Bad Münder

Bad Münder
Town
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Bad Münder within Hameln-Pyrmont district
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Hameln-Pyrmont
Government
• Mayor	Silvia Nieber (SPD)
Area
• Total	107.69 km2 (41.58 sq mi)
Elevation	119 m (390 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	17,728
• Density	160/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	31848
Dialling codes	05042
Vehicle registration	HM
Website	www.bad-muender.de

Bad Münder (also: Bad Münder am Deister) is a town in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated on the south side the Deister hills in the Deister-Süntel valley, approximatively 15 km northeast of Hamelin.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Georg Philipp Holscher (1792–1852), ophthalmologist
• Christian Ludwig Fröhlich (14 June 1799–11 March 1870), executioner in Hoya
• August Pott (born 1802 in Nettelrede; died 1887), linguist
• Friedrich Wilhelm Nolte (1880–1952), politician (German-Hanoverian Party)
• Leo Wispler (1890–1958), writer
• Hans Piepho (born 1909 in Eimbeckhausen; died 1996), zoologist, Entomologist and university teacher
• Hildegard Falck (born 1949 in Nettelrede), Olympic champion
• Karl-Martin Hentschel (born 1950), politician, Alliance '90/The Greens