Bad Münder (also: Bad Münder am Deister; West Low German: Bad Münner) is a town in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the south side of the Deister hills in the Deister-Süntel valley, about northeast of Hamelin. The city with 16 districts has about 17,400 inhabitants (2020). The district Bad Münder is the administrative centre with about 8,000 inhabitants. 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 runner Karl-Martin Hentschel (born 1950), politician, Alliance 90/The Greens Frank Jelinski (born 1953), racing driver References External links Official website (municipal) Official website (tourism) Towns in Lower Saxony Hameln-Pyrmont Spa towns in Germany