13 Sights in Detmold, Germany (with Map and Images)

The Hermannsdenkmal is a monument located southwest of Detmold in the district of Lippe, in Germany. It stands on the densely forested Grotenburg, sometimes also called the Teutberg or Teut, a hill in the Teutoburger Wald range. The monument is located inside the remains of a circular rampart.

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The Princely Residence Palace of Detmold is located in the city center of Detmold. The castle had its origins in an old castle, which was first mentioned in a document as early as 1366. The castle was the seat of the Counts and Princes of Lippe for centuries and is still inhabited today by the respective head of the House of Lippe.

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The Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold is the largest and oldest museum in East Westphalia-Lippe. The museum, which is supported by the Lippe Regional Association, is located opposite the Princely Residence Palace of the Lords of Lippe and the Lippe State Theatre.

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The Grotenburg is a 386 m high mountain in the southeast of the Teutoburg Forest, in Detmold-Hiddesen, Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). The Grotenburg is known in particular for the Hermann Monument.

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The Berlebeck Eagle Observatory is a bird park in the Berlebeck district of Detmold. It was founded in 1939 by the married couple Kati and Adolf Deppe and is now an institution of the city of Detmold.

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The Protestant Reformed Church of the Redeemer in Detmold, also known as the Market Church, is a late Gothic church building. It is the only medieval building in the city that has been preserved almost unchanged.

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The Heiligenkirchen Bird Park in the Detmold district of Heiligenkirchen is a scientifically managed zoological institution specializing in exotic birds and small mammals. The focus is on direct contact with the animals. The bird park was opened in 1969 by Kurt Eckstein and has been family-owned ever since.

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The Evangelical-Reformed Christuskirche in Detmold on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz is a church building built in the neo-Gothic style and consecrated on 12 January 1908, which was built according to designs by the architect Otto Kuhlmann.

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The Detmold Open-air Museum is a museum at Detmold in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Hagen Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe.

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Der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz ist ein öffentlicher Platz in Detmold im Kreis Lippe (Nordrhein-Westfalen). Die parkähnliche Gestaltung aus dem späten 19. Jahrhundert ist heute nur noch teilweise erhalten. Der Platz ist seit dem 14. November 1988 als Baudenkmal geschützt.

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The former Hornoldendorf manor is located in the Detmold district of Hornoldendorf. The manor house from 1840 is registered with the number A629 in the list of monuments of the Lippe town of Detmold in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The Schmerimenhaus is a listed Renaissance building in the city centre of Detmold in the district of Lippe (North Rhine-Westphalia). It was named after the patrician family Schmerimen, who lived here until 1659 and provided the mayor of Detmold from 1592 to 1605 with Johann Schmerimen. Apart from the Detmold farm, the house is the only building with a stonework gable of the Weser Renaissance and the oldest stone town house in the city centre.

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The Leistruper Forest is part of the Eggegebirge Nature Park and the southern Teutoburg Forest. It lies about 4 km east of Detmold's core town in the district of Diestelbruch and has a size of about 3.75 km². The name comes from the neighbouring Leistrup estate, which was first mentioned in a document in 1390.

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