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Bad Münder (also: ''Bad Münder am Deister'';
West Low German Low Saxon, also known as West Low German ( nds, Nedersassisch, Nedersaksies; nl, Nedersaksisch) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of t ...
: ''Bad Münner'') is a town in the
Hamelin-Pyrmont Hameln-Pyrmont is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Schaumburg, Hanover, Hildesheim and Holzminden, and by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (district of Lippe) ...
district,
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
,
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is on the south side of the
Deister The Deister is a chain of hills in the German state of Lower Saxony, about 15 mi (25 km) southwest of the city of Hanover. It runs in a north-westerly direction from Springe in the south to Rodenberg in the north. The next in the chai ...
hills in the
Deister-Süntel valley The Deister-Süntel valley (german: Deister-Sünteltal) lies in the northeast Weser Uplands in the north German state of Lower Saxony between the ridges of the Bückeberg, Süntel and Deister in the districts of Schaumburg and Hameln-Pyrmont. ...
, about northeast of Hamelin. The city with 16 districts has about 17,400 inhabitants (2020). The district Bad Münder is the administrative centre with about 8,000 inhabitants.


Sons and daughters of the town

* Georg Philipp Holscher (1792–1852), ophthalmologist * Christian Ludwig Fröhlich (14 June 1799 – 11 March 1870), executioner in Hoya * August Pott (born 1802 in Nettelrede; died 1887), linguist * Friedrich Wilhelm Nolte (1880–1952), politician (German-Hanoverian Party) * Leo Wispler (1890–1958), writer * Hans Piepho (born 1909 in Eimbeckhausen; died 1996), zoologist, entomologist and university teacher * Hildegard Falck (born 1949 in Nettelrede), Olympic champion runner * Karl-Martin Hentschel (born 1950), politician, Alliance 90/The Greens *
Frank Jelinski Frank Jelinski (born 23 May 1958 in Bad Münder am Deister) is a retired German racing driver. Career After karting, Jelinski moved to the German Formula Three Championship in 1978 and European Formula Super Vee in 1979 finishing 4th. In 1980 he w ...
(born 1953), racing driver


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External links


Official website (municipal)

Official website (tourism)
Towns in Lower Saxony Hameln-Pyrmont Spa towns in Germany {{HamelinPyrmont-geo-stub