A warm welcome to Bünde Sport and exercise in Bünde Hospitality in Bünde

Bünde lies in the middle of the People of all ages enjoy sport. Ennigloh, is not only for early bird The visitor to Bünde can live well. As well as places to eat, there are Ravensberg Basin between the Active people can make use of the swimmers but also provides an An abundance of comfortable plenty of pubs, bistros and cafés BÜNDE and the Wiehen many specialist facilities in sports all-weather alternative to open- restaurants and pubs ensures to meet friends or to make new Mountains in East - clubs or in the adult education cen- air swimming. Walkers can enjoy that guests can be spoiled with ones at the bar. Or how do you The regional centre of East Westphalia . Around 47,000 people live in tre, either on their own or as part of the 100 km network of designated German specialities and inter- fancy a visit to the oldest disco in this 5,930 hectare area. This town a group. Bünde has two large com- paths in the vicinity. There are par- national cuisine. It is, of course, ? Hospitality in Bünde on the is more than 1,150 munity schools and sports centres. ticularly attractive tours available possible to sample typical West- can be enjoyed in modern hotels, years old. Its inhabitants, visitors Attractions include sports halls and in Radringhausen, the national- phalian fare such as home-made cosy guest houses, B & Bs and and those in the hospitality industry sports fields, a skating rink, three ly acclaimed spa resort with its Stippgrütze (not unlike haggis) a spa hotel. All according to taste can enjoy its many benefits. These artificial turf pitches and a German health cure quarter in Dünne, and or Westphalian Pickert (a type of and pocket, the visitor can choo- include a wide spectrum of busi- Soccer Association (DFB) mini- in Muckum-Habighorst, Werfer potato pancake). se the peace and quiet of the ness and employment opportunities pitch. From May till September the Bruch, Else-Aue, Bustedter Holz, together with excellent provision for open-air swimming pool in the cen- the Doberg Nature Reserve, and a shopping and housing, education tre of Bünde offers the opportunity sea-water aquarium in Stein. In an and sport, plus facilities for health, to cool down with a swim or one of area of woodland in the Ennigloh recreation, leisure and culture and the other water activities availab- district is Dustholz Park, laid out an attractive array of hospitali- le: children's pool, non-swimmer as natural parkland with a mini- ty options. Randringhausen, the as well as swimmer pools and not golf course. Steinmeister Park right nationally recognised health resort for the faint-hearted: the ten-meter next to the town centre is fast be- and spa at the foot of the Wiehen diving board. The Bünder Welle, coming a multi-generational mee- Mountains complements this an all-year-round indoor swimming ting place. Elsedamm is popular for wealth of attractions. Tradition and pool with garden surroundings in walking, cycling and jogging. innovation stand side by side with commercial development in this The town’s historic coat of arms charming town. Its colourful history as a cigar production centre cle- network of cycle paths and intere- ared the way for the lively mixture sting destinations for local excursi- of industries we see today. Bünde ons help to make Bünde particularly is a pleasant town offering both attractive to short-stay or weekend commercial and shopping potenti- holiday-makers as well as visitors al and with good transport links to making a longer visit for reasons of the surrounding area and further health or recuperation. afield. It has a solid infrastructure and a modern town centre with Bünde is inviting plenty of green space in the form of parks, gardens Many establishments have pre- country or the lively city centre. and rural landscape. served their own speciality over Conference and social facilities Living in fine style in the years. There is something are available for conferences and an historic building here for every taste; from the old- other events. For further informa- or in a personally- world atmosphere of a renovated tion see the separate Register designed dream half-timbered house to a stylish of Hotels and Accommodation in house turns daily wine bar or the popular forest Bünde. living into an and tourist restaurants. unforgettable experience. Opportunities for an active life span the genera- tions and encoura- ge shared life-plan- ning. Everyone in Bünde benefits from life The open-air swimming pool in Bünde-Mitte is a fun place to swim in the sum- here – from young fami- mer. The indoor swimming pool, "Bünder Welle", is open all year round and is lies right through to investors. widely used by clubs as well as for serious training. The traditional Bünde open Parkhotel Sonnenhaus – Welcome to Unique visitor attractions, a large cycling event, "1000 bikes" Bünde gets together in Museumsplatz the hub of sophisticated hospitality Even today, the cigar characterizes Bünde’s image Aerial view of Bünde, Photo: Ingo Hecker

Commercial development Spend time browsing or shop- Traditions and festivals The culture scene in Bünde City of Bünde: Dates and Facts BÜNDE The commercial upturn in Bünde ping in this attractive town. Bünder, as the local people are The cultural focus in Bünde is the instance, or the ambitious spectrum City of Bünde began in the middle of the 19th cen- called, know how to celebrate with theatre and concert programme by of church music, events in the Post Code 32257 The location of the tury, thanks to the cigar industry that friends and visitors. Many well- Stadtkultur GbR (Urban Culture) Forum in Ennigloh with room for 600 Prefix number +49 52 23 town in relation to replaced the hand production of loved events have had their special which takes place in the large con- people, school performances, con- District of , administrative yarn and linen which had previously place in the local calendar since cert hall of the Stadtgarten. certs by the Bünde Music School, district of , the area been the town's main industry. The the year dot. The spring festival Outstanding theatrical productions the activities and events organised Land of North Rhine-Westphalia. story goes that in 1843, Tönnies takes place on the first weekend alternate with great musical by the many clubs in Bünde, lectu- Bünde municipal administration, Wellensiek, father of a young family, after Mother's Day. The core ele- moments with old and new master- res and readings in the library and Bahnhofstr. 13 + 15, 32257 Bünde, went to on a trolley-bus and ment of this event is the exhibition pieces. The breadth of events on so much more. The cultural contri- P.O. Box 27 49 • 32227 Bünde walked back to Bünde with 75 in the pedestrian precinct by offer in the Stadtgarten also inclu- bution of Bünde’s twin towns of Phone 1 61-0, Fax 1 61-3 51 Citizens Advice Bureau in town pounds of tobacco. He and his wife Bünde’s landscape designers and des musicals, ballet, dance and folk- Jakobstad/ Pietarsaari (Finland) and Traditional onion market hall, phone 161-435, Fax 161-352 turned this tobacco into cigars, Historic façades in Eschstraße garden centres; an event which is dancing, rock and pop, folk music Leisnig () adds an intere- Internet: www.buende.de which sold very well. unparalleled in the region. As well onion market, which developed and more. In the late summer of sting wider dimension to the overall E-mail: [email protected] as all this, the merchandise on sale from the Ägidii Market of 1756. 2001, an old cinema was given a cultural scene. Bünde – Cigar Town new lease of life: The Universum in Eschstraße and Bahnhofstraße This huge spectacle is something Further information on cultural Urban area cinema near the station suddenly Bünde's popular weekly market is guaranteed to appeal to the sen- between a fair and a craft market events in Bünde can be obtained Urban area 5,930 hectares with important metal-working firms shone forth again and – extended ses, with good things to look at, and its kitsch and jumble bring in from the Tourist Information Office North-south extent 10.7 km supplying the automotive, phar- with a functional annex – took up its Winter view of the Bünde Town Hall listen to, smell and taste. Bünder more than 250,000 visitors every (Tel. 05223/161-389) or from East-west extent 11.0 km maceutical, furniture, packaging and takes place in the market square in role as a modern cultural, educatio- can always be relied upon to take year on the last weekend of Sep- Stadtkultur GbR (Tel. 05223/178898, Altitude 59 -175 metres above sea level. food industries. Specialist machine- Marktstraße three times a week on nal and community centre. Schools part in whatever is happening, tember. or on the Internet under: www.buen- Distances: ry and vehicle manufacturers, textile Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays whether it's "1000 Bünde Bikes", Repertory cinema, film series aimed 8 primary schools, 1 secondary and is well-known and well-loved de.de[Veranstaltungen]). Administrative centre, Herford 12 km and clothing firms, electronics and Bahnhofstraße, where town centre traffic-calming measures are in operation health awareness days or flea mar- at particular groups, classical music, school, 2 secondary schools, 2 gram- 22 km wood-working businesses and the throughout the region. The wide jazz & blues and rock & pop as well mar schools, 1 comprehensive school kets. Multi-cultural events create Osnabrück 39 km glass and plastics industries also variety of goods for sale include (Federation of Comprehensive new impressions and make new as surprisingly experimental theatre, Hannover 100 km belong on this list. Local producers Every town needs a main shopping list shops and department stores regional specialities like Westphalian friends. Our many visitors from cabaret, comedy, variety, book rea- Schools, Bünde/, 1 spe- of model-building parts, casing street and boulevard, and in Bünde offer all the shopper could wish for. ham, sausage, meat, poultry, fish near and far are always most wel- dings, studio theatre and children's cial school for children with learning and textiles as well as bread and Population statistics systems, heating, cooking, air-con- these are Eschstraße and Bahnhof- The wide range of choice together Coat of arms from the time the firm come in Bünde. This also applies theatre, lectures and educational difficulties, 2 vocational schools for ditioning and commercial kitchen straße. The streets between was founded bakery products, eggs, dairy pro- Urban district total of total of the Herford district (specialist school with ample provision of free local to the many sports and shooting events plus multi-media presentati- males females equipment are all well-known firms. Tönnies-Wellensiek-Platz and the parking makes shopping a pleasure. duce, honey, fruit, vegetables and festivals celebrated in all areas of ons all make a dazzling impression. for technology and therapeutic ped- A wide spectrum of trades work- Town hall are now a pedestrian pre- lovingly-preserved detail, so charac- flowers. The market is open every the town during the summer The gastronomic experience of Ahle 980 954 1.934 agogy, school of business studies), shops, service industries, service cinct, and beyond that is a traffic- teristic of the Bünde townscape. A Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday months. The end of summer is Humphreys – small but beautifully Bünde-Mitte 5.286 5.739 11.025 adult education centre in Herford throughout the year from 07:00 until providers and wholesale and retail calmed area. These combine to pro- stroll round the traditional Bünde marked by the traditional Bünde ...with fun for everyone formed – completes the inviting Bustedt 833 890 1.723 district. market is a must for visitors. This 13:00. firms sit alongside the established vide 2,000 metres of attractive shop- ambience of this building. To give a Dünne 2.004 2.098 4.102 Sport and leisure sectors of agriculture, landscaping ping possibilities. Numerous bou- complete picture of the cultural Ennigloh 4.233 4.552 8.785 1 heated open-air swimming pool, 1 and horticulture. tiques, independent shops, specia- scene in Bünde would involve a Holsen 1.833 1.864 3.697 indoor swimming pool, 19 sports and much longer list; the chamber music The Wellensiek-Steinmeister statue Listen to live music Hüffen 914 910 1.824 gymnastics halls, 20 sports fields and series in the Dammhaus, for (also available in miniature) Hunnebrock 1.584 1.674 3.258 outdoor sports facilities, 2 tennis Muckum 402 405 803 courts, 3 shooting ranges, 2 riding Transport links at a glance: This marked the birth of the local Spradow 2.325 2.468 4.793 facilities, angling on the Else (more cigar and tobacco industry. As a Motorways: Federal autobahn A 30 / E 30: Hengelo/NL-Osnabrück-Bad Südlengern 2.252 2.343 4.595 than 40 different species of fish), cyc- result of this, Bünde became known Oeynhausen; Junctions/Exits: Bünde 27 , 28 Werfen 512 544 1.056 le hire, bike park at the station. as 'Cigar Town' or the cigar box and Federal autobahn A 2 / E 34 / E 30: Oberhausen-- the town's fame spread far and Total Health and social life Hanover-; Junctions/Exits: Herford / / B 239 29 wide. There are still 3 well-known commune 23.169 24.447 47.616 1 hospital (400 beds), 1 psychiatric Travel centre/railway station: Bünde (Westph.) · IC-station · Bicycle station cigar manufacturers in the town * Number of inhabitants by urban district clinic, 11 general practitioners, 46 Bus service: Regional and city bus lines today. Every second or third cigar Shopping Sunday Key date 31/12/2011 specialists, 22 dentists, 8 practitioners Commercial airports: Münster/Osnabrück, Hanover-Langenhagen, Paderborn/Lippstadt produced in Germany is made in Accomodation status: HWI, NWI, HWI + of alternative medicine, 4 midwives, Bünde. As the cigar industry expan- Our smaller visitors can also find NWA 3 veterinary surgeons, 13 pharmacies, Tourist-Information Publisher / Stadt BündE© ded, associated industries also something to suit them. The town medical and health centres, 19 day Culture and events centres Economy and Culture sprang up, such as print works and centre also boasts specialist mar- nurseries, 34 children's playgrounds, Phone +49-5223/161-389 Phone +49-5223/161-389 Fax +49-5223/161-6389 Fax: +49-5223 161-6389 manufacturers of cardboard pac- kets and large retail outlets, and Stadtgarten (and Stadthalle), 1 youth hostel, 1 youth leisure centre, Bahnhofstraße 13+15 Postfach 2749 kaging and cigar boxes. As part of cosy cafés and restaurants offer an Universum Cinema, Dammhaus, 4 residential care homes for the el- Postfach 2749 Bahnhofstraße 13+15 later commercial re-structuring, well- More than 100 training establishments irresistible array of cakes, ices, Town Hall, Library, Music school, derly, 1 day care centre with welfare Internet: www.tourismus-buende.de 32257 Bünde known firms producing kitchens, showcase their programmes every snacks, meals and drinks. A glance centre, 10 day centres for the elderly, e-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.buende.de community schools Bünde-Mitte and e-mail: [email protected] home furnishings, upholstery and year at the training market in Bünde’s Family-centred shopping for both at the upper storeys of the buildings Bünde-Nord, events in churches, support centres for foreigners and office furniture moved in together City hall adults and children reveals historic façades with their Eschstraße pedestrian precinct in the town centre Spring festival with large-scale flower festival Ballet in the Stadtgarten Concert Hall light shows in Bünde. refugees and numerous churches. 4 Doberg – a 7 City Hall "Stadtgarten"- with way as the Bünder (enormous problems as well as rehabilitation Get to know Bünde "sea water aquarium in stone", its "Brasserie im Stadtgarten und cigars in the museum). The Leis- following hip, knee and spinal sur- Albert-Schweitzer-Straße, Stadthalle" (brasserie in the niger giant's boot (shoe size 330) gery. Natural remedies used are Am Kalkofen, Meyerstraße Stadtgarten and City Hall), is unique and has found its way iodine-sulphur and sulphur- mud Places of interest to visit in the town into the Guinness Book of baths with fresh, natural mud. Addi- Phone: 10090 · Fax: 10040 Bünde at a glance Doberg lies to the south-east of Records. tional therapeutic treatments avai- Internet: www.stadtgarten-buende.de 1 Bünde Museum – a museum 2 St Laurentius Church, Bünde and consists of sand and Schießsportan- lable are carbon dioxide and oxygen gas baths, bromine, valeri- island at the edge of eastern Bahnhofstr.12 marl, the deposits left by the origi- lage Ennigloh 12 The nationally recognised an and pine needle baths and mas- Westphalia Protestant parish office, nal North Sea that covered this Stempeldiek 2a spa resort of Randringhausen sage. Further information can be area about 30 million years ago. with its health cure district Fünfhausenstr. 8-12 Wehmstr. 12, phone: 1 00 69 obtained from the spa hotel and Phone: 79 33.00, Fax: 79 33 01 This is the only site in the whole of To the north of the town lies the na- www.museum-buende.de Tourist Information. The beautifully Europe where all the strata of that tionally recognised spa resort of kept spa parkland keeps its own German tobacco and cigar museum period are still intact. Doberg is, Randringhausen with its health cure promise to promote relaxation and Doberg museum – geological muse- therefore, of great scientific signi- 32 Levelling point: The Bünde station district and the only nationally recog- well-being and even in its white um of East Westphalia-Lippe nised iodine-sulphur springs in North winter dress offers irresistible Hurlbrinksches Haus, museum of Rhine-Westphalia. Randringhausen The Stadtgarten concert hall The 1882 benchmark of European walks, Nordic walking and jogging. local history) arc measurement 531 of the is continuing the centuries old ba- There are also circular footpaths, Opening hours: Tues - Fri 14:00 – For over 100 years the Stadtgarten Prussian Geodetic Institute in thing tradition in Bünde, where the graded for difficulty, through the 18:00. (Closed on Mondays), Sat had been the focus for social and Paderborn is today a technical first health spring was discovered and Sun 11:00 -18:00. cultural events in Bünde. Completely monument. in 1728. renovated in 1997, the main hall can seat up to 2,400 people. It is the ve- nue for large-scale performances, celebrations, concerts, theatre, mu- sicals, ballet, dance and folk-dancing, The Doberg natural monument rock & pop, folk music, trades fairs, conferences etc. The events calendar Naturschutzgebiet ficance. Huge turtles, gigantic is worth a look and can be found on German tobacco and cigar museum sharks, slender toothed whales, the Internet under: Elseauen manatees, numberless snails, sea Park in Randringhausen www.buende.de or on the The German tobacco and cigar urchins and crabs milled around in Geocache trail museum is located in the St Laurentius’ Church in the town the warm tides of the wide ocean. Stadtgarten website. charming landscape in the vicinity Striediekschen Hof, built in 1830. The centre This complex ecology can still be For telephone information: Bünde The wooded spa area covers of the health cure district. Leisure 2,230 exhibits and 31 interactive activities are also available to seen in its fossilised form. The Tourist information office. around 266 hectares and sur- media stations give an insight into the St Laurentius' church in Bünde is most significant finds from Doberg rounds the actual health cure health cure visitors in the form of a cultural history of tobacco. The ori- one of the oldest churches founded include the skeleton of a manatee Bünde, Phone: district of 34 hectares. In the spa special programme of events, gins of tobacco in con- in Westphalia. An ancient deed +49 52 23 / 1 61- 389. hotel and the various B & Bs remar- which includes slide shows, dietary nection with the and the 1 metre-long skull of a too- dating from the year 853 shows thed whale. kable success is achieved in trea- advice, folk song evenings, excur- indigenous population that this church together with a far- ting rheumatic ailments, sciatica, sions, sightseeing tours and shop- of America and the rou- ming settlement called "Buginithi" gout, nervous and gynaecological ping trips. te of this weed, unknown Federal autobahn existed in the time of Louis the 5 Since 1968 Bünde has been twin- before Christopher St Paul's Church, A 30/Junction Pious (778-840). Following much Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 18 ned with the Finnish town of Columbus' voyages of Bünde Jakobstad/Pietarsaari, a coastal discovery, to the "Old building and alteration work, the town on the Gulf of Bothnia. The World" are themes cove- late Romanesque transept was St Paul's Church was built between Osnabrück Südlengern twin towns share a similar history red by the cultural history. completed in the 13th century and 1869 and 1873 in the neo-gothic Hengelo/NL Interesting facts can be has substantially survived intact. style as a hall church with three of commercial development. The discovered about tobacco The west tower is probably of an naves. The church was built in tobacco industry was also domi- as a form of medication and earlier date. The building is now sandstone, and has a mas- nant in Jakobstad at one time. used by the Lutheran church and Jakobstad has a population of about the spread of the sive tower on it west front. It was various methods of has been a listed building since Pub night around 20,000. The town twinning 1985. St Laurentius' Church is cer- originally built as a preaching thrives on regular contact on both tobacco consumption. church intended to accommodate There are more than tainly well worth a visit, but there a large and a small scale. In 1990, The place to meet: "Brasserie im 500 pipes and 200 are other things to see as well. A 1,200 people, and so the pulpit Bünde was also twinned with smoking accessories Advertising walk round the square in front of stands in the middle of the attentive Stadtgarten und Stadthalle" (Brasserie Leisnig in Saxony. This small on display, which give model North the church reveals some ancient congregation. This imposing buil- in the Stadtgarten and City Hall) with mining town with a population of interesting glimpses America chestnut, oak and lime trees which ding bears witness to the growth of its restaurant, beer gardens, 2 main around 9,000 and situated in an into the social signi- (19th also give that air of timelessness. the Lutheran congregation in rooms (space for 60 to 100 people) attractive area of the Freiberg Century) Radwegweisung ficance and the con- Bünde and the development of the for conferences, seminars, family ce- in Bünde basin has a remarkable history. sumption of tobacco 3 Hof Rahning and town in the mid-19th century. St lebrations or shooting range. A further Cigars were also once produced previous centuries. in Leisnig. The Leisnigers go for Haus Dahlkötter, Paul's Church has been a listed advantage: Right next to the superlatives in exactly the same Green oasis in Randringhausen Bahnhofstr. 17 and 19 building since 1986. As well as Eschstraße pedestrian precinct is one services of worship and other of the largest car-parks. 9 Hof Rahning was once a town ecclesiastical events, the church The tobacco warehouse, Wasserbreite 5 Hunnebrock 13 27 farmhouse dating from 1677. regularly hosts classical concerts 8 Steinmeisterpark, Nordring, Bünde Municipal Bünde-Mitte primary school, which feature artists from Germany Administration, Haßkampstr. 44-50, Phone: 1 42 7 Bismarckstraße, Goetheplatz Town hall, Bahnhofstraße 13 + 15, and abroad. 28 Bünde-Mitte secondary Nienburger Mühle Phone: 1 61 – 0, Fax: 1 61 – 3 51, modern school, an der Neuen Else internet: www.buende.de Strotweg 19, Phone: 17 91 91 e-mail: [email protected] Opening hours: 29 Bünde secondary school, Marvel at Bünde’s history in the tobac- Mon – Thurs 08:00 – 12:30 and Heidestr. 41, Phone: 1 22 35 co museum 14:00 – 16:00, Fri 8:00-12:00. 30 Photos by: Hecker · Klapper · Kuhlmann · Psychiatric day hospital of Meier-Goerlich · Mag. Greiner-Rietz · Social department Herford clinical centre, socio- The Doberg Museum – the geolo- Rogowski · Voss · Dudek · Dickertmann · Bielefeld Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 08:00 – 12:00 psychiatric rehabilitation facility gical museum of eastern Franzrahe · Westerbeck · Dix · Beinke · (other appointments by arrangement) for Herford district, The tobacco warehouse – an industrial Bünde Wesphalia-Lippe is housed in a Museum Bünde · Archiv Stadt Bünde ·  Stadtteil Hüffen  14 Spradower Schweiz 12, modern building in the same area. monument Tiemann · EMR · Hupe · Cocomico- Station, Phone: 94 22-0 is mobile Bahnhofstraße 82, Phone/Fax: 30 98 The Oligocene period is brought to life Theater, Köln · Aerial photo: released by 31 with cycle station, Employment agency here, a time when 30 million years ago The striking four-storey red-brick Reg.-Präs. Stuttgart Licence.-No. 9/70 100. Neue Westfälische Bünde IC railway station LPT – local public Bahnhofstraße 84, Phone: 91 13 03 Borriestr. 8, Phone: 49 87- 0 the waves of an earlier North Sea building with its two attic floors was Herausgeber/Text and formatting: as part of the East West- transport Cycling in Bünde and central bus station (ZOB), 32 surged against the cliffs of the built in 1896 in the industrial style of Fire and rescue station, Bünde municipal authority, February 2012 Wasserbreite Dünner Str. 20, Phone: 99 10-351 Teutoburg Forest. Fascinating fossils that time as a tobacco warehouse. phalia linked transport Bünde railway station has a direct Details of the whole cycling network, centred on the Herford Lias Basin and Litho: bockermann medien.repro which is 120 km long and is entirely 15 Tobacco tax stamp main office, and -372, emergency number 112 Farmhouse in Rahning This is the only remaining warehouse system connection to the Bünde city bus Printed on chlorine-free, 100% recyclable services. signposted are given on the Wasserbreite 59, Phone: 186 – 0 32 An oasis of calm in Steinmeister Park in Westphalia and its appearance is paper. The Bünde area is on the 375 time- Rescue service/ ambulance, RADstadtplan (town cycling map) Federal autobahn A 30/ 16 This imposing, half-timbered listed reminiscent of the warehouse buil- table stretch of the Hengelo-Löhne „Jacobi-Haus“, Phone: 1 92 22 St. Paul’s Church, 19th Century where other information about building is in Bahnhofstraße, just line and so has excellent long- Junction Hiddenhausen Centre for the elderly in the Protes- 33 A green oasis in the middle of the dings of the north German Hanseatic Around 1,100 pupils receive instruc- cycling in Bünde can also be found. Erich-Gutenberg across from St Laurentius' Church. distance passenger rail connec- tant Johanneswerk e.V. Bielefeld, vocational college, town: The 2.5 hectare Stein- cities. In 1986, the Bünde town coun- tion here in early and basic musical /Hannover Nordring 23 - 25, Phone: 17 87-0 6 tions to Amsterdam/Münster and Wirtsheide 35, Phone: 49 75 - 0 Universum, meisterpark is barely 10 minutes cil made the tobacco warehouse a education, music theory and instru- suggestions for excursions encoura- Hanover/Berlin. 17 Hauptstraße 9 walk away from the shopping area. listed building and it has subsequent- mental or vocal tuition in a total of 25 ge cycling all year round. The routes Main post office/ Anna-Siemsen School, service headquarters, Benches along a network of paths ly been completely restored. This subjects. The musical skills the for open cycle races and some of the Wirtsheide 35, Phone: 49 75 - 0 Phone: +49 52 23/17 88 88 General German Bicycle Association Citizens' Advice Bureau in the town hall Bismarckstr. 21, Phone: 162 – 0 invite the visitor to sit and rest for a industrial monument is still used as pupils acquire can be expressed and 13 34 Bünde-Nord school centre (card phone) 18 moment or two. This is the place to a tobacco warehouse. developed in the symphony orche- (ADFC) evening excursions can be Your central starting Opening hours: Phone: 0 52 23/1 61-435 Open-air swimming pool with Ennigloh forum and Fax: 0 52 23/17 88 77 recover from the stress of everyday stra, chamber music groups, the big Other regional bus services provi- downloaded as GPX files from point for questions, Mon-Tues 8.00 - 16.00 Fax: 0 52 23/1 61-352 Bünde-Mitte, sports centre, Interior of Hurlbrink urban farmhouse information and ser- Wed 8.00 - 12.30 e-mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] band or other ensembles. ded by the Minden- Herforder www.buende.de. heated, Bismarckstraße, in the Siegfried-Mohning sports hall, life and to enjoy the laughter of 10 The Bünde Music School vices from A to Z. Thurs 8.00 - 18.00 www.buende.de Internet : www.universum.tv Verkehrsservice GmbH start from Phone: 1 56 93 Jahnstr. 8, Phone: 6 39 41 Wiehen Mountains can be seen in the children in the play area at the Amtshausplatz 1, Fri 8.00 - 13.00 the central bus station. May – September, Mon 6:00 – 7:00 section entitled "The Mesozoic period edge of the park or simply to watch Phone: 49 71 80, Fax: 49 71 99 11 Public Library and 13:00 – 20:00, Bünde-Nord secondary on the southern edge of the North the ducks swimming along. modern school, E-Mail: [email protected] Eschstraße 50, Phone: 99340 - 0 Bünde railway station Cycling in Bünde Free Parking in Bünde Tues – Fri 6:00 – 20:00, Sat, Sun German Basin". The most important and on legal holidays 7:00 – 18:00 Ringstr.65-67, Phone: 6 06 11 Bride and groom take advantage of the The Bünde Music School was foun- Fax: 99340 - 29 P 1 Car park at the town hall P 15 Car park at the Stadtgarten exhibits from more recent periods of historic ambience of the Dammhaus The linked transport system in East- 19 Freiherr-vom-Stein Opening hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 11:00 Info: Stadtbusbüro Museumsplatz 9 • Telefonieren zum Ortstarif The BahnRadRoute (rail-cycle route) P 2 Car park at Laurentius Church, Elsestadion and BTW sports hall, the Oligocene era are the Doberg ded in 1958 as part of the youth Westphalia-Lippe (VVOWL) has a concert hall, Sedanstraße grammar school, skeleton of the famous Bünde mana- music movement in the Herford – 13:00 Thurs 11:00 – 19:00 Weser-Lippe and the Else cyc- Wehmstraße Lübbecker Straße/Nordring 57 b, Dahlkötter, the four-storey half-tim- network of around 80 local trains. Modern city buses run on 4 routes P 16 Car park at the Stadtgarten Ringstr. 69, Phone: 67 71 and 67 72 tee and the skull of equally famous district and was taken over in 1970 le path lead long-distance cyclists P 3 Car park on Nordring Phone: 57 67 bered house next door is thought to The library holds around 40,000 There is a direct train service to through the Bustedt, Dünne, through Bünde. It is very straightfor- concert hall, Steinmeisterstraße Erich Kästner toothed whale. into the care of the local authority. P 4 Car park beside St Pau's 20 Tax office, have been built in 1555. If this is books, CDs, cassettes and CD- Hanover Trade Fair CeBit and Ennigloh, Hunnebrock, Südlengern ward to combine cycling with rail tra- with mobile home park (Waste comprehensive school, Since 1983 it has been based in the Cycle park at the railway station, Church, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße/ Lettow-Vorbeck-Str. 2 – 10, the case, the house is the oldest ROMs for every taste and every Hanover Airport also has a rail link. and Spradow districts, serving vel. Commuters can simply take their disposal site at the service station Ringstr. 59, Phone: 68 88 - 0 around 35,000 residents. Information Bahnhofstr. 84 Hangbaumstraße Phone: 1 69 – 0 building in Bünde. It was originally former administration building in interest which are available for bor- Intercity trains run on the bike with them on the train or leave on Herforder Straße 147-151) 35 on fares and timetables can be Supervised cycle park with servicing P 5 Car park at the museum, 21 Bünde-Enningloh built simply as a farmhouse. An Ennigloh, a handsome art nouveau rowing. Amsterdam/Münster, Osnabrück- them safely in the cycle station at Lukas-Krankenhaus primary school The library also hosts a varied cul- Hanover-Berlin route. But as well as obtained from the bus office or the and hire. Phone: +49 52 23 / 91 13 03 Elsestraße P 17 Car park at the hospital, extension on the west side served building with a Renaissance-style Bünde rail station. E-Bikes and (hospital) e.V., Schulstr. 48, Phone: 6 09 76 tural programme: Story-telling ses- ICEs, there are other excellent con- Treffpunkt bus stop. The mobility P 6 Car park at the market place Brunnenallee as a stable. The cellar beneath the south gable built in 1902. Pedelecs can be topped up at the Hindenburgstr. 56, Phone: 1 67 – 0 36 sions, book quizzes and puppet nections to Hanover, Osnabrück, centre is also here and can supply P 7 underground car park at the P 18 Car park at the cemetery, Bünder Welle indoor house, with its small windows, still station with power for the next stretch. P Car park 22 Youth welfare office of the plays for children, plus lectures and Rheine, Altenbeken and Paderborn. information on all LPT services. market place Kapellenweg swimming pool, covered with a grille, was once Kilowatt hours are free of charge for P 8 Car park at Wittekindstraße city of Bünde, Kloppenburgstr. 25, Phone: 6 19 38 used by the police as a jail. Today Universum Cinema readings and lectures etc. Just More information from the DB infor- all cycle station customers. Cycling Mobile home park P 19 Car park at the Doberg, Ortstraße 5a, Phone: 1 61-450 - come drop by, it's well worth a look! mation centre in Bünde, Phone +49 41 City bus office P 9 Car park beside the Tax Office, 37 Dustholzpark, this building is occupied by the The Steinmeister pond is the only is in season in Bünde all year round. P+R Meyerstraße 465, FAX: 1 61-399 52 23 / 183 78 03 Museumsplatz 9, Phone: +49 5223 Park and ride car park Lettow-Vorbeck-Straße Ellersiekstraße House in Hurlbrink and museum island registry office. The Universum Cinema suc- remaining fish pond of what at the From April until October it is, of P 20 Car park at the gymnasium, 23 - 188122, Fax: +49 5223 - 184978 Taxi P 10 Car park and park+ride-car park Centre for children and young 38 cessfully combines the atmosphere end of the 19th century were 38 course, very busy. That's why the Taxi stop Erich-Martens stadium, E-Mail: [email protected] at the Central Bus Station (ZOB) Wirtsheide people „Atlantis“ The exhibits in the museum of local of a 50s cinema with the latest ponds between Lübbecker Straße Bünder Radelsommer summer P 11 Car park at Kleiner Bruchweg Auf’m Rott 8, Phone: 29 01 Ellersiekstraße Opening hours: Mon - Fri 9:00 – Town information point P 21 Two car parks at the community history in the Hurlbrinksches Haus technology. The cinema can seat and Bismarckstraße first created as cycling calendar bundles all the dates P 12 Car park at the post office, 39 Riding facilities of the 13:00 and 14:30 – 17:30 to provide a quick overview. Cyclists P 22 school, Bünde-Nord 24 and the Spieker next door are tools 220 patrons and is a centre for fish farms. Fish farming was intro- One-way street Bismarckstraße District Court Reiterverein Bünde Saturdays 9:00 – 13:00. from all over the region meet on the P 23 Car park at the indoor swim- Hangbaumstr. 19, Phone: 9 22 - 0 and equipment related to the linen intimate theatre and cinema. It is duced by August Steinmeister, the P 13 Car park at the open-air swim- (Riding Club) e.V., weaving industry and show aspects first Sunday in July for a cycling day Pedestrian precinct ming pool, Kloppenburgstraße Bültstr. 2, Phone: 6 10 52 open six days a week and presents son of the co-founder of the Bünde Tourist-Information ming pool, Bünde-Mitte, 25 of life in the town at the end of the 19th and open cycle race. The annual WC Police station, emergency Telefon 05223/161-389 Public toilets Bismarckstraße P 24 Car park at Wittekindstraße/ 40 and beginning of the 20th centuries. entertainment for all tastes. In cigar industry. There is no record of summer event Radopoly & Co. com- number 110 Catholic Church of St Josef, Telefax 05223/161-6389  P 14 Car park at the Else stadium, Winkelstraße Philippstr. 2 - 10, Phone: 30 93 The reconstruction of a typical corner Humphreys, the bistro attached to why fish farming did not survive in bines sociable Post office Wittekindstr. 46, Phone: 1 87 - 0 Bahnhofstraße 13 +15, 32257 Bünde Lübbecker Straße P 25 Car park and park+ride car park shop as it would have been around the cinema, can meet in a sociable Bünde. The little house at the edge cycling with solving 26 41 Internet: www.tourismus-buende.de Hospital Gymnasium am Markt City bus office and Treffpunkt stop the first half of the 20th century is par- setting to chat about what they of the pond are a reminder that the Music School (formerly Ennigloh puzzles. Themed Out of hours doctor: Phone: 112 · Emergency medical service: Central emergency e-mail: [email protected] grammar school, am Museumsplatz 9, ticularly interesting. Registry office, Haus Dallkötter have just seen or are about to see. fish farmer once lived here. District Office) Public Library cycle routes and Bike hire medical practice Viktoriastraße 19 · 32257 Bünde · Phone: +49-5223/19292 Marktstr. 12, Phone: 52 23 10 Phone: 18 81 22, FAX: 18 49 78