Driburg

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Bad Driburg is a town and spa of Germany, in Westphalia, pleasantly situated on the Aa and the historic railway Soest-Höxter-Berlin.

It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church and some glass manufactures. It is celebrated for its saline-ferruginous springs, discovered in 766, and since 1779 largely frequented in summer. In the vicinity are the ruins of Iburg, a castle destroyed by Charlemagne in 775, and bestowed by him upon the bishopric of Paderborn.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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