We live in an exciting and lovely area.
DETMOLD (inhabitant: 70.000) is situated 20 m from Bielefeld and Paderborn, 50 m from Osnabrück, 60 m from Hanover, 1oo m from the dutch border and 200m from Berlin.
We live in an exciting and lovely area with good opportunity for shopping and rattering „in the beautiful town“ – as it is described – beeing surrounded by a charming landscape with gentle hills, forests and valleys.-
In a 20-minutes-walk you are in the centre of the medieval city of DETMOLD with the Princes`Castle in the middle of the town.
Detmold has a charming colourful market 3x a week, lots of culture events, as there is a Music-Academie, theatre, cabaret,seasonal town festivals .
There is a great offer of sport activities and leisure: leisure-pool , tennis , golf , sailing, gliding.
Our worldwide known sights will not fail to impress you: an interesting folk-museum and the best and largest open-air museum of rural life and farm buildings in Germany.- The world-famous "Hermann Memorial"
(with 55 m hight - our „statue of Liberty“) – in memory of German`s liberator in the year 9 A. D. from the Romans) is only ½ hour to walk through the lovely forest .
Another unique point of interest ( 10 minutes to drive ) are the 70 millions of years old „Extern Stones“, nearly 40 m high and as atronomical observatory in the Stone and Bronze Age our „Stonehenge“. Above that it consists there „Jesus Christ`s Descent" from the Cross carved in the rock in the 9th century .
Europe`s oldest bird of prey reserve – providing exciting free flight presentation of eagles- is within a reach of an 1 hour walk. As well as a birds zoo with over 2.000 exotic birds. 15 min. to drive you find an amusement-park with many excitings roundabouts and a zoo with wild beasts.
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