Bückeburg

Until the German Revolution of 1918–1919, Bückeburg was the capital of the tiny principality of Schaumburg-Lippe. Schaumburg-Lippe continued to be an independent German state (Free state) until 1946.

Houses began to gather around the castle c. 1365 and were protected by a city wall in the 17th century. In the 19th century, it was connected to the Minden and Hanover Railway and housed a synagogue.[4] The poet J. G. von Herder was court preacher here from 1771 to 1776.[5]

Bückeburg is a former British garrison town and had a number of British residents until recently. Most of the British residents worked at the British Military Hospital (BMH) in Rinteln, or in the local English Prince Rupert School, also in Rinteln. The number of British military residents in Bückeburg decreased significantly in the late 1990s, when BMH Rinteln closed down, however the staff of Prince Rupert School were still based in Bückeburg until the closure of the school in July 2014.

Bückeburg has a railway station and is served by line S1 of the Hanover S-Bahn. There are hourly train services between Bückeburg, Minden and Hanover.

Johann Gottfried Herder 1785

• Thomas Abbt (1738–1766), writer and philosopher, Government and consistorial council as well as Patronus scholarum
• Hans Blum (born 1928), pianist, bassist, composer, was trained at the Army Music School
• Horst Fischer (1930–1986), trumpeter, was trained at the Army Music School
• Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), poet, theologian and philosopher, worked from 1771 to 1775 as the main preacher, superintendent and consistorial councilor in Bückeburg
• Wilhelm Külz (1875–1948), politician, was mayor from 1904 to 1912, from 1909 lord mayor in Bückeburg and in 1926 interior minister in the cabinets of chancellors Hans Luther and Wilhelm Marx
• James Last (1929–2015), bassist, composer and bandleader, was trained at the Army Music School
• Louise Lehzen (1784–1870), from 1814 to 1842 Gouvernante Queen Victoria lived from 1842 until her death in 1870 in Bückeburg
• Karl Lieffen (1926–1999), actor, was trained at the Army Music School
• Hermann Löns (1866–1914), journalist and writer, was from 1907 to 1909 editor of the Schaumburg-Lippische Landes-Zeitung (=newspaper)
• Timo Maas (born 1969), musician
• Iwan Müller (1786–1854), composer and instrument maker

Wilhelm Külz 1946

• Les Scheinflug (born 1938), Australian international football player and coach of their national team
• Heinrich Strack (1805–1880), architect
• Ernst Torgler (1893–1963), politician, from 1929 to 1933 KPD faction chairman in Reichstag and one of the defendants in the Reichstagsbrand process, worked from 1945 until 1948 in the Bückeburg city administration
• August von Herder (1776–1838), geologist and mineralogist
• Karl von Plettenberg (1852–1938), general of the infantry, lived in Bückeburg

• Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), "Bückeburg" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 415
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Bückeburg" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 720

• Official website (in German)
• Schloss Bückeburg
• Helicopter Museum Bückeburg
• Obernkirchen Children's Choir