a city of the Prussian province of Westphalia, in the government of Minden, and the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 108 square miles, and comprehends two cities, two towns, and thirty-eight villages, with 26,500 inhabitants. The city is built on the river Pader, and contains one Lutheran and four Catholic churches, two ancient monasteries now secularised, and one nunnery. It has 900 houses built in a very antique style, and a population of 6200 persons, chiefly Catholics. It was celebrated for a peculiar kind of linen, to which it gave its name. There are now some extensive breweries and distilleries. Long. 8. 38. 21. E. Lat. 52. 45. 32. N.