Salzkotten
Sign in to saveSalzkotten () is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name Salzkotten (in English, "Salt cottages") is based in the former salt production, which gave Salzkotten its raison d'être. Salt was found in the salty springs around the town.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Salzkotten
- German location.image_photo
- Salzkotten Straße 1.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Street in Salzkotten
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge der Stadt Salzkotten.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Salzkotten COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Salzkotten in PB.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Detmold
- German location.district
- Paderborn
- German location.elevation
- 97
- German location.area
- 109.8
- German location.postal_code
- 33143–33154
- German location.area_code
- 0525802955 Niederntudorf02948 Mantinghausen, Verlar and parts of Schwelle
- German location.licence
- PB
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 7 74 036
- German location.divisions
- 10
- German location.website
- www.salzkotten.de
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Salzkotten () is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name Salzkotten (in English, "Salt cottages") is based in the former salt production, which gave Salzkotten its raison d'être. Salt was found in the salty springs around the town.
==Geography== Salzkotten is situated at the border between the flat park landscape of the Münsterland in the north, the Soest Börde in the west and the dry rocky mountains with many forests in the south. It has many small fountains and rivers bringing water from the mountains to the Rhine. It is located approximately 12 km south-west of Paderborn.