Paderborn

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

Understand

Get in

By car

Paderborn is on the Autobahn A33.

By coach

By plane

  • 🌍 Paderborn/Lippstadt airport (located about 15 km south-west of Paderborn). There are regular connections with Munich and Antalya 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. (updated Jun 2025)

By train

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

Get around

Foot, bus or bicycle

See

  • 🌍 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. 

Do

  • 🌍 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.

Drink

Paderborner Beer.

Sleep

Nearby

  • 🌍 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, 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. 

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