Meinberg - Encyclopedia

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

MEINBERG, a village and watering-place of Germany, in the principality of Lippe Detmold, situated in a pleasant valley under the Teutoburger Wald, 12 m. S.E. from Detmold by the railway to Altenbeken. Pop. (1905), 1300. The waters of Meinberg, which attract annually about 1200 visitors, are sulphur springs, and are used for drinking, bathing and inhalation. They became known in the 18th century.

See Gilbert and Meissner, Bad Meinberg and seine Kurmittel (Berlin, 1902).