Spas

At the Teutoburger Wald (Teutoburger Forest) and the Wiehengebirge, there are many spas, which have salines and mineral hotsprings. Well-known places are called Bad Meinberg, Bad Salzuflen, Bad Oeynhausen, Bad Iburg and Bad Driburg. In our country every physician or doctor and sick knows which diseases can be cured there. Some rural (rustic) spas, which are very little and only known by insiders, are for example Bad Seebruch and Bad Senkelteich.

Blomberg

Blomberg is one of the smallest towns in Lippe, but not less interesting than some bigger towns in the region. The whole town is situated on a ridge with a castle on the top. Today it's used as a hotel and restaurant. The city-hall and some private-houses represent the style of the Weserrenaissance. Worth seeing are the late Middle-Age tower of the city wall and the former Augustine-monastery-church (1460-1473 ), which have a very interesting grave of the founder Earl Bernhard VII of Lippe. The relief on the gothic grave shows the church short time after its finish. In the 90s the synagogue of Blomberg was discovered again and restored. It's a nearly 2000-year-old framework-building.

Pickert

The region of the Teutoburger Wald has only a few really characteristic things to offer as traditional cuisine. The best known food would be the "Lippische Pickert", similar to a pizza, to a   "poor-person-meal". It is a special potato-pancake consisting of flour ( alternatively buck wheat flour), rubbed potatoes, eggs, salt and yeast, which is stirred in warm milk before. It has a thickness of one centimeter and is served with butter and "Lippish liver sausage" (variant for men) or butter and turnip-tops (this variant is prefered by the women).

Detmold

The capital town of the country Lippe developed above all in the 16th also in the 18th and 19th century. The castle takes a quarter of the old town - area and was constructed in the style of Weser-Renaissance. It is the youngest work of the architect Jörg Unkair, who began his career in Schloß Neuhaus and who was the first architect of Renaissance in Germany (1547 - 1557). As the Ex - country capital, Detmold has a lot of institutions which other bigger countries never have, like a country library with excellent collections, the country museum and country theatre and above all the biggest German Open Air Museum (Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum). A musical version of the war of 1870 - 1871 is provided by the song " Lippe Detmold, a wonderful city and a soldier therein", which is still sung today as a popular song. Nearby are the Externsteine, the Herrmannsdenkmal, the Vogelpark Heiligenkirchen and the Adlerwarte Berlebeck

Lippe

River which has its spring on the edge of the Teutoburger Forest  and flows into the Rhine westwards. A family of noble peers took the name of a small territory lying on the banks of the river Lippe. This family came into the Eastern part of the Teutoburg Forest during the twelfth century. Here the family established a new reign which later became an Earldom and later a Duchy, called the Duchy of Lippe. The intelligent politics of the Duke of Lippe had the consequence that Lippe stayed independent under Napoleon in contrast to other Dukedoms like Hessen, survived the Vienna Congress without damages, was not swallowed by Prussia (in contrast to i.e. Lower Saxony) and did not become a part of a federal state of Germany before 1947. Clever negotiations lead to the fact that Lippe became a part of the German federal state NRW(Northrhine-Westfalia, Nordrhein-Westfalen), the seal of which is equipped with the symbol of Lippe - the red rose. Lippe has taken much advantage of this fact, because it gets a lot of assistance from the NRW-government.