Paderborn is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district.
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12 Facts About Paderborn
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Paderborn was founded as a bishopric by Charlemagne in 795, although its official history began in 777 when Charlemagne built a castle near the Pader springs.
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Only a small training and enabling staff remain at Paderborn to facilitate temporary deployments to use the Sennelager Training Area.
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Paderborn is situated at the source of the river Pader, approximately 30 kilometres east of Lippstadt and approximately 50 kilometres south of Bielefeld on the Pader.
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Paderborn is the headquarters of the former Nixdorf Computer AG, which was acquired by Siemens in the early 1990s and known as Siemens-Nixdorf for about ten years.
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Paderborn is known as Diebold Nixdorf, which is still located in Paderborn, but Siemens retains a considerable presence in the city.
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Paderborn has the largest computer museum in the world, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, opened in 1996.
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Paderborn is nationally known as a center for American Sports.
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The Neuhaus and Paderborn teams played as tier III sides for most of their histories, as has the unified club.
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In 2015, SC Paderborn were promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time.
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Paderborn is located at the Autobahn A 33, which connects Paderborn to the Autobahn A 2 in the north and the Autobahn A 44 in the south.
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In Paderborn there is a bus system served by the PaderSprinter for local buses and the Bahnbus Hochstift for regional buses.
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