Paderborn

Paderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Paderborn city hall

Understand

Historical half-timbered houses

• 1 Tourist information, Marienplatz 2a, ☏ +49 52 51 88 29 90. 

Get in

By car

Paderborn is on the Autobahn A33.

By plane

Terminal Flughafen Paderborn

• 1 Paderborn/Lippstadt airport (located about 15 km south-west of Paderborn). There are regular connections with Munich as well as seasonal/charter flights to holiday destinations around the Mediterranean Sea and on the Canary Islands. There is an express bus every hour between the airport and the Paderborn bus terminal.  

By train

• 2 Paderborn main station (Paderborn Hauptbahnhof). served several times a day by intercity trains between Düsseldorf and Weimar  

Get around

Foot, bus or bicycle

See

Cathedral in Paderborn (South side)

• 1 Dom (Cathedral), Domplatz. 11th -16th century 
• Rathaus (City Hall). 
• Adam-und-Eva-Haus (Adam and Eve House), Hathumarstraße 7. 
• Paderquellgebiet (Pader Headwaters). An area of more than 200 springs, the source of the Pader river, the shortest river in Germany. 

Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

• 2 Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), Fürstenallee 7. The world's largest computer museum. 

Schloss Neuhaus

• 3 Schloss Neuhaus, Schloßstraße 10, ☏ +49 5254 80192. 

Do

• 1 PaderKletter Park, Dubelohstraße 100. climb trees next to a pond, where you can also hire rowing boats 
• Guided Segway tours. Ask at tourist information 
• Water skiing, at the Nesthauser See in Sande (some kilometers northwest). 
• Flugplatz Haxterhöhe (on a hill south of the city). Take a guest flight in a glider 
• Football: SC Paderborn 07 play soccer in 2. Bundesliga, Germany's second tier. Their home ground is the Benteler-Arena, capacity 15,000, two km northwest of city centre on Paderborner Strasse near the autobahn junction.

Events

• Libori - the annual fair in the city center (1 week)
• Frühlingsfest - annual spring party with live music
• Herbstlibori - as above, but smaller
• Paderhalle. Concerts 
• Kulturwerkstatt. Concerts 

Buy

Great downtown area. Libori Galeri and Suedring are local shopping locations. Check out the street "Die Grube" between Cathedral and "Kamp".

Eat

Sunday Brunch is a must while in Germany. There are plenty of restaurants along Kamp within which one may find time well spent.

• 1 Alex, Kamp 30. 
• 2 La petite Galerie (Galerie-Hotel), Bachstr. 1, ☏ +49 5251 12240, info@galerie-hotel.de. 08:00-24:00. Very cosy inside, great places outside, very delicious food with many organic ingredients. Breakfast, lunch, tea and self-made pies, dinner. 8-24€. (updated Sep 2023)

Drink

Paderborner Beer.

• Sappho. bar and discotheque with alternative music. The Gyros with mayonnaise just next to the entry is a good fatty basis for a night. 
• Limericks. Afterwards (in the morning) a visit to nearby is obligatory. 
• Paderschänke. Tapas bar that offers Spanish ambience, snacks and wine. 
• Biergarten on Mühlenstraße. is the biggest one in Paderborn. 
• Alles Ist Gut. probably the smallest. 

Sleep

• 1 Arosa Hotel (Best Western). 
• 2 Welcome Hotel, Fürstenweg 13. 
• 3 In Via Gästehaus, Giersmauer 35. 
• 4 Youth hostel, Meinwerkstraße 16. 
• 5 Lippesee Camping, Hermann-Löns-Straße 165. 
• Camping north of Sennelager. 
• 6 Galerie-Hotel, Bachstr. 1, 33098 Paderborn, ☏ +49 5251 12240, info@galerie-hotel.de. Very cosy hotel in one of the oldest buildings of Paderborn. 80€. (updated Sep 2023)

Nearby

Bad Lippspringe spa gardens

• Kaiser-Karls-Park, Bad-Lippspringe (10 km north of Paderborn). Neatly trimmed spa gardens. 
• Gräflicher Park (Earl's park), Bad Driburg (24 km east of Paderborn, 22 minutes by train). 

Wewelsburg

• Wewelsburg, Büren (16 km south of Paderborn). Triangular-shaped, early 17th-century Renaissance castle built for the prince-bishops of Paderborn. During the Nazi era it was chosen as an SS cult-site and redesigned after Heinrich Himmler's fancy. 

Go next

• Bielefeld
• Kassel
• Detmold
• Rheda-Wiedenbrück
• Lippstadt