Detmold (deu)

Detmold

Detmold ranks 1,101st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kampala, Bamberg, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Memorable people born in Detmold include Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Jürgen Stroop, and Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Memorable people who died in Detmold include Nicolaus von Below, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, and Vydūnas. Detmold has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many politicians and writers. Detmold is located in Germany.

Detmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of 75,089. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of the district of Lippe and of the Regierungsbezirk Detmold. The Church of Lippe has its central administration located in Detmold. The Reformed Redeemer Church is the preaching venue of the state superintendent of the Lippe church. Read more on Wikipedia