Paderborn

Paderborn, a town of Westphalia, situated 50 miles SW. of Hanover. The fine Romanesque cathedral (Roman Catholic), completed in 1163, is built over the sources of the Pader (a tributary of the Lippe), and contains the silver coffin of St Liborius. Other noticeable edifices are St Bartholomew's Chapel (1017) and the town-house (1615; restored 1870–76). There are miscellaneous manufactures here; and there are mineral springs close by. The old Hanse town was sacked by the Duke of Brunswick in 1622, and it suffered much during the Thirty Years' War. From 1614 to 1819 it was the seat of a Roman Catholic university. Much of it was burnt down in 1875. Pop. 19,941.