13 Sights in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany (with Map and Images)

The German Museum of Fairy Tales and Weser Legends is located in the Villa Paul Baehr, a magnificent Art Nouveau villa, at the spa gardens of Bad Oeynhausen. Originating from the private foundation of the folklorist and writer Karl Paetow, who died in 1992, the museum offers insights into the broad field of old folk tales and is primarily concerned with the pictorial implementation of fairy tale and legend motifs. It shows illustrations of the well-known children's and household fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, who found many of their fairy tales in the Weserbergland, as well as other fairy tale collectors and storytellers, as well as pictorial realizations by current artists that go far beyond book illustration.

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The Museumshof Bad Oeynhausen was opened in 1969 as a local history museum of the East Westphalian spa town. Models for the museum were the open-air museum Bad Zwischenahn, the farmhouse museum Bielefeld and the museum courtyard Rahden, which was just being built at the time. Originally, only a single building, the main building, which was transferred there in 1965, was planned. The expansion into a farm complex was triggered in 1974 by the donation of a Heuerlingshaus. By 1993, five buildings had been erected on the 2,800 m² site. In addition, there was a courtyard water mill with two mill ponds on the nearby Osterbach of the Sieker Valley.

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A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick. The most basic type of derrick is controlled by three or four lines connected to the top of the mast, which allow it both to move laterally and cant up and down. To lift a load, a separate line runs up and over the mast with a hook on its free end, as with a crane.

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Wittekindshof – Diaconal Foundation for People with Disabilities, abbreviated: Wittekindshof – Diakonische Stiftung, is a social enterprise for people with intellectual and multiple disabilities as well as mental impairments. The Wittekindshof was founded in 1887 on the southern slope of the Wiehen Hills in Volmerdingsen, today part of the East Westphalian town of Bad Oeynhausen in the Minden-Lübbecke district, where its headquarters are still located today. The Wittekindshof is active in 18 municipalities in East Westphalia, the Ruhr area and Münsterland.

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The district court of Bad Oeynhausen is responsible for the town of Bad Oeynhausen in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, where it has its seat, as well as the towns of Löhne and Vlotho in the district of Herford. Around 110,000 people live in the 201 km² judicial district. The district court of Bad Oeynhausen is also responsible as the register court of the districts of Herford and Minden-Lübbecke for the maintenance of the commercial, cooperative and association register of the district courts of Bünde, Herford, Lübbecke, Minden and Rahden.

Wikipedia: Amtsgericht Bad Oeynhausen (DE)

Frederick William IV, the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 7 June 1840 to his death on 2 January 1861. Also referred to as the "romanticist on the throne", he is best remembered for the many buildings he had constructed in Berlin and Potsdam as well as for the completion of the Gothic Cologne Cathedral.

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Peter Joseph Lenné was a Prussian gardener and landscape architect. As director general of the Royal Prussian palaces and parks in Potsdam and Berlin, his work shaped the development of 19th-century German garden design in the Neoclassical style. Laid out according to the principles of the English landscape garden, his parks are now World Heritage Sites.

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The Evangelical Church of St. Nicholas in Bergkirchen belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Bad Oeynhausen-Bergkirchen. To the east of the church is the Wittekind Spring, one of the three "Wittekind Springs", each claiming to have been the site of the "Wittekind Spring Miracle".

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The Evangelical Church of Eidinghausen in the Eidinghausen district of the town of Bad Oeynhausen is one of the two parish churches of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Eidinghausen-Dehme, which belongs to the Vlotho church district of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

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The Church of the Resurrection in the district of Bad Oeynhausen (city center) of the city of Bad Oeynhausen is the parish church of the Evangelical parish of Bad Oeynhausen-Altstadt, which belongs to the church district of Vlotho of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

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The Evangelical Church in the district of Volmerdingsen in the city of Bad Oeynhausen is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Volmerdingsen-Wittekindshof, which belongs to the church district of Vlotho of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

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The Laurentiuskirche, also known as the Kreuzkirche, in the Bad Oeynhausen district of Rehme is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Rehme, which belongs to the church district of Vlotho of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

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The Martin Luther Church in the Lohe district of the city of Bad Oeynhausen is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Lohe, which belongs to the church district of Vlotho of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

Wikipedia: Martin-Luther-Kirche (Lohe) (DE)