Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg
Coat of arms
Cloppenburg
Location of Cloppenburg within Cloppenburg district
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Cloppenburg
Government
• Mayor	Wolfgang Wiese (CDU)
Area
• Total	70.62 km2 (27.27 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	32,985
• Density	470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	49661
Dialling codes	04471
Vehicle registration	CLP
Website	www.cloppenburg.de

Schloss Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. 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 dismantled 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

See also

• Straße der Megalithkultur - tourist route from Osnabrück to Oldenburg via some 33 Megalithic sites.

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site (German)