Paderborn
Paderborn , the place chief of the district of Paderborn, is a town of Germany, rich person of almost 140 000 inhabitants, located at the east of the Land of Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia, in the area Westphalia-of-the Is-Lippe, the source even of the river Pader.
Having a University (University of Paderborn) and several centers of high technology, the average revenue is high there. Paid to the district, it was for 2000 of 21 531,92 € per capita and per annum.
Paderborn is also, one of the sites which accommodated, in July, JMJ 2005.
History
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Origin: born from 200 sources which spout out in the middle same of the city, Pader, after a course of only 4 km is thrown in Lippe. What makes of it the shortest river of Germany. Charlemagne large amateur of baths came “to take water there”.
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the city, Paderbon or Paderborn, and its diocese were officially founded in 799 at the time of the meeting between Charlemagne and Leon III, come to take refuge there to flee persecution Romans of the partisans of Adrien II. Just reward of the things, the following year, in 800, the pope crowns, in Rome, Carolus Magnus, as Empereur of Occident…
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In 836, at the 9th century, the city accommodated the relics of saint Liboire ( Heiliger Liborius ), bishop of Mans. These two cities then concluded a “pact from eternal fraternity”, which kept all its strength and which can be thus regarded not only as one of the oldest transborder treaties, but also like the first Jumelage (official) of two European cities.
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During the French revolution, the bishop of the Mans would have come in Paderborn.
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the abbot Franz Stock, chaplain of the prisons during the Second world war, made its studies of philosophy and theology with Paderborn of 1926 with 1932.
External bonds
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Decrees of the ecclesiastical principality of Paderborn in line
Sites in French
- Plane of the town of Paderborn [NRW with list of the streets…]
- Portrait of the Heraldic city Paderborn
- , weapons of the City
- the official site of the JMJ 2005
Sites in German
- Official site of the city
- the university
- the district of Paderborn
- figures on the district of Paderborn
Simple: Paderborn
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