LIPPSPRINGE  , a

town and watering-place in the Prussian province of Westphalia, lying under the western slope of the Teutoburger Wald, 5 M . N. of Paderborn . Pop . (1905) 3100 . The springs, the Arminius Quelle and the Liborius Quelle, for which it is famous, are saline waters of a temperature of 70° F., and are utilized both for bathing and drinking in cases of pulmonary consumption and chronic diseases of the respiratory organs . The annual number of visitors amounts to about 6000 . Lippspringe is mentioned in chronicles as early as the 9th century, and here in the 13th century the order of the Templars established a stronghold . It received civic rights about 1400 . See Dammann, Der Kurort Lippspringe (Paderborn, 1900) ; Koniger, Lippspringe (Berlin, 1893); and Frey, Lippspringe, Kurort fur Lungenkranke (Paderborn, 1899) .