Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg
Cloppenburg
Location of the town of Cloppenburg within Cloppenburg district
Coordinates	52°50′52″N 8°02′38″E / 52.84778°N 8.04389°E / 52.84778; 8.04389Coordinates: 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)[1]
- 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).

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

References

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. 

External links

Media related to Cloppenburg at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site (German)