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Horn-Bad Meinberg

Horn-Bad Meinberg
The Town Hall of Horn-Bad Meinberg.
The Town Hall of Horn-Bad Meinberg.
Coat of arms of Horn-Bad Meinberg
Coat of arms
Horn-Bad Meinberg   is located in Germany
Horn-Bad Meinberg
Horn-Bad Meinberg
Coordinates: 51°53′0″N 8°58′0″E / 51.88333°N 8.96667°E / 51.88333; 8.96667Coordinates: 51°53′0″N 8°58′0″E / 51.88333°N 8.96667°E / 51.88333; 8.96667
Country Germany
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region Detmold
District Lippe
Government
 • Mayor Eberhard Block
Area
 • Total 90.15 km2 (34.81 sq mi)
Elevation 207 m (679 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 17,126
 • Density 190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 32805
Dialling codes 05234
Vehicle registration LIP
Website www.horn-badmeinberg.de

Horn-Bad Meinberg (Low German: Häoern-Möomag ) is a German city in the Principality of Lippe in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of the Teutoburg forest. The district Bad Meinberg is a spa resort. It has 17,185 inhabitants (2013). It was formed in 1970 by merging various other municipalities that had grown together, including Bad Meinberg and Horn - the new entity's original name was Bad Meinberg-Horn, before taking its present name.

Horn-Bad Meinberg is the location of the Externsteine, a rock formation consisting of several tall, narrow columns.

In the municipality are the two highest peaks of the Eggegebirge, the Lipp Velmerstot (441 m) and the Prussian Velmerstot with about (464 m) above sea level and the highest elevation of the Teutoburg forest, the Barnacken with (446 m). The deepest point of the metropolitan area is (125 m). Between the districts Horn and Holzhausen-Externsteine is the most famous natural monument of the Teutoburg Forest, the Externsteine, nearby springs the Wiembecke.

Starting in the west the municipality is bordering to Schlangen, Detmold, Blomberg and Schieder-Schwalenberg in Lippe. It follows in the south Höxter with the community Steinheim. Southwest still meets the Kreis Paderborn with the communities Altenbeken and Bad Lippspringe on the border with the municipality Horn-Bad Meinberg.


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