Höxter is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, capital of the district Höxter, prettily situated on the left bank of the Weser, 32 miles north of Kassel. Pop. (2006) 15,558 (city), 34,487 (city + communes). Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to: NRW) is - in population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an administrative region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Detmold is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the north-east of the country. ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ... Höxter is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Height is a measurement of the distance from the bottom to the top of something which is upright. ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... German car number plates show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The Christian Democratic Union (CDU - Christlich-Demokratische Union) is a political party in Germany. ... North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to: NRW) is - in population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. ... Höxter is a Kreis (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Weser watershed The Weser is a river of north-western Germany. ... Watershed of the river Weser Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River, one of the two sources of the Weser river, in northern Hessen in west-central Germany. ...

It has a medieval town hall and interesting houses with high gables and wood-carved facades of the 15th and 16th centuries. Many of the buildings in this area were damaged or destroyed by a large explosion in 2005. The most interesting of the churches is the Protestant church of St Kilian, with a pulpit dating from 1595 and a font dating from 1631. There are a gymnasium (www.kwg.hoexter.de), a school of landscape architecture and environmental planning and a monument to Hoffmann von Fallersleben in the town. The Weser is crossed here by a stone bridge about 500 feet in length, erected in 1833. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... August Heinrich Hoffmann, who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet. ...

On the Brunsberg adjoining the town there is an old watch-tower, said to be the remains of a fortress built by Bruno, brother of Widukind. Near Höxter is the castle, formerly the Benedictine monastery, of Corvey. The principal manufactures of the town are linen, cotton, cement and gutta-percha, and there is also a considerable shipping trade. Widukind or Wittekind was a Saxon leader, duke of Saxony and one of the heads of the nobility of Westphalia. ... The Imperial Abbey of Corvey (German: Fürstabtei Corvey) was a Benedictine abbey on the River Weser, 2km northwest of Höxter, now in North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

Höxter (Lat. Huxaria) in the time of Charlemagne was a villa regia, and was the scene of a battle between him and the Saxons. Under the protection of the monastery of Corvey it gradually increased in prosperity, and became the chief town of the principality of Corvey. Later it asserted its independence and joined the Hanseatic League. It suffered severely during the Thirty Years' War. After the peace of Westphalia in 1648 it was united to Brunswick; in 1802 it was transferred to Nassau; and in 1807 to the kingdom of Westphalia, after the dismemberment of which, in 1814, it came into the possession of Prussia. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Charlemagne (742 or 747 – 28 January 814) (also Charles the Great[1]; from Latin, Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus), son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, was the king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and king of the Lombards from 774 to 814. ... Carta marina of Baltic Sea (1539). ... The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of todays Germany, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ...

Höxter is also the birthplace of Mark Cartwright.

In 2005 an explosion within a house in the historic town centre damaged the town hall and many other significant buildings and resulted in the death of three people. Work has started in the rebuilding of damaged area but is expected to continue for many years.

See Kampschulte, Chronik der Stadt Höxter (Höxter, 1872).