Lichtenau is a municipality in the district of Paderborn, in

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

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Geography

Lichtenau is situated on the western slope of the

Eggegebirge The Egge Hills (german: Eggegebirge, ), or just the Egge (''die Egge'') is a range of forested hills, up to , in the east of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Geography The Egge extends from the southern tip of the Teutoburg Forest ra ...

, approx. 15 km south-east of

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

Division of the town

After the local government reforms of 1975 Lichtenau consists of the following 15 districts: * Lichtenau District * Asseln * Atteln * Blankenrode *

Dalheim Dalheim ( lb, Duelem) is a commune and town in south-eastern Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Remich, which is part of the district of Grevenmacher. , the town of Dalheim, which lies in the centre of the commune, has a population of 1,2 ...

* Ebbinghausen * Grundsteinheim * Hakenberg * Henglarn * Herbram * Holtheim * Husen * Iggenhausen * Kleinenberg

Twin Towns

* Le Mans-Mayet (

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—since September 29, 1985 *

Rangsdorf Rangsdorf is a municipality in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg in Germany. It has an airfield p to 1940 a genuine commercial airportfrom where on 20 July 1944 Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg took off on his fateful attempt to ass ...

(

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

—since February 27, 1993 *

Pieniężno Pieniężno (former pl, Melzak; ) is a town in northern Poland, located on the Wałsza River in Warmia, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is located in Braniewo County and had a population of 2,975 in 2004. History Middle Ages During ...

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) -- since Oktober 14th, 1996

References

External links

Official site

Town history
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