In 2025, we will celebrate the anniversary of "1250 years of Westphalia".

Together with the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), the LWL-Kulturstiftung is dedicating an extensive cultural program to this anniversary.

44 cultural projects in Westphalia-Lippe

Exhibitions, stage shows, crossover projects, events on building culture, film, regional studies, literature, music as well as hands-on activities and podcasts make up the cultural program for the anniversary year "1250 Years of Westphalia".

Several hundred events

Artists, cultural associations and institutions highlight events and personalities that have shaped Westphalia’s history in events and programs and provide impetus for current and future challenges in the region with current artistic positions.

It is about self-perception and the perception of others, identity, origin, belonging, attitude to life and the future.

Several hundred events and offerings on the stages, in the exhibition halls and cultural venues invite all interested parties to celebrate the Westphalia anniversary – whether young or old, adventurous or searching for meaning, with or without a personal connection to the region.

To mark this anniversary, the LWL-Kulturstiftung is presenting a cultural program for the 1250 Jahre Westfalen anniversary year as part of a funding focus. It is the foundation’s third and largest funding focus to date, which will be followed by a funding focus on POWR! Postcolonial Westphalia-Lippe 2024 and to #2021jlid: Jewish life in Germany 2021 preceded it.