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n. a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Bielefeld is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 327,000, it is also the most populous city in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold.
The historical centre of the city is situated north of the Teutoburg Forest line of hills, but modern Bielefeld also incorporates boroughs on the opposite side and on the hills.
Bielefeld is home to a significant number of internationally operating companies, including Dr. Oetker, Gildemeister and Schüco. It has a university and several Fachhochschulen. Bielefeld is also famous for the Bethel Institution, and for the Bielefeld Conspiracy, which satirises conspiracy theories by claiming that Bielefeld does not exist. This concept has been used in the town's marketing and alluded to by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Usage examples of "bielefeld".
The battle of Bielefeld saw the victor Mater in Cologne on the Rhine the following morning?
Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, Hamm, Bielefeld, Hanover, Helmstedt, Magdeburg, to Berlin-Zoological Gardens and Berlin-East Station is about to pull out.
We pursued our way that night to Bielefeld and the next day towards the Rhine.
Town Councillor Buddeberg in Bielefeld was returning with her mother from Marburg in a motor.
Veenkamp, I lived on Bielefeld when it was a stage one colony world, not much different to this planet.
Counsellor von Ledebour, at Bielefeld, and for Colonel von Sobbe, who were to head the insurrection in that part of the country?
From this, I realized that the bombers were flying on a broad front between Bielefeld and Kassel.
Tessa and a woman named Birgit, who works for an independently funded pharma-watch outfit called Hippo based in a small town called Bielefeld in north Germany.
Come soon to Bielefeld, Tessa, it is a beautiful and very secret little town that you will love!
Justin arrived in the little town of Bielefeld near Hanover after two unsettling days of trains.
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne of Bielefeld in Germany--not to be confused with Hippo in my novel--is an independently financed, undermanned body of sane, well-qualified people who struggle to expose the misdeeds of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in its dealings with the Third World.