Horn-Bad Meinberg is a German city in the Lippe district in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia on the edge of the Teutoburg forest. The district Bad Meinberg is a spa resort. It has 17,263 inhabitants. It was formed in 1970 by merging various other municipalities that had grown together, including Bad Meinberg and Horn- the new entity's original name was Bad Meinberg-Horn, before taking its present name.