarda had initially given his part of Lippe to Count Otto VI of Tecklenburg, who was the husband of her eldest daughter.

SV Lippstadt 08

SV Lippstadt is a German association football club from the city of Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tredegar House

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, 20 miles east of Dortmund in Germany).

Ulrike Deppe

Ulrike Deppe (December 9, 1953 in Lippstadt) is a former West German slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Wadersloh

It is situated approximately 10 km north-west of Lippstadt and 30 km east of Hamm.

Warendorf Railway

The line is a section of the former Münster–Rheda–Lippstadt railway and is now operated as part of Deutsche Bahn’s Münster-Ostwestfalen regional network, based in Münster.


Neubeckum station

The line is still used for the operation of steam-hauled museum trains from Münster via Neubeckum to Lippstadt, Erwitte, Anröchte and Warstein.