Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg
Town
Panorama of Cloppenburg
Coat of arms
Location of Cloppenburg within Cloppenburg district
Cloppenburg Cloppenburg
Coordinates: 52°51′N 8°3′E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Cloppenburg
Government
• Mayor	Wolfgang Wiese (CDU)
Area
• Total	70.62 km2 (27.27 sq mi)
Elevation	39 m (128 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	37,056
• Density	520/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	49661
Dialling codes	04471
Vehicle registration	CLP
Website	www.cloppenburg.de

Schloss Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg (German: [ˈklɔpn̩ˌbʊɐ̯k] ) 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).

The town had strong cultural links with St Munchins Parish in Limerick, Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s. During this period many groups of teens/young adults from both areas visited and were hosted by families from the other area. It was a very successful exchange program fostering some lifelong friendships.

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.

Mayors

• Ignatz Feigel (1855–1922), mayor of Cloppenburg and member of parliament
• Bernhard Heukamp (1884 in Cloppenburg - 1946), mayor of Cloppenburg until 1938 and lawyer
• Georg Wessling (1889-1974), mayor of Cloppenburg
• Wolfgang Wiese, mayor of Cloppenburg

People

• Fanny Moran-Olden (1855–1905), opera singer (soprano)
• Georg Wessling (1889–1974), mayor of Cloppenburg and member of parliament
• Werner Baumbach (1916–1953), bomber pilot in World War II
• Jupp Derwall (1927–2007), football player, German football coach, from 1978-1984 manager of the German national football team
• Manfred Zapatka (born 1942), actor, graduating from the Clemens-August-Gymnasium Cloppenburg 1962
• Manfred Hellmann (born 1962), football player
• Lena Gercke (born 1988), model
• Bernd Gerdes (born 1989), football player

See also

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

External links

Media related to Cloppenburg at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site (in German)