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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Adm region
- Detmold
- Capital
- Detmold
- District admin
- Axel Lehmann ( SPD )
- Total
- 1,246.4 km (481.2 sq mi)
- Density
- 278.52/km (721.37/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- LIP
- Website
- www.lippe.de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lippe ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɪpə]) is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
The district of Lippe is named after the Lords of Lippe, who originally lived on the river Lippe and founded Lippstadt there, and their Principality of Lippe. It was a state within the Holy Roman Empire and retained statehood until 1947, when it became a district of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lippe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.