Teutoburg Forest
Teutoburg Forest, also known as Eastern Westphalia and Lippe, is a region in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bielefeld and Paderborn.
Bielefeld
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Bielefeld is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with around 300,000 citizens. According to a German internet meme, this city does not exist. Incidentally this is the one thing almost all Germans know about the town.
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.
Detmold
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Detmold is a city in the Teutoburg Forest region of Western Germany. Detmold is the largest city in the Lippe district and offers a wide range of tourist destinations and a diverse cultural program and many events.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Minden and Gütersloh.
Minden
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Minden, sometimes also called Minden an der Weser or Minden is in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Gütersloh
Gütersloh is a large town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for the eponymous county and has a population of 96,320 people.
Lübbecke
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Lübbecke is a picturesque, little town in the northeast of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany at the foot of the Wiehen Hills, the last ridge before you reach the North German Plain.
Teutoburg Forest
- Type: region
- Description: region in Germany
- Also known as: “East Westphalia-Lippe”, “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”, and “OWL”
- Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
51.8956° or 51° 53′ 44″ northLongitude of center
8.8136° or 8° 48′ 49″ eastWikidata ID
Q487924
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Teutoburg Forest” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
- Chinese: “东威斯特法伦-利珀”
- Chinese: “東威斯特法倫-利珀”
- Dutch: “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
- French: “Westphalie Est-Lippe”
- French: “Westphalie-de-l’Est-Lippe”
- French: “Westphalie-Lippe”
- German: “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
- Hebrew: “מזרח וסטפאליה-ליפה”
- Italian: “Foresta di Teutoburgo”
- Japanese: “オストヴェストファーレン＝リッペ”
- Japanese: “オストヴェストファーレン＝リッペ地方”
- Japanese: “オストファーレン＝リッペ地方”
- Low German: “Austwestfaolen-Lippe”
- Low German: “Oostwestfalen-Lippe”
- Low German: “Oostwestfalen”
- Low German: “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
- Low German: “Ostwestfalen”
- Macedonian: “Источна Вестфалија-Липе”
- Persian: “توتوبورگ والد”
- Romanian: “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
- Russian: “Тевтобургский лес”
- Spanish: “Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
- Venetian: “Foresta de Teutoburgo”
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