„Where‘d you go to school“
„In Det­mold.“
„Where??“
„Near Biele­feld…“
„But Bie­le­feld doesn‘t ex­ist... Hi­hi­hi“

This or a sim­il­ar con­ver­sa­tion takes place in which one tries to de­scribe one's place of study in more de­tail to the ig­nor­ant. Det­mold is the ideal place to study. Det­mold is loc­ated in Os­tw­est­falen-Lippe. It is said that the Lippe people were driv­en out of Swa­bia a long time ago be­cause they were too frugal. Maybe this is the reas­on why the rents are very cheap in com­par­is­on to the rest of Ger­many, for us stu­dents this is won­der­ful!

In Det­mold the bi­cycle is the new car since it takes a max­im­um of five minutes to get to most places. In the city centre there are nu­mer­ous cloth­ing stores, drug­stores, the in­ev­it­able dis­coun­ters and su­per­mar­kets, and on three days a week the Det­mold weekly mar­ket beck­ons with fresh products from the re­gion.

For a city of this size, Det­mold has an amaz­ing amount to of­fer cul­tur­ally; in ad­di­tion to the many con­certs of the uni­versity, there are a num­ber of events in Hangar 21 on an old mil­it­ary site. The jazz club "Red Horn Dis­trict" is between Horn-Bad Mein­berg and Det­mold with its great con­certs, and in the warm sea­son a num­ber of vari­ous fest­ivals take place in the city centre. Fur­ther­more, as stu­dents we have the op­por­tun­ity to at­tend all per­form­ances of our Landestheat­er, a four-part theatre with a var­ied pro­gram, free of charge.

A spe­cial high­light is the largest open-air mu­seum in Ger­many. And as be­fits a roy­al town of a prin­cip­al­ity, Det­mold nat­ur­ally has a castle in­clud­ing a park, which - in ad­di­tion to the palace garden at the uni­versity - in­vites you to hang out and do noth­ing.

Those who want to do sports will find nu­mer­ous beau­ti­ful jog­ging routes, sev­er­al sports fields, and an in­door swim­ming pool in­clud­ing a sauna. In sum­mer, four out­door pools in­vite you to take a re­fresh­ing dip. In ad­di­tion, the AStA of­fers sev­er­al sports groups (e.g. foot­ball, hand­ball, etc.)

On days off, the Teuto­burg Forest of­fers a lot of hik­ing trails, for ex­ample to Ex­tern­steine or Her­manns­den­k­mal, a monu­ment well known bey­ond the city lim­its. And after an event­ful day, you are al­ways wel­come in one of the rus­tic pubs for one or more beers.