Rinteln

Rinteln is a town of Germany, in the Land of Lower Saxony.

Located on the Weser upstream of the Carried Westfalica, its population is of 28.500 inhabitants.

History

Rinteln was founded about 1150 on septentrional bank of Weser. In 1235, an establishment named Neu-Rinteln (“New Rinteln”) was created on southernmost bank: it is this village which is at the origin of the current agglomeration, because the first establishment was abandoned in 1350 because of an epidemic of Peste.

The city was then strengthened and served as place-strong to the counts of Schaumburg. It was taken by the Swedish in 1633 and was dismantled in 1807.

Its university was removed in 1809.

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