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Blomberg, North Rhine Westphalia

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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Detmold

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
99.1 km²

Postal code
  
32825

Administrative region
  
Detmold

State
  
North Rhine-Westphalia

District
  
Lippe

Postal codes
  
32825

Population
  
16,259 (30 Jun 2010)

Local time
  
Sunday 5:46 AM

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Weather
  
7°C, Wind SW at 19 km/h, 83% Humidity

Blomberg is a town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with c. 15,300 inhabitants (2013)

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Map of Blomberg, Germany

Born in Blomberg

  • Wilfried Paulsen (1828-1901) was born on Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg. He was a potato breeder and in the last decades of the 19th century he was the market leader for potatoes in Germany
  • Louis Paulsen (1833-1891), the younger brother of Wilfried, was one of the strongest German chess players of the 19th century
  • Hermann Vöchting (1847-1917) was a well-known botanist and longtime director of the Botanical Institute of University of Tübingen.
  • Gerhard Schröder, born 1944 in the blomberg village Mossenberg-Wöhren, is a German politician (SPD). He was the seventh Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998 to 2005, and from 1990 to 1998 Minister President of Lower Saxony.

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