Cloppenburg

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Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg
Panorama Cloppenburg.jpg
Coat of arms of Cloppenburg
Cloppenburg is located in Germany
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Cloppenburg
Coordinates 52°50′52″N 8°02′38″E / 52.84778°N 8.04389°E / 52.84778; 8.04389
Administration
Country Germany
State Lower Saxony
District Cloppenburg
Mayor Wolfgang Wiese (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area 70.62 km2 (27.27 sq mi)
Elevation 39 m  (128 ft)
Population 32,571 (31 December 2010)
 - Density 461 /km2 (1,195 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate CLP
Postal code 49661
Area code 04471
Website www.cloppenburg.de
Schloss Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch border. Cloppenburg is not far from the A1, the major motorway connecting the Ruhr area to Bremen and Hamburg. Another major road is the federal highway B213 being the shortest link from the Netherlands to the A1 and thus to Bremen and Hamburg.

The town is a centre for the largely agricultural region of southern Oldenburg. It is the administrative centre of the district and there are many schools.

However there is also some industry in town: e.g. Lumberg, (connector systems) and Derby Cycle (bikes).

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Tourism

Cloppenburg Museum

One of Cloppenburg's main tourist attractions is the Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, a collection of old buildings from the region that were dismanteled and reassembled in the museum.

People

  • Werner Baumbach (1916–1953), bomber pilot in World War II
  • (Werner Berges) (born 1941), painter
  • Manfred Zapatka (born 1942), actor
  • Lena Gercke (born 1988), model

  1. ^ "Bevölkerungsfortschreibung" (in German). Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen. 31 December 2009. http://www1.nls.niedersachsen.de/statistik/html/parametereingabe.asp?DT=K1000014&CM=Bev%F6lkerungsfortschreibung. 
Towns and municipalities in Cloppenburg (district)
Barßel | Bösel | Cappeln | Cloppenburg | Emstek | Essen | Friesoythe | Garrel | Lastrup | Lindern | Löningen | Molbergen | Saterland
Coat of arms
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