a walled town in the Prussian province of Westphalia, government of Minden, and capital of a circle of the same name. It is pleasantly situated at the foot of a hill on the river Lutter, on the line of the Minden and Cologne railway, 26 miles S.W. of Minden. It was formerly the capital of the county of Ravensberg, and is now the centre of the Westphalian linen trade, with extensive bleaching-fields, &c. It has a gymnasium, several schools, and 10,308 inhabitants. The circle in 1849 contained one city, six market-towns, thirty-one villages, and 47,739 inhabitants.