One day in Paderborn!🇩🇪
Paderborn 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 the source of a river. The river Pader originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral, where St. Liborius is buried.
What to see in one day in Paderborn?
•Paderborn Cathedral is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn. It is located in the city centre of Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Mary, Saint Kilian and Saint Liborius. The official German name is Hoher Dom Ss. Maria, Liborius und Kilian.
•The LWL Museum in the Imperial Palace is located in the East Westphalian city of Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral. It presents finds from Carolingian, Ottonian and Saxon times. It is located on the spot where the foundations of the Palatinate Paderborn from the 8th century and a later complex from the time of Henry II were found during construction work in 1964. They are part of today's building fabric and can still be seen very well in the masonry of the museum. In 1964, Charlemagne's imperial palace was found right next to today's museum. The outline of this complex can now only be seen through the reconstructed foundation walls. The regional association of Westphalia-Lippe is responsible for the state museum. The building is owned by the metropolitan chapter and is leased rent-free to the museum's sponsor.
•The Archbishop's Diocesan Museum Paderborn is the oldest diocesan museum in German-speaking countries. It was founded in 1853 and has one of the largest and most important collections of Christian art in Germany. The constantly growing inventory includes more than 12,000 works from around 1,000 years. Focus: sculpture and goldsmith art from the Romanesque to the Baroque. The museum regularly shows major art and cultural history special exhibitions with loans from renowned museums and collections throughout Europe and overseas.
•The former Jesuit and university church, Sankt Franz Xaver, also known as the "Market Church", is located in the center of Paderborn, near the town hall square and right next to the Theodorianum Gymnasium, which uses the church for Catholic school services on Thursdays. In addition, the Marktkirche is the parish church of the Paderborn inner-city parish "Sankt Liborius", founded in 1998, next to the Gaukirche zum Sankt Ulrich and the Busdorfkirche "Saint Petrus and Andreas".
•The Altenbeken Viaduct is a 482 metres (1,581 ft) long and up to 35 metres (115 ft) high double track limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Beke valley, west of the town of Altenbeken, in the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
•Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The castle has a triangular layout, with three round towers connected by massive walls. After 1934 it was used by the SS under Heinrich Himmler, and was to be expanded into a complex which would serve as the central SS cult-site.
•Neuhaus Castle in Paderborn's Neuhaus district, named after him, is an important building of the Weser Renaissance. It is in an island-like location at the confluence of the Lippe, Alme and Pader rivers in the southeast corner of the Westphalian Bay.
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