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Westphalian Chamber Games

is the theater of the city and county of Paderborn.The Chamber of games have about 40,000 visitors per season.Your own ensemble currently consists of ten members actresses and actors, plus guests.The Chamber of ten different games lead pieces per season on - eight of them on the main stage and two on the studio stage.The plan includes a variety of game classics, modern classics and contemporary plays.In addition, for several years a project funded by grants annually mobile children or youth play in the Paderborn district and the region of East Westphalia-Lippe and a piece of the Paderborn Schloss Neuhaus listed in the course of the summer palace.The Westphalian Chamber Games were founded in 1957 as a private theater.In 1968 the venue in 2010, broken in the main building of the Volksbank Paderborn based on Town Hall Square (220 seats).1991 came as a second venue, the Studio Theatre in the Bell Street (50 spaces) added.

Imperial Palace Museum

is located in Paderborn in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral.It presents findings from the Carolingian, Ottonian and Saxon times.It is located at the point where one in 1964 when construction of the foundations of the palace complex dating from the 8th Century or from the time of Henry II has been found.They are part of today's buildings and in masonry can be the museum nor understand it very well.Right next to the museum today was found in 1964 the Imperial Palace of Charlemagne.The outline of this system is today only by the reconstructed foundations visible.Support of the National Museum the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe.The building is owned by the Cathedral Chapter and is leased rent free to the institution of the museum.The Imperial Palace Museum, which has been operated since 1978 by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, will be closed due to austerity measures.The current five-year contract between the chapter and the optical fiber runs through 2015.Under the agreement, 2.5 points from the optical fiber and 10 paid part-time employees by the chapter.At the museum, the archaeological city of Paderborn affiliated.

Archbishop's Diocesan Museum

which is among the oldest in Germany, houses an extensive collection on display primarily sacred art of the 10th to 20th Century.The collection has a circumference of about 8,000 exhibits, of which approximately 1,000 will be presented in the modern building.The sculpture collection includes medieval representations of outstanding examples of Westphalian Baroque sculpture such as the hard-Libori altar of 1736 from the Paderborn Cathedral.Certainly the most important sculpture is that of the Bishop of Paderborn founded and named after Imad Imad Madonna (1051-1058), one of the oldest representations of the enthroned Madonna in Western art.The museum organizes temporary exhibitions on important issues in all areas of Christian art and culture. In the years 1999 and 2006, there was next to the museum at the Imperial Palace and the Municipal Gallery at Abdinghof one of the three venues of the large, nationally very successful exhibition 799.Art and Culture of the Carolingian period, Pope Leo III and Charlemagne in Paderborn and Canossa 1077 - shock the world.History, art and culture at the rising of the Romanesque.

Paderborn Easter Run

is the oldest existing German folk and road race.It takes place annually on Easter weekend in Paderborn, and was instead held in 1947.The main runs are over 10 km and half marathon distance, but there are a 5-km run and competitions for inline skates, hand cycles and walkers and Nordic walkers.The first run in 1947 over a distance of 3.35 miles from Green-White SC Paderborn played. In the first years of varied lengths of the route, from 1961 to 1992 a distance of 25 km has been completed. Since 1974, the program includes a 10-mile run, since 1975, women start on the long haul.Start and finish at the Wall Heier Maspernplatz sports center.A flat circular course is leading to the north of the 10-km runners and one of the half-marathon runners pass twice.

Honky Tonk Festival

is an annually recurring musical event, which is available in over 50 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are.You pay it at the time admission and can celebrate the event in all participating pubs, clubs and bars.The event is jointly promoted and usually performed with a program such as open-air stages, shuttle buses and road events.The focus of the conference is live music.The "artist mark" are spared.Honky Tonk is a registered trademark.Organizers of this festival is the blues Agency GmbH, the managing director Dominik Brahler.The event concept found many imitators, the events with the same character to perform under different names.

Schutzen Fest

is a popular festival which consists of the regular meeting of fraternities shooters or shooting clubs is derived.In the course of the festival is usually in a shooting competition of the best shooter ( marksman ) was determined.Some local customs to determine the champion shot by other contests such as ring piercing, bird shooting, target shooting or shooting a bow and arrow.The customs around the shooting are mainly in Bavaria and Lower Saxony, but also on the Lower Rhine, Middle Rhine and Westphalia (especially in Sauerland ) maintained with shooters parades.To the old tradition has been the German reunification in East Germany back in ties.The traditions associated with the shooting festivals can be regionally very different.

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