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Paderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. Its geographical location 51°43′N 8°45′E, population 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 Straße.

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 (see Rivers of Germany).

It is the headquarters of the former Nixdorf computer company, bought by Siemens in the early 1990s and known as Siemens-Nixdorf for about 10 years. The company is now known as Wincor-Nixdorf which is still located in Paderborn, but Siemens retains a considerable presence in the city.

Paderborn is also home of the "Brauerei Paderborner" brewery and the SC Paderborn 07 football club, which achieved fame in 2005 by advancing to the second Bundesliga. In August 2004, the football club achieved what was then believed to be one of the biggest upsets in recent German football history when it defeated Bundesliga side Hamburger SV in a German Cup tie. However, the match ended up becoming infamous as one of many matches fixed by disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer in one of the biggest sporting scandals of recent decades.

Paderborn has the biggest computer museum in the world, the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum [1].

Every year, Paderborn hosts the German Open of Robo-soccer.

The tree Irminsul was supposedly located near Paderborn.

St. Liborius is commemorated every year in Paderborn with the Liborifest in July, although the ensuing festivities have little to do with the saint.

It is believed that Charlemagne spent considerable time in the area during his reign, and evidence in the form of ruins below and around Paderborn's cathedral seem to back this up.

Paderborn is a focal point in Germany for American sports. The local baseball team, the Paderborn Untouchables, has won many German championships, and the local American Football team, the Paderborner Dolphins, has also enjoyed considerable success.

Paderborn is the home of one of Germany's most successful junior enterprises in consulting and business, Campus Consult (Campus Consult Website). It is a non-profit educational and social organization, official partner of the University of Paderborn, and successful in teaching entrepreneurship, management skills and business networking since 1993.