Paderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The population is about 142,000, of which about 8% are students at the local university and about 10,000 are members or former members of the British armed forces. The vast majority of the armed forces’ members and families are located in the ward of Sennelager, due to the proximity of the large barracks on Bielefelder Strabe.
The name of the city derives from the river Pader, which originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral, where St. Liborius is buried. The Pader is Germany’s shortest river.
It is the headquarters of the former Nixdorf computer company, bought by siemens in the early 1990s and knows as Siemens-Nixdorf for about 10 years. The company is now known as Wincor-Nixdorf which is still located in Paderborn, but Siements retains a considerable presence in the city. Paderborn is also home of the “Brauerei Paderborner” brewery.
Paderborn has the biggest computer museum in the world, the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum. Every year, Paderborn hosts the German Open of Robo-soccer.
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